Der Nachtwächter

("The Night Watchman") A German comedy in one act by Carl Theodor Körner (1791 – 1813).

The original text

First produced in the Vienna Burgtheater in 1812, also published that year.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as De Nachtwacht inter alia by Salomon Deventer (published in 1844); by G. de Vos (in 1852).

Performance history in South Africa

1825: Performed in Dutch as a two-act comedy in Cape Town by the children's company Tot Oefening en Smaakon 10 September, probably translated/adapted from the German and directed by Joseph Suasso de Lima.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_K%C3%B6rner_(author)

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p 269

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