Learned collection on German-language theater

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Ms. Coll. 638
Finding aid prepared by Violet Lutz.
Last updated on July 25, 2014.
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
2007
Table of Contents
Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3
Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................4
Scope and Contents..................................................................................................................................... 19
Administrative Information......................................................................................................................... 24
Controlled Access Headings........................................................................................................................24
Other Finding Aids...................................................................................................................................... 25
Collection Inventory.................................................................................................................................... 26
Theater Rehearsal Materials.................................................................................................................. 26
Librettos................................................................................................................................................. 29
Catalog of Theodor Bloch's Theater Lending Library, Philadelphia.................................................... 30
Musical Scores....................................................................................................................................... 31
Playbills..................................................................................................................................................33
Theater Newspapers...............................................................................................................................35
Oversized Materials (other than newspapers). 1 map drawer...............................................................37
Appendix 1: List of Theater Venues Represented in the Learned Collection.......................................40
Appendix 2: List of Newspaper Advertisements for Performances in Turner Halle, 1873-1875..........42
Index to Playbills: Chronological Listing............................................................................................. 45
Index to Theater Newspapers: Chronological Listing.......................................................................... 67
Author/Title Index to Playbills and Theater Newspapers................................................................... 105
Index of Works by Unidentified Authors........................................................................................... 160
Index by Composer Name...................................................................................................................161
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Summary Information
Repository
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare
Books and Manuscripts
Creator
Learned, Marion Dexter, 1857-1917
Title
Call number
Ms. Coll. 638
Date [bulk]
1873-1895
Date [inclusive]
1832-1898
Extent
35 boxes (+ 2 map drawers)
Language
German
Language note
In German with some English.
Abstract
Comprises material relating to the production of German-language
plays in Philadelphia, predominantly in the last quarter of the nineteenth
century. Material includes printed and manuscript plays with annotations,
which served as prompt books; manuscript scenarios; lists of props, as
well as a few actual props; role books; librettos; musical scores; playbills;
and selected issues of German-language theater newspapers published
in Philadelphia. Also includes a catalog of the Theater-Leihbibliothek,
handwritten by Theodor Bloch, owner of the lending library.
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Cite as:
Learned collection on German-language theater, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books
and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Biography/History
German-Language Theater in Philadelphia: A Historical Sketch
In the period between 1830 and 1930, 5.9 million German immigrants arrived in the United States,
comprising 15.7% of all immigrants arriving.[1] One might, further, speak of a "mid-nineteenth century
character" of this German immigration: about one-third of German immigrants over those one hundred
years arrived between 1850 and 1869, during which time German immigrants constituted fully 35%
of the total number of immigrants arriving.[2] On the other hand, more German immigrants arrived in
the 1880s––about 1.4 million––than during any other decade.[3] The highest peaks of annual German
immigration during the period were reached in 1854 and 1882.[4]
German emigration to the United States famously began in Pennsylvania, with Francis Daniel Pastorius
leading a group of German Mennonites and Quakers in the founding of Germantown, near Philadelphia,
in 1683. The Middle Atlantic region in general, and particularly Pennsylvania, remained a favored
destination of German settlement in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the focus of
German settlement shifted westward and broadened significantly, with areas of settlement expanding into
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, as well as Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. There were also significant settlements in Louisiana, Texas, Colorado,
California, and Washington.[5] But even with this shift, in 1880, Philadelphia, which was at that time
the second largest city in the United States, had a German-born population of 55,769––considerably
larger, in absolute terms, than the German-born populations of either Cincinnati or Milwaukee, and
slightly larger than that of St. Louis. Only New York and Chicago had larger populations of German-born
immigrants.[6] German-born Philadelphians made up 6.6% of the city's total population. Considering the
German-born in combination with those who were the children of German immigrants, one can speak of
Philadelphians of 'German stock' as amounting to 16.2% of the city's population in 1880. (Only the Irish
made up a larger immigrant group in Philadelphia at that time.)[7]
Faced with the dilemmas of assimilation, German Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century
debated the future of the 'German element' in American culture.[8] Love of the arts, especially music and
theater, had long been a strong aspect of German social life, and so it was often through the expression of
these cultural interests that German-American life distinguished itself. In the––perhaps filio-pietistic––
formulation of the eminent German-American scholar Albert Bernhardt Faust: "The social influence
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of the German element in the United States consists in the emphasis laid upon the cultivation of those
arts and habits which divert from the narrow path of selfish interest or material gain, and which elevate,
ennoble, and increase the joy of living."[9] As was the case for other immigrant groups in the nineteenth
century, and for American life in general, German-American life was much bound up with participation
in voluntary associations, known in German as Vereine.[10] Philadelphia was by some measures in the
forefront of German cultural expression in this regard. The first German-American singing society in
the country, the Männerchor, was founded in Philadelphia on 15 December 1835. The Turngemeinde
Philadelphia, formally organized on 15 May 1849, was the fourth in a succession of such Turnvereine, or
gymnastic associations, that had begun to form in the United States in 1848.[11] Both types of Vereine
were reminiscent of traditional communal life in Germany.
The support of German-language theater on a long-term basis was an often elusive goal for enterprising
German-American community members in the mid to late nineteenth century. A German theater director
and immigrant from Hamburg, Heinrich Börnstein, when undertaking to establish a German theater in St.
Louis in 1858––what eventually opened the following fall as the St. Louis Opernhaus––tried to kindle
enthusiasm for the new project among his compatriots by reminding them that, back in Germany, even
a city with a population of only 12-15,000 inhabitants would usually have a theater of above-average
quality, and that cities of 30-50,000 would, as a matter of course, boast a good, well-established theater
presenting both operas and plays. Speculating that there were some 60,000 German-speaking residents of
St. Louis, Börnstein asserted that one should be able to reckon at least 5%, or 3,000, of them as regular
once-a-week theater-goers––and, if such were the case, then a good German theater was a realizable goal:
"wir haben von Anfang an das feste Vertrauen gehabt, dass die deutsche Bevölkerung von St. Louis ihr
eigenes deutsches Theater haben und erhalten könne, und in diesem Vertrauen haben wir gehandelt" (we
were convinced from the beginning that the German population of St. Louis could have and maintain its
own German theater, and we have acted in this conviction).[12]
By 1880, if not before, Philadelphia presumably had the critical mass of culturally engaged German
speakers that Börnstein was talking about. Early efforts to provide some kind of ongoing Germanlanguage theatrical performances in Philadelphia were the work of Vereine who joined together to strive
for this goal. German plays had been performed on American stages in English translation beginning
as early as 1795, with a production of Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm in Charleston, South Carolina,
and Schiller's Die Räuber, in New York, followed up by "a veritable flood of German plays descending
upon the American stage" by the popular German playwright August von Kotzebue. But 1830 is the
landmark year in which the first documented performances were given in the German language––in the
Washington Theater on Old York Road, in Philadelphia, by a company of actors calling themselves the
German Amateur Theatrical Society.[13]
A fairly continuous history of German-language performances in Philadelphia begins in 1840, with the
formation of the Deutsche Unterhaltungsverein, which set as its mission the "Pflege der dramatischen
Kunst" (the fostering of the dramatic arts), and gave several performances over the next year or two.
[14] In May 1848, another amateur troop, under the direction of W. Herrmann and W. Deetz, gave
performances that were evidently of good quality but poorly attended, judging by the lament in the pages
of the Philadelphia newspaper Freie Presse, on 31 May. The writer conveys a sense of a strong German
cultural life in Philadelphia in that era, while expressing disappointment that the degree of interest shown
in the fledgling theater falls so far short of high-minded expectations brought from the German homeland:
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Hier, wo das deutsche Leben mehr überwiegend als vielleicht in irgend einer Stadt vorherrscht,
sollte man meinen, könnte nichts erwünschter kommen, als die schönen Abendunterhaltungen
eines guten Theaters, das man in Deutschland in der kleinsten Provinzial-Stadt für eine gewisse
Zeit im Jahre ganz bestimmt findet. Die Schauspieler spielen im allgemeinen gut und einige davon
leisten wirklich Auszergewöhnliches. Wenn solch eine Gesellschaft vor leeren Bänken spielen
muss, dann muss man an dem allgemeinen Sinn für gediegene Unterhaltung unter den Deutschen
verzweifeln.
(Here, where German life predominates perhaps more than in any other city, one would think
that nothing could be as desirable as the fine evening entertainment provided by a good theater,
something that one finds without fail in even the smallest provincial city in Germany for a certain
period in the year. The actors generally give a good performance, and a few of them can really be
credited with extraordinary achievements. When a company like this has to play to empty seats,
then one must begin to despair of the basic sense for quality entertainment among the Germans.)
[15]
Around this time, various amateur theater associations (Liebhaber-Theater) performed sporadically, with
greater or lesser success, at several venues in Philadelphia, including Franklin-Halle, on Sixth Street
between Arch and Race, and the Arch Street Hall, near the Arch Street Theater (at Sixth Street). The
lack of a suitable building was a hindrance. The repertoire sometimes left much to be desired, with the
comedies of Kotzebue predominating at first.[16]
In C. F. Huch's account of German theater in Philadelphia, he views as welcome progress the opening
in August 1855 of a "proper German theater with daily performances," under the competent direction
of Wilhelm Böttner. That troop performed at first in the Melodeon, on Chestnut Street above Sixth,
and later Böttner arranged to rent the City Museum, on Callowhill Street below Fifth, a church that
had been renovated for use as a theater.[17] In the 1856-1857 season, Böttner and Bruno Berndt were
joint directors, and in summer to fall 1857, Böttner and Serges. After Böttner left Philadelphia for New
Orleans at the end of 1857, the German theater was reopened for another season in August 1858, under
the joint direction of Meaubert and Josue. The City Museum was proving inadequate as a venue, and there
was a plan at the beginning of 1859 to have a proper theater built, but the current performances were so
unprofitable that the plan was dropped. Performances continued to be given in the same venue in 1859,
under Josue's direction.[18]
Huch reports that plays performed in the years from 1855 to 1859 included the following authors and
titles: Raimund ( Der Verschwender; Der Alpenkönig), Nestroy ( Till Eulenspiegel; Einen Jux will
er sich machen; Der böse Geist Lumpazivavagabundus; Zu ebener Erde und erster Stock), Kleist (
Käthchen von Heilbronn), Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer ( Der Glöckner von Notre Dame; Hinko), Louis
Schneider ( Kean; Die eiserne Maske), August von Kotzebue ( Der Wirrwarr; Menschenhass und
Reue), Roderich Benedix ( Die drei Junggesellen), Gustav Freytag ( Die Journalisten), Friedrich
Adami ( Königin Margot und die Hugenotten), Pius Alexander Wolff ( Preciosa), August Weirauch (
Wenn Leute Geld haben), Carl Elmar ( Unter der Erde), and Friedrich Kaiser ( Stadt und Land). Every
season's program included a number of plays from Schiller ( Wilhelm Tell; Die Räuber; Maria Stuart;
Kabale und Liebe; Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua), and one or more plays (in translation) from
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Shakespeare ( Hamlet; Othello; Viel Lärm um Nichts). A total of 177 plays were performed in the
years 1855 and 1856 together, and 121 in 1859 alone.[19]
In 1859, the 100th anniversary of Schiller's birth, on 10 November, was celebrated by offering
performances of his plays Kabale und Liebe and Wilhelm Tell, on the 10th and the 11th. (The
performance of plays by Schiller in November in honor of his birthday was a recurring custom in the
German-language theater in Philadelphia throughout the coming decades.) Attendance was good for those
performances but so poor for the rest of the year that the theater was closed down by the management in
January 1860, only to re-open again some days later at the initiative of the actors. The actors valiantly
carried on with performances but suffered under the same hindrances that German theater companies had
battled for years: "lack of competent direction, of a well suited building, and of sufficient financial means
to maintain the theater."[20]
In 1858 the Turngemeinde Philadelphia purchased a building on N. Third Street and then, in 1860, the
adjacent property and, beginning in June of that year, theatrical performances alternating with concerts
were offered in what was known as Turner-Halle, for two periods during the year, as a summer and a
winter theater.[21]
With the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861––the beginning of the American Civil War––the German
theater entered another period of uncertainty. Actors were also among those who joined the military.[22]
During the Civil War era, modest undertakings provided for performances at various venues, including
Turner-Halle; Hermann-Halle, on Coates Street (later known as Fairmount Avenue) above Second
Street; Vollmer and Born's Aktien-Bierhalle, on Third Street; and, in summer, Engel and Wolf's Farm.
