Die Gefährliche Nachbarschaft

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("The dangerous neighbourhood")A one act comedy by August von Kotzebue.

The original text

Orignally dated 1805, published in Vienna by Johann Baptist Wallishausser in 1806. Later in the 19th century appeared under the title Die Gefährliche Nachbarschaft oder Schneider Fips

In 1815 an operatic version of it was produced in Vienna by composer Johann Friedrich Stein.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch by J.S. van Esveldt Holtrop as De Gevaarlijke Buurman (("The dangerous neighbour")in 1805. (Sometinmes written De Gevaarlyke Buurman in South Africa.)


Performance history in South Africa

Sources

J.A. Worp. 1907. Geschiedenis van het drama en van het tooneel in Nederland. Deel 2. Wolters, Groningen: p.465[1]

Facsimile of the original text published in Vienna, 1806: Google Books[2]

http://operadata.stanford.edu/?f%5BcomposerSort_query%5D%5B%5D=s_composers&f%5Bcountry_facet%5D%5B%5D=Austria&f%5BlibrettistSort_facet%5D%5B%5D=Kotzebue%2C+August+von

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 246,


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