Die Beichte

Die Beichte ("The Confession") is a German one act comedy August Friedrich Ferdinand Von Kotzebue (1761-1819)[1].

The original text

Performed by the Hof-Schauspieler-Gesellschaft and published by Bloch in 1805.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into French as Le Mari Ermite by Jean François Boursault-Malherbe, and presented for tnhe first time at Le Théâtre des Variétés Étrangères on 12 January, 1807 and published by Antoine-Augustyn Renouard in the same year.

Translated from the French version into Dutch by Cornelis van der Vijver as De Echtgenoot Kluizenaar ("the husband hermit"), published in Amsterdam by J. S. van Esveldt-Holtrop, 1809.

Translated into English by an unknown author as The Confession and published 1820.

Performance history in South Africa

1824: Performed in Dutch as De Echtgenoot Kluizenaar by Tot Nut en Vermaak on 28 August in the African Theatre, with De Verkeerde Schaamte (Von Kotzebue) as afterpiece.

1824: Performed in Dutch as De Echtgenoot Kluizenaar by Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense, possibly on 13 November, in the African Theatre, with Tot Middernacht, of List tegen List (Dumaniant).

Sources

Facsimile of the German text, Google Books[2]

Facsimile of the French text, Google Bookshttps://books.google.co.za/books?id=1ao7AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Facsimile of the Dutch text, Google Books[3]

Facsimile of the English text, Google Books[4]

Gerd Aage Gillhoff, 2013, The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876 , Google Books[5]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp 235,

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