Notable success was achieved by Gustav Ostermann, the son-in-law of Wilhelm Böttner, who directed
a theater troop in Hermann-Halle, from November 1862 to March 1863, under the name Odeon. After
that, Ostermann joined his efforts with those of A. Scherzer, who had been leading a different troop at the
Melodeon on Callowhill Street, and they continued productions at the latter venue through the summer.
[23]
The Callowhill Street Theater opened in August 1863 under the direction of August W. Rabe and
Nettelbladt, who decided not long afterwards that they lacked enough support to succeed. By the end of
September, G. Töpfer and Th. Hanel had taken over the management and, under the name Stadttheater,
performances continued to be given at that venue until spring 1864.[24] (The Callowhill Street Theater
later burned down, in 1868, and Concordia-Halle, also a venue for theatrical performances and concerts,
was built on the same site.)[25]
In April 1864, a German-language performance of Hamlet was given at the Academy of Music in honor
of the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Opera companies from Germany also made
periodic guest appearances at either the Academy of Music or at the Chestnut Street Theater in 1863 to
1865, 1867, and 1869.[26]
In fall 1864 previous venues for German theater were put to use again under new rubrics: the
Volkstheater, co-directed by Serges and Reicher, operated in Hermann-Halle, from September to October;
and the Vestvali-Lund-Theater, under the direction of Ivan C. Michels, opened in September at the former
Stadttheater, or Melodeon (Callowhill Street), and continued to give performances through April 1865.
With the close of that season, there was no stable venue offering German theater for some months.[27]
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In 1866 German-language plays were offered in Klumpp's Turner-Halle and in Heinrich Hornung's
Kensington-Halle (the latter located at the corner of Second Street and Germantown Avenue), but the
productions were apparently of modest aim and middling quality.[28] Higher standards were met in
guest performances at the Callowhill Street Theater by acting troops visiting from German theaters in
New York, in 1866 and 1867. An open air theater opened in summer 1867 under the name KensingtonVolksgarten-Theater (at Third Street and Germantown Avenue), run by C. Klein and under the direction
of J. Riedel.[29]
At the beginning of 1868, Hornung also took over management of Turner-Halle, and for a period
of months presided over productions at the two venues, before deciding to consolidate his efforts in
more challenging productions at Turner-Halle, where in August 1868 productions began with William
Gerlach as superintendent, Martin Hagemann as director, and Theodor Schaumberg as music director.
[30] (German-language performances continued to be offered in Turner-Halle under various rubrics
throughout the 1870s.)
At this time, focused efforts were again made to develop a plan for securing a building as a permanent
home for a German theater. A stock company with that aim had been chartered back in 1859, but for
whatever reasons did not accomplish its goal. In 1867, at the meeting of an honorary committee related to
the tenth annual Sängerfest (singing festival), a special committee was formed whose aim, again, was to
found a stock company, for the purpose of financing not only the acquisition of a property for the theater
but also the steady engagement of an acting troop and the ongoing costs.[31] Such a stock company was
indeed incorporated, under the name "The German Theater of Philadelphia," on 18 March 1868, with
Theodore A. Demmé as president and Charles Borm as treasurer. In 1870, the stock company purchased
three houses on the northwest corner of Seventh Street and Vine. However, the financial arrangements
did not go as planned, and the ultimate outcome was that after several years the houses had to be sold far
below the purchase price, and the shareholders lost all of their investment.[32]
In the interim when the dealings of the stock company were still being worked out, attempts were made
to establish a provisional German theater offering performances on a steady basis. From November
1869 to February 1870, a troop of actors performed at a location on the northeast corner of Franklin and
Coates Street (the latter later known as Fairmount Avenue; the site, several years later, of Robert Tagg's
Maennerchor Hall). The artistic director was Karl von Jendersky, the director ( Regisseur) Heinrich
Döbelin, and the music director Heinrich Greim. After financial failure, a new attempt, and then a fire,
performances were moved to Concordia-Halle (the new building at the site of the former Callowhill Street
Theater). During the summer of 1870, Scherzer undertook improvements to the stage in Concordia-Halle
and, in the fall, opened the hall as the Philadelphia Stadt-Theater, with Eduard Härting directing plays
and Theodor Schaumberg as Kapellmeister. Since that venue was also rented for balls, German-language
plays were offered with some interruptions.[33]
After only occasional performances there in 1871, German-language plays were again performed in
Concordia-Halle for significant stretches in 1872 to 1874, sometimes under the rubric of Stadt-Theater.
Heinrich Maret directed productions there in February and in April 1872; in March he had moved his
troop to a theater that he had rented on N. Seventh Street. In December 1872, the Stadt-Theater in
Concordia-Halle opened under the general direction of Rudolf Beckier, with J.W. Jost as music director.
The Stadt-Theater continued in the fall of 1873 with Moritz Hahn as both general director and director of
plays ( Regisseur), and Simon Hassler as music director. In the early months of 1874 there was a series of
Sunday performances.[34]
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From early 1871 until January 1874, German-language plays were also performed in Turner-Halle on
a regular basis, under the directorship of Georg Brandt. The plays included: Wallensteins Lager and
Wilhelm Tell, by Schiller; Othello, by Shakespeare; Nacht und Morgen, by Birch-Pfeiffer; Die
Karlsschüler and Unser Prinz Friedrich, by Heinrich Laube; Inspektor Bräsig, by Theodor Gassmann
and J. Krüger; Der Meineidbauer, by Ludwig Anzengruber; Die Schöppenstädter, by Rudolf Kneisel;
Washington, der Befreier Nordamerikas, by Georg Schönfeldt; and Die Spitzenkönigin, by Hugo Müller
and Adolph L'Arronge. After Brandt's departure, the Turngemeinde undertook its own productions of
German-language plays in Turner-Halle, from April to August 1874, with L. Holfelder and Alexander
Varena serving as directors, and F. Losse conducting the orchestra.[35]
In September 1874, the management of Turner-Halle was assumed by Henry Oberkirsch and Gottlob
Hammer, with L. Holfelder continuing in the capacity of director and Theodor Schaumberg becoming
music director once again (as he had been earlier). Oberkirsch and Hammer led the productions in TurnerHalle until 1877, when Holfelder and August Schmidt took over.[36]
The further path on which Hammer and Oberkirsch embarked proved to be a kind of watershed in the
history of German-language theater in Philadelphia. In August 1877 they leased Ladner's Military Hall, at
528-532 N. Third Street (near the intersection with Spring Garden), and began to produce performances
there under the name Germania Theater.[37] A theater newspaper, Die Bühne, containing the Germania's
official program, began to appear on 19 April 1878.[38] Around April 1881, the hall underwent a major
renovation and was rebuilt as a proper theater. It reopened in its new garb in September 1881.[39] At
what became its permanent site, Germania Theater remained in existence for over 17 years, until early
1895.
Gottlob Hammer served as the first general director of the theater. Aside from his role in the theater,
Hammer was a businessman dealing in Rhine wines. He was from Reutlingen, in the state of
Württemberg, Germany, and had emigrated to the United States in 1865. His partner in the founding of
Germania Theater, Henry Oberkirsch, served as the music director. Oberkirsch was also a music teacher
and freelance conductor.[40] Heinrich Maret served as the first director of plays ( Regisseur). Hammer
and Oberkirsch jointly led the theater until spring 1882.
Germania Theater employed a resident troop of actors and actresses for each season, and there would
also be a number of guest appearances by additional actors and actresses during the season. Performances
were held nearly every day of the week. An advertisement that Hammer ran in the Philadelphia Tageblatt
pithily conveyed the theater's raison d'être: "Jeden Abend deutsche Theater-Vorstellung von einem guten
Künstler-Personal" (A German theatrical performance every evening, by a fine staff of artists).[41] As
had been the custom earlier, Sunday performances were often billed under the rubric "Sacred Concert," in
a nod to conservative or nativist sentiment that frowned upon the operation of the theater on the Christian
Sabbath. However, in some years, laws passed in Philadelphia kept the theater closed on Sundays.[42]
Throughout the years of its existence Germania Theater continued to publish its own newspaper, as
the official theater program. At first (as mentioned above) titled Die Bühne, it was called Germania
Theater Zeitung for a number of years from 1882 on; after 1890 the masthead simply displayed the
name of the theater.[43] The newspaper was usually a four-sided publication issued several times a
week, carrying numerous advertisements of local businesses. In addition to the theater's program of
plays, operas, and operettas, the paper included announcements about lectures, club meetings, balls, and
festivals. In its first incarnation as Die Bühne, it also had a varied content beyond these basics, including
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news items (often theater-related news in the widest sense), anecdotes, jokes, and poems. Initially, in
1878, the paper was printed in batches of 3,000 copies, and it was handed out to patrons at performances,
between acts.[44] According to a message in the first issue from the editors/publishers, Oberkirsch and
Wolf, the paper was also mailed free of charge to subscribers. They aspired for it to be viewed as an
"Unterhaltungsblatt" (entertainment publication) that readers would save for a while, rather than just toss
aside––a cut above "gewöhnliche Anzeigezettel" (ordinary announcement flyers). Although the paper was
otherwise in German, it carried, in the publisher's box, the English-language boast: "The best Advertising
Medium in the City and Suburbs." Later on, in fall 1882, under the editorship of Adolph Stein, an
English-language message with a different slant began to appear in the publisher's box: "Guaranteed
circulation 30,000 copies per month."
After the tenure of Hammer and Oberkirsch, Alexander Kost took the helm of the theater. A comic actor
who had previously performed in Chicago, Kost joined Germania's cast in 1878, and in the 1879-1880
season was responsible for directing farces and operettas (with another director responsible for dramas
and comedies). In 1881 and early 1882, he was director at the newly opened Concordia OperettenTheater, run by Robert Tagg. Kost directed Germania Theater from late 1882 until spring 1885, and then
moved to Concordia-Halle, where he headed a troop under the name Thalia Theater, which seems to have
been run on a model comparable to the Germania, for the season from fall 1885 to spring 1886.[45]
Meanwhile Alexander Wurster had taken over the directorship of Germania Theater in fall 1885, and
he led the theater until spring 1891. Wurster had wide experience in German theater in the United
States. He had previously directed the New Chicago Theater (in Chicago), which closed in 1878;
and had also been active in St. Louis, directing Sunday performances for one season at the Olympic
Theater, in 1876 to 1877; and for a regular season at the Apollo Theater in 1881 to 1882.[46] As the
new director, Wurster addressed a message to the theater's "Freunde und Gönner" (friends and patrons)
in the 24 October 1885 issue of Germania Theater Zeitung. While expressing his gratitude for what he
optimistically characterizes as attendance increasing with each day ("den von Tag zu Tag sich steigernden
Besuch"), he dubs his new post a 'difficult undertaking' ("schwierigen Unternehmen"), and is concerned
to elicit continuing support. He introduces himself as a director with an artistic mission––"fortwährend
bestrebt, dem geehrten kunstsinnigen Deutschthum dieser Stadt nur wirklich gediegene Vorstellungen
zu bieten, kurz in dem Germania-Theater eine Bühne zu schaffen, würdig der deutschen Kunst und dem
Deutschthum Philadelphia's zur Ehre und zum Vergnügen" (constantly striving to offer the venerable,
art-loving German public of this city only sterling-quality performances, in short to create in Germania
Theater a stage worthy of German art and of Philadelphia’s German constituency, to its honor and for its
amusement).[47]
That week the theater was offering performances every day from Monday through Saturday, with
three plays featured: Die Anna-Lise, by Hermann Hersch, a drama ( Schauspiel); and two comedies (
Lustspiele), Die Anti-Xantippe, oder: Krieg der Frauen, by Rudolf Kneisel, and Das Stiftungsfest, by
Gustav von Moser. The program is fairly representative: Die Anna-Lise was something of a perennial
favorite; and Kneisel and Moser were two of the most consistently represented authors on the theater's
program over the years.
