Entehrt

Entehrt ("dishonoured") is a German play in five acts by E.(Elise) Henle (1831/2-1892)[1].

The play is often wrongly attributed to a C. Henle.

The original text

Called an "Originalschauspiel in fünf Aufzügen" in a publication of the performance text, it is known to have been staged Esslingen circa 1879/80. Published Stuttgart : Greiner, 1879. No earlier records of the text or a performance have been found so far. However, the actual date of composition is uncertain, even though Henle did apparently write a number of works before and after her marriage to Leopold Levi in 1853. So this may have been one of those earlier works, written somewhere between 1850 and 1870.

Translations and adaptations

It was freely translated as Onteerd ("dishonoured"), a Dutch play in four acts, by E. de Sael, according to an extant version of the Dutch text, published by Bakker in Drieborg, 1898.

However there is a record of a Dutch performance of it in South Africa in 1873. Though it may possibly be a mistake, and some other play is meant, it could be a Dutch translation of an early version of the text.

Performance history in South Africa

1873: Said to hav e been performed in Dutch as Onteerd by Aurora II in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 8 April, with a comic dialogue called Een Luidruchtige Jaspartij (A.N.E. Changuion and a one act comedy, Een Jaloerse Dwaas (A.A van der Stempel). (Both Koch and Conradie mention only the former piece, while Bosman mentions only the latter comedy.)

1880: Performed in Dutch as Onteerd by Aurora II in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 3 June, with Een Lastige Overbuur (A.A. van der Stempel) as afterpiece.

Sources

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Henle

Facsimile version of the 1879 German text, Münster : Univ.- und Landesbibliothek, 2016[2]

Joris Baers (1888-1975): Algemeene Tooneelbibliotheek Een historische collectie theaterteksten in de Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 468.

Conradie, Elizabeth. 1934. Hollandse skrywers uit Suid-Afrika. Deel 1 (1652-1875) 'n Kultuur-historische studie. Pretoria, J.H. de Bussy and Cape Town H.A.U.M..[4]

Conradie, Elizabeth, 1949. Hollandse skrywers uit Suid-Afrika. Deel 2 (1875-1905) 'n Kultuur-historische studie. Pretoria, J.H. de Bussy and Cape Town H.A.U.M..[5]

Ingmar Koch. 1997. Het ochtendgloren boven Kaapstad. Nederlandse rederijkers in Kaapstad, Tydskrif vir Nederlands & Afrikaans. (4de Jaargang, Nommer 2. Desember)[6]

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