Siegfried von Lindenberg
A German comedy in five acts by Philipp Ludwig Bunsen (1760 - 1809)
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The original text
A free adaptation by Bunsen of the original German novel by Johann Gottwerth Müller, published in 1781/1782. The play was performed and published in 1790.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch and published as Siegfried van Lindenberg in Amsterdam by Hendrik Gartman, Willem Vermandel, and Jan Willem Smit in 1790/1791. Performed in The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague in 1808.
Performance history in South Africa
1829: Performed by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 24 August with as afterpiece De Engelsche Goederen (Von Kotzebue) The title given by Bosman (1928, p. 242) is the German version Siegfried von Lindenberg, however the performance was most likely in Dutch, using the 1790 Bunsen translation.
Sources
Facsimile of the 1790 German text, Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek[1]
OCLC WorldCat[2]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 242
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