Huch characterizes Wurster's tenure in glowing terms as "in künstlerischer Beziehung höchst
erfolgreich" (highly successful in an artistic sense).[48] A souvenir program issued by Germania Theater
in April 1890, commemorating five seasons, 1885-1890, under Wurster's management, records that
a total of 1,000 performances were given, averaging about 200 performances of 69 different plays
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each year, during a theater season that ran from September to April. The repertoire during those years
included a total of 257 plays by 108 different authors. The genres most represented were: Posse,
Lustspiel, Schauspiel, Volksstück, and Schwank. Farces ( Possen) and comedies ( Lustspiele)
typically accounted for nearly half of the repertoire. The authors with the greatest representation of works
were Gustav von Moser (17 titles) and Wilhelm Mannstädt (16 titles). Other authors with considerable
representation (from 8 to 13 titles) were: Eduard Jacobson, Rudolph Kneisel, Franz von Schönthan,
Adolph L'Arronge, Heinrich Wilken, Leon Treptow, and Friedrich Schiller.[49]
Following Wurster's departure in 1891, the Germania had several directors in quick succession––Georg
Heinemann, Adolf Binkert, and Jos. E. Metzger––and descended increasingly into financial difficulties
and managerial disarray, until it finally closed around March 1895. The last extant theater newspaper,
dated for the week beginning 28 February 1895, advertises performances for Tuesday 5 March through
Saturday 9 March. For that week the featured plays were Hermann Sudermann's Die Ehre, and Schiller's
Die Räuber.[50]
Despite the relatively long life of Germania Theater, and its embodiment of impressive energies and
talent, as with all things that eventually pass away, it was vulnerable to being viewed in retrospect as
having fallen short. Writing in 1926, the Lutheran pastor Georg von Bosse, who had emigrated to the
United States from Germany in 1889, recalled the nineteenth-century history of German theater in
Philadelphia as little more than a blank page strewn with ineffectual marks: "Das deutsche Theater ist wie
in anderen Städten so auch in Philadelphia stets ein Schmerzenskind gewesen. Manche Anläufe zu einem
ständigen deutschen Theater sind gemacht und keiner war erfolgreich" (As in other cities, German theater
in Philadelphia has always been a child of misery. Some attempts at a permanent German theater have
been made, but none was successful).[51]
By the time that Bosse was writing, yet another substantial enterprise had come and gone. Following the
demise of Germania Theater, performances of German-language plays in Philadelphia were again held at
various venues, such as Maennerchor Hall or the Arch Street Theater. The wish to have a more permanent
venue once again resurfaced and money was raised to purchase a building at Franklin Street and Girard
Avenue, which was then rebuilt, and opened in 1905 as the Deutsche Theater, or German Theatre, under
the directorship of Max Hanisch, a German-speaking immigrant from St. Petersburg via Germany.[52]
Ushered into life, as Bosse notes, with "schönen Hoffnungen" (fine hopes), that new German theater
remained in existence for only about five or six years. In 1911 it was replaced by a Yiddish theater called
the American; and after 1921 it was known as the Astor––a moving picture house.[53]
A Biographical Sketch of Theodor Bloch
(born Prussia, November 1832; died after 1900)
Most of the theater rehearsal materials contained in Series I of the Learned Collection comprise items
that belonged to Theodor Bloch, a German immigrant who was active in German-language theater in
Philadelphia from approximately the mid 1860s until at least 1895.[54] Bloch appears as an actor in the
casts of some plays in the period from 1873 to 1879.[55] Later, he continued to be closely associated with
the theater company of Germania Theater. Various souvenir programs of Germania Theater reflecting
the theater seasons from fall 1885 to spring 1891 indicate that during this time Bloch served steadily as
prompter ( Souffleur) through four theater seasons: 1887-1888, 1888-1889, 1889-1890 and 1890-1891. On
28 April 1887, a special extra performance ("Große Extra-Vorstellung") of the play Der Bucklige, oder:
Die Macht der Arbeit, by C. A. Paul, at Germania Theater, is advertised on a playbill as having been
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arranged by Bloch in celebration of his 25th anniversary in the theater ("arrangirt von Theodor Bloch zur
Feier seiner 25jährigen Bühnenwirksamkeit"). Further insight about Bloch's contributions to the theater is
provided by the souvenir program produced in commemoration of Germania Theater's seasons from fall
1885 to spring 1890. Bloch is credited as having compiled the cumulative information about the theater’s
repertoire contained in the program, and is said to have been keeping detailed records about the theater for
25 years.[56]
Many items in Series I, including published copies of plays that have been annotated as prompt books,
as well as role books (actors' scripts), are labeled as the property of Theodor Bloch. Evidence from some
of the files indicates that Bloch began systematically assembling theater rehearsal materials, and taking
responsibility for them, with a view to later use, as early as 1873. By fall 1880 he had organized his
collection of materials into a formal theater lending library, and began to advertise his operation in the
theater newspaper of Germania Theater. Bloch's advertisement for his library appears regularly in the
newspaper from that time on, and it appears in the last extant issue of the newspaper, in February 1895.
[57] The Learned Collection contains a catalog for Bloch's library, dated by him 1886, which provides a
detailed inventory and describes lending conditions.[58]
Bloch's home and business address was 442 N. Fourth Street, Philadelphia, more or less around the block
from Germania Theater, at 528-532 N. Third Street. Aside from his involvement in the theater, Bloch was
a businessman who ran a gold and silver refining business. Advertisements for his business––in which he
seeks to purchase old gold and silver––can be found in the newspapers of Germania Theater from the first
issue on.
Records about Theodor Bloch's household at 442 N. Fourth Street were found in the United States census
of 1870, 1880, and 1900. His birthplace is given as Prussia. In the 1880 census the birthplace of both his
mother and his father is said to be Prussia as well. The census of 1900 gives his date of birth as November
1832, and the year of his emigration as 1861. The passenger lists at Castle Garden show that a "Theo.
Block," aged 29, arrived on the ship Bremen on 20 August 1861. (In the census of 1900, the last name is
also spelled "Block.") His occupation is given as merchant, and his last place of residence Berlin. A date
of death could not be found.
According to the census records, Bloch was married to Marie (or Mary) Bloch, who was born in
September 1840 in Austria, and emigrated to the United States in 1855. She and Theodor married around
1865 (at the census of 1900, they had been married 35 years).
Based on the census records, it appears that Theodor and Marie Bloch did not have any children of their
own but may have, in some capacity, raised and cared for Henry Frank and Matilda Frank, who both also
participated in the German theater. In the census of 1870, two children, Henry and Matilda, aged 15 and
10, respectively, are listed as part of the Bloch household, with no other family name given. However, in
the census of 1880, the two young people are listed as Henry Frank and Matilda Frank, aged 24 and 19,
respectively, as part of a separate household headed by Henry Frank, at the same house number as Bloch,
442 N. Fourth Street. In that census an Emma Frank, aged 21, is also listed as part of the Frank household.
Henry (or Heinrich) Frank appears in casts of plays beginning around 1873, and Mathilda ("Tilly") Frank
beginning in 1878.[59] Henry Frank edited the newspaper of Germania Theater from 1885 to 1892, and
was also an editor and publisher in a more general capacity in Philadelphia, with a branch office in Sea
Isle City, N.J. He was the author of the book Das heutige Philadelphia, published in 1885.[60]
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It is possible that Theodor Bloch made a trip back to Germany around or preceding the summer of 1873,
and that he may have taken the opportunity then to acquire plays for use in the theater in Philadelphia.
The summer of 1873 is a date of seeming significance in the context of the theater rehearsal materials
of Series I. The earliest documentation of specific performances in Philadelphia is provided by some
clippings of newspaper advertisements for performances of plays in Turner-Halle from 1873 to 1875.
The earliest of such clippings, which are found pasted to the inside front covers of some published copies
of plays, is dated 13 August 1873.[61] One might juxtapose this circumstance with some evidence from
within the collection that Bloch may have traveled back to Germany after his original emigration. First,
a playbill from the Residenz-Theater in Berlin, dated 2 June 1873, advertising a performance of Die
alten Junggesellen, a German translation of the French play Les vieux garçons, by Victorien Sardou,
was found pasted to the inside front cover of a published copy of Die Tage der Erkenntniss––a German
version, by Forster, of the same play by Sardou––which was labeled on its cover as the property of
Bloch (the title is also listed in the 1886 catalog of Bloch's theater lending library). It is possible that
Bloch himself attended the performance of the play in Berlin and saved the playbill.[62] Second, the
name Theodor Bloch is recorded on a form contained in a published copy of Arthur Müller's Die Hexe
von Leonberg, documenting that Bloch paid a fee of 15 Thaler for purchase of the book, which is an
edition sold especially for the stages, with the publication date 1870 (the form itself is not dated).[63] It
is interesting that one finds an immigration record at Castle Garden in 1873 that fits Bloch's profile: a
Theodor Bloch, merchant, aged 41, arrived on the ship Silesia on 10 July 1873, with his origin given as
"USA," indicating that he was an immigrant already established in the United States.[64]
The circumstantial evidence suggesting that Bloch may have made a trip back to Germany around 1873
remains inconclusive. However, it can be said that, for whatever reason, his activities in producing and/or
saving rehearsal materials for further use, as documented within the collection, appear to begin in earnest
around August 1873.
After the closing of Germania Theater, around March 1895, there is no direct evidence of Bloch's possible
continuing activities in connection with German-language theater. However, theater rehearsal materials
from his lending library were evidently used to prepare performances of two plays at Harmonie Hall in
December 1897.[65]
A Biographical Note on Marion Dexter Learned (1857-1917)
Marion Dexter Learned was born near Dover, Delaware, of parents of English and Welsh heritage.
After graduating from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he served for four years as the chair
of ancient and modern languages at Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He went on to
pursue graduate work in German at Johns Hopkins University, and in the course of his studies visited
Germany for the first time in 1885, when he studied for several months at the University of Leipzig.
He received a Ph.D. in German from Johns Hopkins in 1887, and subsequently taught there, eventually
reaching the rank of associate professor of German. In 1895, Learned moved to the University of
Pennsylvania, where he became professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and also served as the
department's first chair. German-American cultural intersections were a major area of Learned's scholarly
interest. His publications included, for example, The Pennsylvania German Dialect (1889), "Anfänge
der deutschen Kultur in Amerika" (1893), The German American Turner Lyric (1897), and The Life of
Francis Daniel Pastorius (1908). He gave academic addresses on such topics such as "German Influence
in America" (Baltimore, 1892-1893), "German as a Culture Element in American Education" (Cincinnati,
1898) and "The Turner as Champions of American Liberty" (Allegheny, Pa., circa 1900). Learned was
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the founder, in 1897, of the monograph series Americana Germanica, and later, of the related German
American Annals, both devoted to the comparative study of the historical, literary, linguistic, and other
cultural relations of Germany and America. Among his many other accomplishments and honors, Learned
was the organizer of the Association of Teachers of German in Pennsylvania; served as president of the
National German-American Teachers Alliance ( Nationaler Deutsch-Amerikanischer Lehrerbund), from
1899 to 1901; and helped to found the German-American Historical Society, in 1901.
It is not known whether Professor Learned was personally acquainted with Theodor Bloch, or exactly
how he came to acquire the items that today comprise the Learned Collection on German-Language
Theater. It is interesting to note that Learned arrived in Philadelphia at just around the time that Germania
Theater finally closed. Given Learned's scholarly interests, it seems likely that he would have had
personal contact with some members of the German theater milieu in Philadelphia.
Endnotes (Biography/History)
[1] Frederick C. Luebke, "Patterns of German Settlement in the U.S. and Brazil," in Germans in the New
World. Essays in the History of Immigration (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1990), by Luebke, 95, Table 1.
Luebke's data are derived from: U. S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States,
Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington, DC, 1975), 106. These statistics do not include German-speaking
immigrants from nations other than Germany.
[2] John A. Hawgood, The Tragedy of German-America. The Germans in the United States of America
during the Nineteenth Century––and After (New York: Putnam's, 1940), 58.
[3] Luebke, 95, Table 1. In the 1880s, Germans constituted 27.5% of total immigration.
[4] The peaks were 215,009 and 250,630, respectively. U. S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics,
106.
[5] Günter Moltmann, "The Pattern of German Emigration to the United States in the Nineteenth
Century," in America and the Germans. An Assessment of a Three-Hundred-Year History, ed. Frank
Trommler and Joseph McVeigh (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1985), 21.
[6] In 1880, the German-born populations of Cincinnati and Milwaukee numbered 46,157 and 31,483;
that of St. Louis, 54,901; and those of New York and Chicago, 163,482 and 75,205, respectively. (The
figure for New York does not include Brooklyn, which at that time had not yet been incorporated into
Greater New York and, as the third largest American city, had a German-born population comparable
to that of Philadelphia, at 55,339.) U.S. Census Office, Tenth Census of the United States, June 1, 1880,
Volume 1: Statistics of the Population at the Tenth Census (Washington, DC: Government Printing
Office, 1883), 538-539.
[7] Immigrants of Irish stock made up 27% of the city's population. Russell A. Kazal, "Becoming 'Old
Stock': The Waning of German-American Identity in Philadelphia, 1900-1930" (Ph. D. dissertation,
University of Pennsylvania, 1998), 99, Table 1.1. Kazal's source for the table is, in turn: Theodore
Hershberg, Alan N. Burstein, Eugene P. Ericksen, Stephanie W. Greenberg and William L. Yancey, "A
Tale of Three Cities: Blacks, Immigrants, and Opportunity in Philadelphia, 1850-1880, 1930, 1970,"
in Philadelphia. Work, Space, Family, and Group Experience in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Theodore
Hershberg (New York: Oxford UP, 1981), 465, Table 1. Kazal published an abridged version of his
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dissertation as: Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity (Princeton: Princeton
UP, 2004).
[8] Kathleen Neils Conzen, "German-Americans and the Invention of Ethnicity," in America and the
Germans, 133-135. Conzen argues that by "reacting to the assimilation norms held out to them by
American society" and striving for a sense of group cohesiveness, German Americans "helped also to
invent ethnicity itself as a category within American society" (133).
[9] Albert Bernhardt Faust, The German Element in the United States (New York: Arno Press and the
New York Times, 1969; reprint of the revised edition published by the Steuben Society, 1927), Volume 2,
250-251.
[10] Kazal, 60-61.
[11] Lesley Ann Kawaguchi, The Making of Philadelphia's German-America: Ethnic Group and
Community Development, 1830-1883 (Ph. D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983),
270, 277. The very first Turnverein was founded in Cincinnati.
[12] Anzeiger des Westens, August 28, 1858. Qtd. in Alfred Henry Nolle, The German Drama on the
St. Louis Stage (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1917; Americana Germanica No. 32), 26-27.
Börnstein was at that time the editor of the Anzeiger, a St. Louis newspaper. All translations from the
German are my own.
[13] Hermann E. Rothfuss, "The Beginnings of the German-American Stage," German Quarterly 24.2
(March 1951): 94.
[14] C. F. Huch, "Das deutsche Theater in Philadelphia vor dem Bürgerkriege," Mitteilungen des
Deutschen Pionier-Vereins von Philadelphia 6 (1907): 13-27; here: 13. The article was the first in a threepart series by Huch in Mitteilungen, followed by: "Das deutsche Theater in Philadelphia während des
Bürgerkrieges," 7 (1908): 10-20; and "Das deutsche Theater in Philadelphia seit dem Bürgerkriege," 8
(1908): 14-29. My narrative from this point will closely follow Huch, with citations using the author's last
name and the abbreviated titles: "Vor dem Bürgerkriege," "Während des Bürgerkrieges," and "Seit dem
Bürgerkriege," respectively.
[15] Qtd. in Huch, "Vor dem Bürgerkriege." 13-14.
[16] Huch, "Vor dem Bürgerkriege," 15-18.
[17] Huch, "Vor dem Bürgerkriege," 19. On the two venues, see Irvin R. Glazer, Philadelphia Theatres,
A-Z. A Comprehensive, Descriptive Record of 813 Theatres Constructed Since 1724 (New York:
Greenwood Press, 1986): the Melodeon, 167; and City Museum, 86-87.
[18] Huch, "Vor dem Bürgerkriege," 19-22.
[19] Huch, "Vor dem Bürgerkriege," 19-23. Huch does not specify the total number of plays for 1858.
The works listed are just a sampling from those named by Huch as performed more than twice, or as
noteworthy productions. In many cases, Huch gives only the titles.
[20] Huch, "Vor dem Bürgerkriege," 23.
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[21] Huch, "Vor dem Bürgerkriege," 24. Huch identifies the building originally bought by the
Turngemeinde as "Marshalls-Institut." According to playbills and clippings of newspaper advertisements
for Turner-Halle held in the Learned Collection (dated 1873-1881), the address was 444 & 446 N. Third
Street. (See, for instance, playbills 1875-1879, folder 688.)
[22] Huch, "Vor dem Bürgerkriege," 24.
[23] Huch, "Während des Bürgerkrieges," 13-15. One notes in Huch's account that the Melodeon––
previously mentioned as a venue on Chestnut above Sixth––at this point is being used as a name for a
venue on Callowhill Street; see note 25, below.
[24] Huch, "Während des Bürgerkrieges," 15.
[25] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 22. The "Callowhill-Straszen-Theater" to which Huch makes
repeated reference is apparently a rubric for performances being held at the site originally called the City
Museum, located (as mentioned above) on Callowhill Street 'below Fifth.' The address of the successor
venue, Concordia-Halle, was 417-427 Callowhill Street (see playbill of 1874, folder 676); that is also
the address given for Concordia Operetten-Theater, which opened there in 1881 (see librettos, box 33).
Glazer's account of City Museum confirms this assumption: "When [the site] reopened after the 1868 fire,
it offered plays, vaudeville and German Drama. Its new name was the Concordia" (86-87). One of the
alternate names that Glazer gives for the site is "Melodeon"; his compendium makes no reference to the
name "Callowhill Street Theater."
[26] Huch, "Während des Bürgerkrieges," 16-17; "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 15.
[27] Huch, "Während des Bürgerkrieges," 18-19; "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 14.
[28] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 14.
[29] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 16.
[30] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 16. Musical scores authored by Theodor Schaumberg can be
found in the Learned Collection––folders 655 (for the play Bruder Liederlich) and 662-664 (for Die
Afrikanerin)––as well as handwritten role books (actors' scripts) and handwritten transcriptions of plays
that are stamped with his name. In the latter category is a handwritten copy of Roderich Benedix's one-act
comedy Nein, signed and dated by Schaumberg 21 February 1868 (folder 44).
[31] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 18-19.
[35] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 25-26. Concerning German-language theater in Turner Halle during
this period, a number of performances are documented by newspaper clippings in the Learned Collection
(with titles in addition to the ones named by Huch); see Appendix 2: List of Newspaper Advertisements
for Performances in Turner-Halle, 1873-1875, following the last series of the collection inventory of this
register.
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[36] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 27. Concerning the history of the German theater from 1877 on,
Huch gives only a brief overview, while referring the reader to an article ("eine Geschichte der hiesigen
deutschen Bühne") published on 2 July 1905 in the Philadelphia newspaper Die Neue Welt, by Siegfried
Remak, who served for many years as the ticket agent of Germania Theater. I was unfortunately unable to
consult that article before completing the writing of this register. My narrative about Germania Theater is
based to a great extent on the holdings of the Learned Collection.
[37] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 27. See also the entry for "Germania Theatre," in Glazer, 125. Huch
does not give a street address for the site. Glazer gives the street number as "520-530." Playbills and
theater newspapers held in the Learned Collection all give the address as 528-532 N. Third Street. Earlier
items, in 1878 to 1880, also describe the building as "früher Ladner's Military Hall." (See, for instance,
theater newspapers for 1878, folder 690.)
[38] See folder 690 for the newspaper's first issue.
[39] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 27. Huch states the theater closed for reconstruction in "April 1880."
Extant issues of theater newspapers suggest the closing was likely in April 1881.
[40] The details about Gottlob Hammer's origins and emigration can be gleaned from a biographical
sketch of his son, also named Gottlob Hammer, found in Hervorragende und fortschrittliche DeutschAmerikaner von Philadelphia Pennsylvania und Umgegend (Philadelphia: German Daily Gazette
Publishing Co., 1906; unpaginated). The professional activities of Oberkirsch are reflected in the
advertisements that he ran in the Germania's newspaper, Die Bühne, beginning with the first issue. The
paper also carries advertisements for Hammer's wine business. (See folder 690.)
[41] 18 December 1877.
[42] The theater was forced to close on Sundays during the season 1887-1888 for the first time in 15 years
("seit 15 Jahren das erste Mal"), according to a souvenir program for that season. In the souvenir program
for the season 1890-1891, it is again noted that the theater had remained closed on Sundays, and that this
had been the case for four years ("wie bereits seit 4 Jahren"), that is, throughout the intervening period.
The souvenir programs are held at the German Society of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, call numbers AG
720.2 and AG 720.4, respectively.
[43] For an overview of the Learned Collection's holdings of the newspapers of Germania Theater, see the
Index to Theater Newspapers in the indices at the end of this register.
[44] Stated in an advertisement for the theater in Philadelphia Tageblatt, 30 April 1878.
[45] The Thalia Theater also issued its own newspaper carrying the program (folder 711).
[46] Nolle, 53, 56. See also a small news item about Wurster and the closing of the Chicago theater in the
Germania's newspaper, 19 April 1878, under "Theater-Neuigkeiten" (folder 690).
[47] See folder 704.
[48] Huch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 27. In 1893 to 1896, Wurster led another German theater in St.
Louis, which, despite his evident talent as a director, faltered financially; Nolle, 65.
[49] Germania Theater, souvenir program, 1885-1890, held at the German Society of Pennsylvania, call
number AG 720.3.
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[50] Hoch, "Seit dem Bürgerkriege," 27. For the theater newspaper, see folder 710. Hoch states that the
theater closed on the 1 February 1895––evidently the closing was later than that. Rehearsal materials
for Die Ehre bear names of cast members as advertised in the newspaper (see folders 573-578). The
performances of that play were scheduled for 5 and 6 March.
[51] Georg von Bosse, Philadelphia und sein Deutschtum. Ein Gedenkblatt von Ausstellungsjahr 1926
(Philadelphia: Graf & Breuninger, 1926), 130. Bosse initially settled in Egg Harbor City, N.J. After
several moves, he arrived in Philadelphia in 1905.
[52] The holdings at the German Society of Pennsylvania related to the Deutsche Theater at Franklin
Street and Girard Avenue include a commemorative booklet issued in March 1909, in honor of Hanisch's
25th anniversary in his career as an actor (call number AG 715.4), and a collection of theater programs.
[53] Bosse, 130. Glazer, entry on the German Theatre, 125; and on the Astor Theatre, 62.
[54] Huch notes Bloch's name among the members of a theater troop in summer 1866; "Seit dem
Bürgerkriege," 15. Huch speculates that Bloch was a prompter at that time.
[55] See, for instance, the cast listing in a clipping of a newspaper advertisement for a performance of
Carl Elmar's Ein jüdischer Dienstbote in August 1873, pasted to inside front cover of the published copy
(folder 100); and a playbill for a performance of Arthur Müller's Die Hexe von Leonberg in September
1879 (folder 678).
[56] The compiler is given as: "Theodor Bloch, der sich seit 25 Jahren mit der Statistik des hiesigen
Deutschen Theaters eingehend beschäftigt"; Germania Theater, souvenir program, 1885-1890, held at
the German Society of Pennsylvania, call number AG 720.3. Three other souvenir programs held at the
German Society are for seasons 1886-1887, 1887-1888, and 1890-1891 (call numbers AG 720.1, AG
720.2, and AG 720.4, respectively). Bloch is also credited as the compiler of the 1890-1891 program.
For the playbill of 1887, see Learned Collection, folder 683. On Bloch as prompter, see also an item of
uncertain date that appears to be a draft of a speech about the prompter Bloch, apparently recited by one
of the actors before or after a performance (miscellaneous unidentified items, folder 629).
[57] The advertisement, which retains a similar form over the years, recommends the theater lending
library ( Theater-Leihbibliothek) to theater directors, amateur theaters, and associations ( Vereinen),
boasting an extensive selection of "Possen, Schau- und Lustspielen mit den dazu gehörigen Rollen, unter
den billigsten Bedingungen" (farces, dramas and comedies, with accompanying role books, under the
cheapest terms). See the first advertisements, in folder 692, and the last in folder 710.
[58] See Series III, box 34.
[59] Cast lists usually only give "Herr Frank" and "Fräulein Frank"; their full names appear when benefit
performances are dedicated to them––for Heinrich Frank in July 1878 (newspaper, folder 690) and for
Mathilde, or Tilly, Frank in January and June 1879 (playbills, folder 678).
[60] An advertisement for the book is found in the newspaper for Thalia Theater, which was also edited
by Frank; see the issue for the week ending 6 March 1886, folder 711.
[61] See Appendix 2: List of Newspaper Advertisements for Performances in Turner Halle, 1873-1875,
following the last series of the collection inventory in this register.
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[62] For the playbill, which has been restored, see folder 722. It is missing one fragment, which remains
pasted to the inside front cover of Bloch's copy of Die Tage der Erkenntnis. The book was among the
ones separated from the manuscript collection for cataloging in Rare Books.
[63] See folder 347. The materials in the file were evidently used for a performance in Philadelphia in
July 1875 (documented by a playbill, folder 688).
[64] In the summary data accessible in the online database at www.castlegarden.org (as accessed 9 June
2007), the first name Theodor is (mis)spelled as “Thodor.”
[65] See the files for Hugo Müller's Im Wartesalon erster Klasse (folders 370-371), and Feodor Wehl's
Ein modernes Verhängniss (folders 595-596); and the theater newspaper of Harmonie Hall advertising
the performances (folder 699).
Scope and Contents
The Learned Collection on German-Language Theater comprises material relating to the production and
performance of German-language plays in Philadelphia, primarily in the last quarter of the nineteenth
century. The collection might be thought of in terms of two broad categories: materials directly used by
theater companies for rehearsal and performance of works; and printed materials designed for the benefit
of audiences and to promote performances.
The core of the materials in the first category are to be found in Series I, Theater Rehearsal Materials,
including the following types of items: published copies of plays (or, occasionally, handwritten
transcriptions) that have been annotated as prompt books; handwritten scenarios; handwritten role books
(actors' scripts); and, in scattered instances, props (limited to written items––letters, written orders,
statements––that were called for in the script). The materials of Series I date from approximately 1832 to
1897. They represent a total of 168 titles of German plays by 100 authors (including three authors who
appear only as co-authors; one work was published anonymously). In some cases the collection includes
musical scores associated with that work (Series IV). The extant musical scores are usually handwritten;
in a few instances, a published booklet of music is included. Eleven composers are represented (and one
unidentified composer), including two composers (Theodor Schaumberg and C. Harry Lauer) who were
active in the local Philadelphia milieu as music directors.
The majority of the materials in Series I are associated with performances in Philadelphia from around
1873 to 1895, predominantly (although not exclusively) at Germania Theater, at 528-532 N. Third Street,
which operated from August 1877 until around March 1895.[1] By far most of the items comprise the
surviving inventory of the theater lending library of Theodor Bloch, a German immigrant to Philadelphia
who was active in German-language theater in the city during this period.[2] The use of the materials
for performances can usually be inferred from the evidence of annotations. In some cases the materials
can be correlated to specific performances that are documented by playbills and theater newspapers
in the collection. In other cases, the time period when they were most likely used has been inferred
through consideration of the cast(s) reflected in annotations (the names of cast members are often
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written on the role books and/or noted on the page listing characters in the published copy). In a few
instances, contemporary participants in German-language theater actually signed and dated materials that
they produced or used.[3] Performances were generally able to be confirmed only from the 1870s on.
However, it is possible that in some cases handwritten items originated even earlier, and original castmember names are either no longer in evidence or could not be dated.[4]
The majority of the titles found in Series I are by authors who were popular on nineteenth-century
German stages but whose works today are mostly forgotten, or who would primarily be studied under
the rubric of 'popular' or 'commercial' theater. The five authors represented by the most titles are Gustav
von Moser, Emil Pohl, Hermann Salingré, Louis Schneider, and Friedrich Kaiser (each with between 7
and 9 titles). Rudolf Kneisel, Arthur Müller, Julius Rosen, and Feodor Wehl are represented by four titles
each. Five women authors are included: Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer; Hedwig Dohm; Amalie, Princess of
Saxony; Therese von Megerle; and Betty Young. (Only Birch-Pfeiffer is represented by more than one
title.) The collection contains materials for some titles that are so obscure today that copies of the text are
difficult to find, and in a few instances the title (whether it is represented by a published copy of the play,
a handwritten transcription, or perhaps only role books) might be unique in the realm of cataloged items.
A significant number of the titles are translations and/or adaptations from works in other languages,
especially French, but a few in other languages. In the German-American context, Megerles's Onkel Tom,
based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, is perhaps worthy of mention; playbills
and a theater newspaper are included. In the context of a selection of authors in which there are only
a handful with a claim to any kind of canonical status––Johann Nestroy, with Einen Jux will er sich
machen, or Hermann Suderman, with Die Ehre––it is fascinating to find Friedrich Schiller represented
here only as an adapter, with his fairy-tale drama Turandot, Prinzessin von China, based on the Italian
play Turandot, by Carlo Gozzi. (As can be seen by a glance at the indices to the collection's playbills and
theater newspapers, found at the end of this register, Schiller's standard and well-loved works, including
Wilhelm Tell, Die Räuber, and Maria Stuart, were also produced regularly on the German-language
stage in Philadelphia, although they are not represented in Series I.)
In the cataloging of these titles, the adapters have been regarded as the primary author, and every effort
was made to trace both the author and the title of the original source (the complete information could not
always be found). In two instances, the title constitutes an unattributed German translation of a French
work, and since the translator could not be identified, the work has been placed under the name of the
author of the French source (Bernard-Valville; Michel Carré). One work has been cataloged according to
its title because the author could not be identified ( Die lebendig todten Eheleute).
A significant aspect of the selection of plays represented in Series I is that 50 of the 168 titles are works
designed to be performed with music. (Musical scores––not necessarily complete––are included for only
20 works.)
Considered by genre, the selection of works is weighted toward comic genres, with over one hundred
works designated as Lustspiel (comedy), Posse (farce), Schwank (comical story), or Komödie (or:
Comödie; comedy). Following is an overview of the distribution of titles according to genre:
50 Lustspiel
34 Posse
17 Schwank
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14 Schauspiel
11 Volksstück or Volks-Schauspiel
7 Drama
4 Lebensbild
4 Liederspiel
3 Trauerspiel
2 Märchen
5 Charakterbild (Characterbild)
4 Genrebild
3 Oper / Operette
2 Dramatisches Gedicht
8 Miscellaneous genre designations (dramatisches Gemälde; Melodrama; Scene; dramatisches Spiel;
Scherzspiel; Weihnachts-Komödie; Zeitgema#lde; dramatische Anecdote)
While most of the theater rehearsal materials appear to come from Theodor Bloch's lending library, it is
interesting to note that the extant items apparently represent only a fraction of the original library. The
collection includes a catalog that Bloch compiled for his library in 1886 (the lone item constituting Series
III). The catalog contains a 39-page long, mostly single-spaced, handwritten list of titles that Bloch held at
that time––perhaps 1,000 titles or more.
One needs to consider that some published books (all containing one or more plays) have been separated
from the Manuscript Collection in order to be cataloged as Rare Books. In all cases, the books in
this category contained no significant annotations and were not associated with any theater rehearsal
materials. The books that have been separated in this way during the present processing (others may have
been separated from the collection at an earlier point) number approximately 75. Nearly half of those
books are accounted for by a partial set of the collected plays of August von Kotzebue––34 of the 50
volumes contained in: Theater (Wien: Lechner, 1830-1833). A quick perusal indicates that the titles
represented by these books are indeed listed in Bloch's catalog, although the catalog does not list every
single title in the volumes that contain multiple plays. In addition, a number of the books are labeled as
the property of Bloch. It seems a reasonable assumption that most, if not all, of the books belonged to
him. With that in mind, it appears that Bloch may have listed many titles in his catalog even if he owned
only a published copy of the play. Even if role books may have existed for these additional titles, the lack
of annotations in the published copies suggests that the materials were never actually used to prepare a
performance. Overall then, one might speculate that the extant items in Series I are more representative
than it might at first appear. If they seem to represent perhaps only 15% of the original library, they might
nevertheless represent a higher proportion of the items in the library that were actually connected with a
performance in Bloch's milieu.
The materials of the second category mentioned at the outset of this discussion––namely, items designed
for the benefit of audiences and to promote performances––include: librettos (Series II), playbills (Series
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V), oversized (poster-format) playbills (Series VII.C), and theater newspapers (Series VI), as well as a
handful of newspaper clippings of advertisements for performances, from the general German-language
press of Philadelphia.[5] The materials in this category are mostly concentrated in the period 1878 to
1894, with scattered items dating to as early as 1873 and to as late as 1898. Almost all of these materials
pertain specifically to Philadelphia, although a few items relate to performances in other cities in the
United States (New York City; Newark, N.J.; Sea Isle City, N.J.; and Kansas City, Mo.); and one playbill
is from Berlin, Germany. The few items that pertain to performances in cities other than Philadelphia
all appear to have had some relationship to individuals who participated in German-language theater in
Philadelphia. (For instance, a theater newspaper from Newark records performances by cast members
who routinely performed in Philadelphia during the period; a playbill from New York City records a
performance that was evidently prepared using items borrowed from Bloch's library; and the single
playbill from Germany was possibly saved by Bloch during a visit to Germany––he, at any rate, pasted it
to the inside front cover of the published copy of the play held in his library.)
The theater rehearsal materials of Series I include a small subset of materials––17 files––that deserve
special mention, since they seem to share certain qualities that set them apart in the context of the
collection on the whole.[6] First, the works in question are, on the whole, significantly older, representing,
in effect, an earlier generation of authors in comparison to the mid-to-late nineteenth century authors who
predominate in the collection. The materials themselves are all written on a heavier-weight and higher
quality paper that has an unusual look in comparison to most other handwritten items in the collection,
and the style of German handwriting ( Kurrentschrift) also tends to a more intricate look typical of older
samples. These items appear to have been produced before 1870. The files consist entirely of handwritten
items, without the inclusion of a published copy of the play as a prompt book, as is more commonly the
case among the materials that can be directly related to Theodor Bloch's lending library. The items in any
given file form a uniform set, seemingly written out in the same hand. Some of the files might be linked
based on the handwriting. In some cases the items are accompanied by a paper sleeve, and sometimes
the sleeve is secured with a red wax seal. Among the several files that include a seal with a discernible
impression, four share a seal with an identical design, while a fifth file has a seal that seems to bear a
coat of arms. It seems unlikely that the materials in these 17 files originated in the German-American
theater milieu; rather, they may have been produced in a German-speaking milieu in Europe, perhaps on
a noble estate where private performances were given. It should be noted that two of these titles are listed
in Theodor Bloch's catalog: Karl Töpfer, Nehmt ein Exempel dran; and Oswald, Die Theaterprobe.
On that basis, one might speculate that Bloch acquired the items fortuitously from a source outside of his
usual milieu. There is no direct evidence to support this hypothesis. None of the items is marked by Bloch
in any way, and the annotations on the items do not include any references that were able to be identified
as linking them to the German theater milieu of Philadelphia.
Appendices and Indices
Following the last series in the collection inventory is a series of appendices and indices that gather
together information about various materials in the collection.
Appendices 1 to 3, mentioned in the notes to the discussion above, give overviews, respectively, of the
theater venues represented; of the handful of scattered newspaper clippings that document additional
performances; and of a certain grouping of theater rehearsal materials judged to be possibly older and of a
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provenance different from the late-nineteenth-century German-American milieus generally represented in
the collection.
The three indices that follow the appendices convey detailed information about the performances
represented in the playbills and theater newspapers contained in the collection. The Index to Playbills
and the Index to Theater Newspapers, organized according to theater name, and then chronologically,
constitute a supplement to the general inventory list for Series V and VI; they provide an itemized
listing of all the playbills and theater newspaper issues, respectively. Finally, the Author/Title Index
to Playbills and Theater Newspapers has been compiled in order to enable the location of materials
within the collection of playbills and theater newspapers related to specific authors and works of interest.
This index also includes a separate section for composers known to have been responsible for the music
accompanying plays represented in the collection (as advertised in the playbills and theater newspapers).
Endnotes (Scope and Contents)
[1] For an overview of the theaters represented in the collection, see Appendix 1: List of Theater Venues
Represented in the Learned Collection, in the appendices following the last series in the collection
inventory.
[2] See the "Biographical Sketch of Theodor Bloch," in the Biography/History note, above.
[3] Additional confirmation of specific performances could well be drawn from the general Germanlanguage press of the period. Theater advertisements were carried, for instance, in the Philadelphia
Tageblatt, the Philadelphia Demokrat, Die Freie Presse, and Die Neue Welt. A scholarly work
useful in this regard is the Ph.D. thesis of Orlando Faulkland Lewis, "Performances of German
Drama in Philadelphia 1842-1898, as advertised in 'Philadelphia Demokrat'; 2,966 titles, 19,270
performances" (handwritten manuscript, University of Pennsylvania, 1900).
[4] Huch's series of articles on German theater in Philadelphia, cited above (in the "Historical Sketch on
German-Language Theater in Philadelphia," in the Biography/History note) gives listings of actors and
actresses from as early as the 1850s.
[5] There is no separate series for clippings. These clippings are almost exclusively found pasted to the
inside covers of published copies of plays that belonged to Theodor Bloch’s theater lending library,
and so are found randomly throughout Series I. They document performances given in Turner Halle,
Philadelphia, just prior to the period covered by the collection's playbills and theater newspapers. For
an overview, see Appendix 2: List of Newspaper Advertisements for Performances in Turner Halle,
1873-1875, in the appendices following the last series in the collection inventory. A single stand-alone
newspaper clipping from Philadelphia Tageblatt, dated 8 November 1878, has been integrated with the
theater newspapers (Series VI).
[6] For a list of these files, see Appendix 3: List of Theater Rehearsal Materials of an Unknown Milieu, in
the appendices following the last series in the collection inventory.
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Administrative Information
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
2007
Finding aid prepared by Violet Lutz.
Use Restrictions
Copyright restrictions may exist. For most library holdings, the Trustees of the University of
Pennsylvania do not hold copyright. It is the responsibility of the requester to seek permission from the
holder of the copyright to reproduce material from the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books
and Manuscripts.
Source of Acquisition
Gift of Marion Dexter Learned, 1917 [?]
Controlled Access Headings
Form/Genre(s)
•
•
•
•
•
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Librettos
Manuscripts, American--19th century
Manuscripts, German--19th century
Playbills
Prompt books
Scores
Scripts
Subject(s)
• Drama, German--19th century
• Theater--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century
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Other Finding Aids
For a complete list of the 168 plays and 10 librettos found in the collection, do the following title search
in Franklin: Learned Collection on German-Language Theater.
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I. Theater Rehearsal Materials
Collection Inventory
I. Theater Rehearsal Materials. 32 boxes.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author, then by title of work.
Series Description
This series comprises materials used by theater companies in preparing performances of plays. Many
of these materials are marked in some way as belonging to Theodor Bloch, who ran a theater lending
library in Philadelphia. The materials generally fall into several major categories that have been ordered
in the following sequence:
1. Published edition (printed copy) of the play, usually bearing handwritten annotations, for use as a
prompt book. In some cases the file contains, instead, a handwritten copy of the complete text.
2. Handwritten scenario
3. List of props. Notes about props are often found on the scenario, or somewhere in the copy of the text,
but occasionally there is a separate list.
4. Props. Some files contain fictional handwritten 'letters,' or other handwritten documents, that are
called for in the script, to be held or read by a character at a certain point in the action.
5. Role books (actors' scripts). Handwritten booklets containing an individual role, with cues.
Occasionally, handwritten notes that seem to be about the props, stage set, or costumes are to be found
on the outside or inside covers of role books. In many cases the names of actors or actresses who
played the role are noted on the front of role books (sometimes several different casts over time can be
discerned; in other cases earlier names have been erased).
Materials for two unidentified plays are found at the end of Series I (folders 625-628); and three
miscellaneous unidentified items (folder 629): a draft of a rhymed speech about the prompter Theodor
Bloch; a poem or rhymed speech referring to a story of infanticide; and song lyrics, including the line
“Mein Schatz is a Jäger.”
Oversized role books and scenarios are found in series VII.A.
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Individual cataloging records for the files of each title (author as main entry) have been entered into
Worldcat; these records can also be accessed through Franklin, the online catalog of the University of
Pennsylvania (http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu).
Box
Folder
Adami -- Anzengruber.
1
1-17
Bahn -- Belly.
2
18-36
Benedix -- Bernard-Valville.
3
37-54
Birch-Pfeiffer -- Blum.
4
55-73
Blumenthal -- Contessa.
5
74-90
Deinhardstein -- Feldmann.
6
91-108
Friedrich -- Görner ( Aschenbrödel).
7
109-129
Görner ( In Pyrmont) -- Hahn.
8
130-153
Halm -- Homburg.
9
154-172
Hopf -- Jacobson.
10
173-192
Jahn -- Kaiser ( Etwas Kleines).
11
193-217
Kaiser ( Jagd-Abenteuer) -- Karl.
12
218-234
Kneisel.
13
235-252
Kotzebue -- L'Arronge ( Doctor Klaus).
14
253-262
L'Arronge ( Mein Leopold) -- Lindau.
15
263-281
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Lortzing -- Mallachow and Elsner.
16
282-294
Megerle -- Moser ( Der Bibliothekar).
17
295-316
Moser ( Eine Frau, die in Paris war) -- Moser and Drost.
18
317-338
Moser and L'Arronge -- Müller, A. ( Die Hexe von Leonberg).
19
339-354
Müller, A. (Johannisfeuer) -- Müller von Königswinter.
20
355-373
Nestroy -- Pless.
21
374-390
Pohl ( Die alte Schachtel -- Die Schulreiterin).
22
391-414
Pohl (Seine Dritte) -- Räder.
23
415-434
Raupach -- Roger.
24
435-452
Rosen.
25
453-476
Salingré ( Berliner Kinder -- Pech-Schulze).
26
477-495
Salingré (Ein verlornes Mädchen) -- Salingré and Jacobson.
27
496-516
Saul -- Schneider ( Die Memoiren des Teufels).
28
517-539
Schneider ( Die schöne Müllerin) -- Schönthan.
29
540-559
Schröder -- Sudermann.
30
560-578
Tenelli -- Wichert ( Das eiserne Kreuz).
31
579-604
Wichert ( Ein Schritt vom Wege) -- Young.
32
605-624
Unidentified materials.
32
625-629
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II. Librettos
II. Librettos. 10 folders.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author, then by title of work.
Series Description
This series comprises librettos of operas or operettas (as well as one work described in the subtitle as
"Posse mit Gesang"), published in connection with performances. The librettos usually include the
names of the theater's top personnel (owner, director, artistic director, music director), and often the cast
members for a specific performance. They also carry advertisements.
Like the theater rehearsal materials in Series I, these items have been individually cataloged; please see
the records in Franklin for additional details.
Braun, Karl Johann Ritter von Braunthal. Das Nachtlager in Granada
Box
Folder
33
630
33
631
33
632
33
633
33
634
33
635
(music by Conradin Kreutzer). Concordia Operetten-Theater,
Philadelphia, 1881.
Friedrich, W. Martha (music by Friedrich von Flotow). Concordia
Operetten-Theater, Philadelphia, 1881.
Haffner, C. (Carl), and Richard Genée. Die Fledermaus (music by Johann
Strauss). Concordia Operetten-Theater, Philadelphia, 1881.
Hopp, Julius. Blaubart (music by Jacques Offenbach). Concordia
Operetten-Theater, Philadelphia, 1881.
Hopp, Julius. Die Prinzessin von Trapezunt (music by Jacques
Offenbach). Concordia Operetten-Theater, Philadelphia, circa 1881.
Italiener, H. Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (music by Adolph
Neuendorff). Germania Theater, New York City, circa 1880-1886.
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III. Catalog of Theodor Bloch's Theater Lending Library, Philadelphia
Mannstädt, Wilhelm. Der tolle Wenzel (music by Paul Sentz). Germania
33
636
33
637
33
638
33
639
Theater, Philadelphia, circa 1888.
Die Regimentstochter (music by Gaetano Donizetti). Author of
the German libretto unknown (original French libretto by JeanFrançois-Alfred Bayard and Henri Saint-Georges). Germania Theater,
Philadelphia, circa 1881.
Treumann, Karl. Pariser Leben! (music by Jacques Offenbach).
Germania Theater, Philadelphia, 1893.
Zell, F. Fatinitza (music by Franz von Suppé). Concordia OperettenTheater, Philadelphia, 1881.
III. Catalog of Theodor Bloch's Theater Lending Library, Philadelphia. 1 volume.
Box
Catalog of Theodor Bloch's Theater Lending Library, Philadelphia, January 1886.
Description
Handwritten catalog created by Bloch, in a hard-covered notebook, of rehearsal
materials available in his theater lending library located at 442 N. Fourth Street,
Philadelphia. Title label pasted to front cover reads: "Catalog von Theater-Stücken,
Rollen und Musikalien, welche in der Theater-Leih-Bibliothek von Theodor Bloch
enthalten und zu verleihen sind." Includes, at the front, two pages of text clarifying
lending conditions. Works in the catalog are listed by title, and are grouped in the
following categories: plays without music; plays with music; children's theater; operetta;
opera - texts. For each title the following information is noted: genre (e.g. Posse,
Lustspiel); number of acts; author; number of male roles; number of female roles; and
number of children's roles [?].
The majority of the files of materials found in Series I (theater rehearsal materials) and
Series IV (musical scores) in the Learned Collection are in some way labeled as having
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IV. Musical Scores
belonged to Theodor Bloch and/or to his theater lending library. When such evidence is
present, it has been noted in catalog records in Franklin; 134 of the 168 records contain
such mentions, and those files can be located by doing a combined search for title
(Learned Collection) and the general keywords: Theodor Bloch.
IV. Musical Scores. 1 box.
Arrangment
Arranged alphabetically by composer, then by title of work.
Note
With only one exception, musical scores are associated with plays for which theater rehearsal materials
can be found in Series I; the location of those related materials is indicated. In the catalog records for the
plays in Franklin, the presence of music has been noted, and the records are also accessible by composer
name. One file of oversized musical scores is found in series VII.B.
Bial, Rudolf. Music for Die alte Schachtel (play by Emil Pohl), undated.
Box
Folder
35
640-641
35
642
35
643
35
644
See also theater rehearsal materials in Folders 391-397.
Bial, Rudolf. Music for Die Maurer von Berlin (play by Emil Pohl),
undated. See also theater rehearsal materials in Folders 406-412.
Bial, Rudolf. Music for Mein Leopold (play by Adolph L'Arronge),
Brahms, Johannes [?]. Possibly from Die schöne Magelone, opus 33,
no. 13, undated. Two versions of a musical score for stanzas three and
four of Ludwig Tieck's poem "Geliebter, wo zaudert" contained in his
story Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von
Provence, the text that was the basis for Brahms's Die schöne Magelone.
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IV. Musical Scores
Conradi, August. Music for Der Budiker und sein Kind (play by Hermann
35
645
35
646-648
35
649-650
35
651-652
35
653
35
654-655
35
656-657
35
658-660
35
661
Salingré and Eduard Jacobson), undated. See also theater rehearsal
materials in Folders 509-516.
Conradi, August. Music for Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle
(play by Rudolf Kneisel), undated. See also theater rehearsal materials
in Folders 235-240.
Conradi, August. Music for Robert und Bertram (play by Gustav Räder),
Conradi, August. Music for Das Volk wie es weint und lacht (by O.F.
Berg and David Kalisch), undated. See also theater rehearsal materials
in Folders 50-53.
Conradi, August. Music for Werther und Lotte, oder: Nachtwächters
Erdenwallen (play by Georg Belly), undated. See also oversized scores
in Folder 719; and theater rehearsal materials in Folders 35-36.
Conradi, August, and Theodor Schaumberg. Music for Bruder Liederlich
(play by Emil Pohl), undated. See also theater rehearsal materials in
Folders 398-405.
Gumbert, Ferdinand. Music for Die Lieder des Musikanten (play by
Rudolf Kneisel), April 1894, undated. See also theater rehearsal
materials in Folders 241-244.
Hauptner, Thuiskon. Music for Berliner Kinder (play by Hermann
Salingré), undated. See also theater rehearsal materials in Folders
477-487.
Hauptner, Thuiskon, and Max Telle [?]. Music for Singvögelchen (play
by Eduard Jacobson), undated. See also theater rehearsal materials in
Folders 191-192.
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V. Playbills
Hauptner, Thuiskon, and Theodor Schaumberg. Music for Die
35
662-664
35
665-667
35
668-669
35
670
35
671
35
672
35
673
35
674
Afrikanerin (play by Eduard Jacobson), undated. See also theater
rehearsal materials in Folders 184-190.
Lang, Adolf. Music for Eine Nacht in Berlin (play by Albert Hopf),
Lang, Adolf. Music for Pech-Schulze (by Hermann Salingré), undated.
See also theater rehearsal materials in Folders 488-495.
Lauer, C. Harry. Music for Die rothe Liesel (play by Betty Young), circa
1878-1879. See also theater rehearsal materials in Folders 619-624.
Music for Das Lorle (play by August Wilhelm Hesse), undated.
Composer unknown. See also theater rehearsal materials in Folders
168-169.
Müller, Adolf. Music for Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus
Ober-Oesterreich (play by Friedrich Kaiser), undated. See also theater
rehearsal materials in Folders 225-228.
Müller, Adolf. Music for Therese Krones (play by Carl Haffner),
Schmidt, Hermann. Music for Kurmärker und Picarde (play by Louis
Schneider), 25 January 1878. See also theater rehearsal materials in
Folders 535-536.
V. Playbills. 15 folders.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by name of theater, then chronologically.
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V. Playbills
Note
Oversized playbills are found in series VII.C. and VII.D.
For a detailed listing of the individual playbills, including information about the performances
announced, see the Index to Playbills in the indices at the end of this register.
Box
Folder
Aurora Dramatic Circle, Café Logeling, New York City, 1889.
36
675
"The Bijou" at Petersen's Hotel, Sea Isle City, N.J., undated.
36
675
Deutsches Stadt-Theater, Concordia Halle, Philadelphia, 1874.
36
676
36
677
36
678
36
679
Germania Theater, Philadelphia, 1882-1883.
36
680
36
681
36
682
36
683
36
684
36
685
Maennerchor Hall, Philadelphia, 1886.
36
686
Stadt-Theater, Philadelphia, 1877.
36
686
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VI. Theater Newspapers
Thalia Theater, 1886.
36
687
Turner-Halle, Philadelphia, 1875-1876, 1879.
36
688
Unidentified playbill, 1896. "Theatralische Abend-Unterhaltung"; no
36
689
location given (features the Philadelphia actor Fritz Weilenbeck).
VI. Theater Newspapers. 22 folders.
Note
Some newspapers that, due to their fragile condition, have been restored and/or laid flat, have been
grouped at the end of the series as "oversized" (subseries C).
For an itemized listing of the extant issues of theater newspapers, including information about the
performances advertised, see the Index to Theater Newspapers in the indices at the end of this register.
A. Newspapers of Germania Theater, Philadelphia.
Drawer
Folder
35
690
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, March - August 1880.
35
691
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, October - December 1880.
35
692
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, January - February 1881.
35
693
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, March - November 1881.
35
694
Germania Theater Zeitung, March 1883 - February 1884.
35
695
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, April 1878 - March 1879. Includes
a miscellaneous newspaper clipping, Philadelphia Tageblatt, 8
November 1878.
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B. Newspapers of Other Theaters
Germania Theater Zeitung, December 1887-March 1888.
35
696
Germania Theater Zeitung, March - October 1890.
35
697
Germania Theater, February 1891 - February 1893.
35
698
Drawer
Folder
35
699
Harmonie Hall, Philadelphia: Harmonie Program, season 1897-1898.
35
699
New Park Theatre, Philadelphia, season 1890-1891, vol. 2, no. 4,
35
700
35
701
35
702
Drawer
Folder
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Die Bühne, 1878-1879, 1882.
35
703
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Germania Theater Zeitung,
35
704
35
705
B. Newspapers of Other Theaters.
Harmonie Hall, Philadelphia: Harmonie Programme, season
1893-1894.
performances 6-11 October 1890.
Saenger-Halle, Belmont Avenue, Newark, N.J., 17-24 November
1889.
Turner Halle, Philadelphia: Die Bühne, Theater-Programm, 22-27
May 1881.
C. Oversized Theater Newspapers (laid flat).
1884-1886.
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Germania Theater Zeitung, 1887.
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VII. Oversized Materials (other than newspapers). 1 map drawer
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Germania Theater Zeitung, 1888 -
35
706
35
707
35
708
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Germania Theater, 1892-1893.
35
709
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Germania Theater, January 1894.
35
710
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Germania Theatre, November 1894 -
35
710
35
711
Drawer
Folder
36
712-713
36
714
36
715
February 1889.
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Germania Theater Zeitung, March
1889, March - April 1890.
Germania Theater, Philadelphia: Germania Theater, December 1890 November 1891.
February 1895.
Thalia Theater, Philadelphia: Programme, season 1885-1886.
VII. Oversized Materials (other than newspapers). 1 map drawer.
A. Oversized Theater Rehearsal Materials.
Amalie, Princess of Saxony. Der Verlobungsring: role book and
scenario, undated. See also related items in Folders 12-14.
Bernard-Valville, François. Die hölzerne Uhr: scenario, undated. See
also related items in Folder 54.
Clauren, Heinrich. Der Abend im Posthaus: two scenarios (two
different versions), undated. See also related items in Folders 85-88.
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B. Oversized Musical Score
Friedrich, W. Dornen und Lorbeer: two role books, undated. See also
36
716
36
717
36
718
Drawer
Folder
36
719
Drawer
Folder
36
720
36
721
related items in Folders 109-112.
Jünger, Johann Friedrich. Die Komödie aus dem Stegreif: scenario,
undated. See also related items in Folders 202-203.
Mels, August. Junge Leiden: role book, undated. See also related
items in Folders 308-310.
B. Oversized Musical Score.
Conradi, August. Music for Werther und Lotte (by George Belly):
"Auftrittslied," "Nachtwächterlied," undated. See also scores in
Folder 653; and theater rehearsal materials in Folders 35-36.
C. Oversized Playbills.
Contents
* 28-29 January [1879] (21" x 9")
* 6 November 1879 (26" x 10")
* 3 March [1881] (26" x 10")
* 3-7 November 1881 (26" x 10")
* 10 May 1883 (26" x 10")
* 1 January [1884] (16-1/2" x 6-1/2"; two copies)
Contents
* 28 April 1887 (26" x 10"; four copies)
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D. Extra-Large Oversized Playbills and Posters
* 19-21 September [1887] (26" x 10")
* 3-5 November [1887] (26" x 10")
* 10-15 February [1888] (26" x 10")
Other theaters.
36
722
Drawer
Folder
36
723
36
724
Contents
* Residenz-Theater (Blumenstr. 9 und Wallner-Theaterstr. 16), Berlin,
2 June 1873. Originally pasted to the inside front cover of a copy of
the play belonging to Theodor Bloch. (16-1/2" x 14")
* Turner Halle, Philadelphia, 16 September 1875 (13" x 10")
* Turner Halle, Philadelphia, 8 June 1876 (20" x 13"; two copies)
* Maennerchor Hall, Philadelphia, 26-28 April [circa 1878] (23" x
8-3/4")
* Concordia Operetten-Theater, Philadelphia, 14-17 Jan. [1882] (26" x
10")
* Stadt-Theater, Kump's Hall, Kansas City, 4 March 1883 (26" x 10")
* Thalia Theater, Philadelphia, 22-24 March 1886 (26" x 10")
* Thalia Theater, Philadelphia, 28 March 1886 (26" x 10")
D. Extra-Large Oversized Playbills and Posters.
Germania Theater, Philadelphia, 4-9 March [1889] (25-1/2" x 18-1/2";
three copies), 1889.
Contents
* 11-15 April 1890 (25-1/2" x 18-1/2"; two copies)
* 10-11 November 1890 (25-1/2" x 18-1/2")
* 8-15 April [1891] (25-1/2" x 18-1/2")
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Appendix 1: List of Theater Venues Represented in the Learned Collection
[Germania Theater, Philadelphia]. Poster advertising Fräul. Martha
36
725
Wedemeyer as Eliza in Uncle Tom's Cabin, circa December 1880
(36-3/4" x 15-1/2").
Unidentified poster (43-1/2" x 30-1/2"), undated. Drawing in black and aqua, possibly depicting a
scene from a play. “Ledger Print Phila.” appears in lower left. See Dietrich poster shelves.
Appendix 1: List of Theater Venues Represented in the Learned Collection.
Theater Venues in Philadelphia
* Concordia-Halle, 417-427 Callowhill Street
Built in 1868-1869, on the site of another theatrical venue that had burned down. The site was originally
known as the City Museum. In the 1870s Concordia-Halle was the venue for German-language theater
productions under the rubric Deutsches Stadt-Theater (playbill, folder 676) or Stadt-Theater (playbill,
folder 686).
In December 1880, the Concordia Operetten-Theater opened in this hall, managed through 1881 by
Robert Tagg (librettos, box 33).
From around fall 1885 to spring 1886 Thalia Theater operated at the same location under the directorship
of Alexander Kost (playbills, folders 687, 722; theater newspapers, folder 711).
* Concordia Operetten-Theater –– see under: Concordia-Halle
* Deutsches Stadt-Theater –– see under: Concordia-Halle.
* Dramatic Hall, 509 S. Fifth Street
A performance of a German-language play at this location is advertised in the Turner Halle theater
newspaper of May 1881 (folder 702).
* Germania Theater, 528-532 N. Third Street (near the intersection with Spring Garden)
Opened on this site around fall 1877, in Ladner's Miliary Hall, which was built in 1857 and operated by
the brothers Fritz and Louis Ladner. The hall was leased by Gottlob Hammer and Henry Oberkirsch as a
venue for Germania Theater beginning in August 1877. In 1881, it was rebuilt as a permanent home for
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Appendix 1: List of Theater Venues Represented in the Learned Collection
Germania Theater, which continued in operation until approximately March 1895. The majority of the
materials in the collection relate to this theater (playbills, folders 677-685, 720-721; theater newspapers,
folders 690-698, 703-710).
* Harmonie Hall, 525-533 N. Eleventh Street (corner of Brandywine)
German-language theater productions at this location are advertised in theater newspapers dating from
1893 to 1898 (folder 699).
* Ladner’s Military Hall –– see under: Germania Theater
* Maennerchor Hall (also: Maennerchor Garden), northeast corner of Franklin Street and Fairmount
Avenue
Operated by Robert Tagg beginning in November 1876. The collection contains playbills from Germanlanguage theater productions at this location dating from circa 1878 (folder 722) and from 1886 (folder
686).
* New Park Theatre, corner of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue
A theater newspaper in the collection related to this venue dates from the 1890-1891 season (folder 700).
* Stadt-Theater –– see under: Concordia-Halle
* Thalia Theater –– see under: Concordia-Halle
* Turner Halle, 444 & 446 N. Third Street (between Willow and Noble)
Established by the Turngemeinde Philadelphia in 1858 to 1860. German-language theater productions
were given at this venue under rubrics such as Deutsches Theater in der Turner-Halle and Turner-Halle
Theater. Pertinent materials in the collection date from 1873 to 1881 (playbills, folders 688, 702; theater
newspaper, folder 702; see also Appendix 2: List of Newspaper Advertisements for Performances in
Turner Halle, 1873-1875).
Theater Venues Outside of Philadelphia
* Aurora Dramatic Circle, Café Logeling, 237 E. 57th Street, New York, N.Y. (playbill, folder 675)
* The Bijou, Petersen’s Hotel, corner of Landis and Fritz Street, Sea Isle City, N.J. (playbill, folder 675)
* Germania Theater, 145-147 East 14th Street (between Third Avenue and Irving Place; Tammany Hall),
New York, N.Y.
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Appendix 2: List of Newspaper Advertisements for Performances in Turner Ha...
Founded by Adolf Neuendorff in 1872; operated at this location until 1881 (libretto, folder 635)
* Residenz-Theater, Blumenstraße 9 und Wallner-Theaterstraße 16, Berlin, Germany (playbill, folder
722)
* Saenger-Halle, Belmont Avenue, Newark, N.J. (theater newspaper, folder 701)
* Stadt-Theater, Kump’s Hall, Main and Tenth Street, Kansas City, Mo. (playbill, folder 722)
Appendix 2: List of Newspaper Advertisements for Performances in Turner Halle, 1873-1875.
Arrangement and Description
Clippings of newspaper advertisements for the following performances, listed in chronological order,
are located in files for theater rehearsal materials in Series I. In each case, the clipping is pasted to
the inside front cover of a published copy of the play that was used as a prompt book. With respect to
documentation of specific performances in Philadelphia in which the rehearsal materials were used,
these clippings, many of which are dated in 1873, supplement the collection's playbills and theater
newspapers, which date from no earlier than 1874.
Folder
13 August 1873, Deutsches Sommer-Theater, Turnerhalle: performance of Ein jüdischer
100
Dienstbote, by Carl Elmar.
29 August 1873, Turnerhalle Sommer-Theater: performance of Die Pfarrersköchin, by
46
O. F. Berg.
16 September 1873, Turnerhalle Sommer-Theater: performance of Maria und
271
Magdalena, by Paul Lindau.
23 September 1873, Turnerhalle Sommer-Theater: performance of Die Mönche, by M.
579
Tenelli.
6 October 1873, Turnerhalle Sommer-Theater: performance of Eine Zeitungsente, by
Rudolf Kneisel.
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249
Appendix 3: List of Theater Rehearsal Materials of an Unknown Milieu
16 October 1873, Turnerhalle Sommer-Theater: performance of Johannisfeuer, oder:
355
Der Gemskönig, by Arthur Müller.
10 November 1873, Turnerhalle Sommer-Theater: performance of Ein freier Mann, by
466
Julius Rosen.
17 November 1873, Turnerhalle-Theater: performance of Washington, der Befreier
546
Nord-Amerika’s, by Georg Schönfeldt.
25 December 1873, Turnerhalle-Theater: performance of Eine Nacht in Berlin, by Albert
173
Hopf.
4 May 1874, Deutsches Theater in der Turner-Halle: performance of Berliner Kinder, by
477
Hermann Salingré.
2 June 1874, Deutsches Theater in der Turner-Halle: performance of Die Tochter
245
Belial's, by Rudolf Kneisel.
17 July 1874, Deutsches Theater in der Turner-Halle: performance of Zwei Tage aus
93
dem Leben eines Fürsten, by Johann Ludwig Deinhardstein.
13 October 1875, Deutsches Theater in der Turner-Halle: performance of Junge Leiden,
308
by August Mels.
Appendix 3: List of Theater Rehearsal Materials of an Unknown Milieu.
The following theater rehearsal materials are highlighted because they may possibly be of a provenance
different from that of the other materials in the collection (see Scope and Contents note, above). Based
on their appearance, the materials were probably created before 1870. They are listed alphabetically by
author of the work to be performed, with unidentified works at the end.
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Appendix 3: List of Theater Rehearsal Materials of an Unknown Milieu
Folder
Amalie, Princess of Saxony, Der Verlobungsring, undated.
12-14,
712-713
Bernard-Valville, François, Die hölzerne Uhr, undated.
54, 714
Blum, Carl, Die Mäntel, undated.
72-73
Castelli, Ignaz Franz, Fünf sind zwei, oder: Domestikenstreiche, undated.
82-83
Castelli, Ignaz Franz, Klimpern gehört zum Handwerk, undated.
84
Clauren, Heinrich, Der Abend im Posthaus, undated.
85-88, 715
Contessa, Karl Wilhelm Salice, Das Räthsel, undated.
89-90
Deinhardstein, Johann Ludwig, Das Bild der Danae, 1837 [?].
91-92
Feldmann, Leopold, Das Portrait der Geliebten, undated.
107-108
Houwald, Ernst von, Der Geburtstag der Mutter, undated.
180-181
Jünger, Johann Friedrich, Die Komödie aus dem Stegreif, undated.
202-203,
717
Kurländer, Franz August von, Der Todte in Verlegenheit, undated.
Lafontaine, August Heinrich Julius, Die Prüfung der Treue, oder: Die Irrungen,
254-256
257
undated.
Oswald, Die Theaterprobe, undated.
381-383
Töpfer, Karl Friedrich Gustav, Nehmt ein Exempel dran!, 1837.
585-587
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Index to Playbills: Chronological Listing
Unidentified two-act play, undated. Characters: Geheimrath, Angelika, Peter von Platz,
625-627
Baron Siegmund, Paul, Kellner/Husar.
Unidentified one-act play, undated. 17 scenes. Characters: Der Oberst, Auguste, Anton,
628
Neumann.
Index to Playbills: Chronological Listing.
The following listing of playbills in the collection is organized first by theater name, in alphabetical
order. Within each grouping, the playbills are then listed chronologically, with each entry detailing the
titles of plays, operas, or operettas advertised (the holdings include one copy of each playbill, unless
multiple copies are noted). The playbills also sometimes announce a musical program or give additional
information about performances, all the details of which could not be included here.
In addition to listing the work(s) featured on the playbill, this index also includes, at the end of the
entry, any additional works that are advertised only briefly, often as "In preparation." Those abbreviated
announcements sometimes include such information as the guest appearance of a certain actor or actress,
or the dedication of the performance as a benefit for a particular person, although often only the title of
the work appears.
In cases of works that are advertised by title only, the author's name has been supplied in brackets, if it
could be determined with reasonable certainty.
In the case of works that are adaptations, the author and title of the source work have been included to
whatever extent that information could be determined.
Following is an overview of the distribution of playbills among the theaters represented:
1. Aurora Dramatic Circle, Café Logeling, New York, N.Y. (one playbill)
2. The Bijou, Petersen's Hotel, Sea Isle City, N.J. (one playbill)
3. Concordia Operetten-Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. (one oversized playbill)––see also under Librettos,
series II, box 33
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Aurora Dramatic Circle, Café Logeling (New York, N.Y.)
4. Deutsches Stadt-Theater, Concordia Halle, Philadelphia, Pa. (one playbill)
5. Germania Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. (42 playbills and 14 oversized playbills)
6. Maennerchor Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. (one playbill and one oversized playbill)
7. Residenz-Theater, Berlin, Germany (one oversized playbill)
8. Stadt-Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. (one playbill)
9. Stadt-Theater, Kump’s Hall, Kansas City, Mo. (one oversized playbill)
10. Thalia Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. (three playbills and two oversized playbills)
11. Turner-Halle, Philadelphia, Pa. (four playbills and two oversized playbills)
12. Unidentified (one playbill)
Aurora Dramatic Circle, Café Logeling (New York, N.Y.).
Folder
675
Aurora Dramatic Circle playbill.
4 May 1889
Gute Nacht [by Rudolf Hahn]
The Bijou, Petersen’s Hotel (Sea Isle City, N.J.).
Folder
675
The Bijou playbill.
undated
"To-Night at the Bijou (Petersen’s Hotel)" (playbill is mostly in English)
* Wie man Landluft geniesst [by C. A. Görner]
* Barber and Banker (in English) [author unknown]
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Concordia Operetten-Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Concordia Operetten-Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
Concordia Operetten-Theater playbill (oversized, 26" x 10").
722
14-17 January [1882]
* Pech-Schulze, by Hermann Salingré, with music by Adolf Lang
Also advertised:
* Die Großherzogin von Geroldstein [presumably the comic opera composed by
Jacques Offenbach, with German text by Julius Hopp, based on the original French
libretto Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy]
Also listed as "in preparation":
* Olivette [composer/author unknown]
* Pariser Leben [presumably the operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach, with
German text by Karl Treumann, based on the original French libretto La vie
parisienne, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy]
* Der Waffenschmied [presumably the comic opera by Albert Lortzing]
Deutsches Stadt-Theater, Concordia Halle (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
676
Deutsches Stadt-Theater playbill.
22 March 1874
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die (heiligen) lustigen Vagabunden, by Gustav Räder,
with music by August Conradi
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Germania Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germania Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Germania Theater playbills: 1878.
Folder
677
Germania Theater playbill.
21 February 1878
* Die Afrikanerin, by Eduard Jacobson, with music by Thuiskon Hauptner
677
14 March 1878
* Die schöne Galathée, operetta composed by Franz von Suppé, with libretto by
Poly Henrion
Also advertised:
* Ein Wechsel, by F. Wolterich [=F. Woltereck]
* Die Wacht am Rhein, by Oscar Elsner
Germania Theater playbill (six copies).
677
31 March - 1 April 1878
* Königin Margot und die Hugenotten, by Friedrich Adami [based on the French
novel La reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (père)]
Germania Theater playbill (two copies).
4 April 1878
Die Bettlerin von Marienberg [= Die Bettlerin], by Julius Meissner [based on a
play in French by Michel Masson]
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677
Germania Theater playbills: 1879
Germania Theater playbill (bears handwritten emendations).
677
5 September 1878
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen, by Arthur Müller
677
7 November 1878
* Luftschlösser, oder: Viel Vergnügen, by Heinrich Wilken
Folder
678
2 January 1879
* Onkel Tom's Hütte [= Onkel Tom], by Therese von Megerle, based on the novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Germania Theater playbill (oversized, 21" x 9").
720
28-29 January [1879]
* Die eiserne Maske, by L. Schneider [based on the French play L'homme au
masque de fer by Auguste Jean François Arnould and Narcisse Fournier]
Also advertised:
* Die drei Langhänse [by Fritz Reuter]
Germania Theater playbill (three copies).
24-28 May 1879
* Citronen (Lemons), by Julius Rosen
Also advertised:
* Bruder Liederlich, by Emil Pohl, with music by August Conradi
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678
* Singvögelchen [by Eduard Jacobson, with music by Thuiskon Hauptner]
* Der Sohn der Wildniss [by Friedrich Halm]
Also advertised as "in preparation":
* Die Karlsschüler [by Heinrich Laube]
Germania Theater playbill (four copies).
678
19 June 1879
* Maria und Magdalena, by Paul Lindau
678
28 August - 1 September 1879
* Maria Stuart, by Friedrich Schiller
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit, by C. A. Paul
Germania Theater playbill (eight copies).
678
4-6 September 1879
* Die Hexe von Leonberg, by Arthur Müller
678
20-23 September 1879
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich [by Friedrich Kaiser]
Germania Theater playbill playbill (two copies).
6 November 1879
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678
720
6 November 1879
678
27 November 1879
* Mariette und Jeanetton, oder: Die Heirath vor der Trommel, by W. Friedrich,
based on a work in French by Alexandre Dumas (père)
Also advertised:
* Aschenbrödel, oder: Der gläserne Pantoffel, by C. A. Görner
* Philippine Welser [possibly the play by Oskar von Redwitz]
678
11 December 1879
* Ein Engel, by Julius Rosen
13-17 December [1879]
* Die alte Schachtel, by Emil Pohl, based on a play of the same title by O. F. Berg
Also advertised:
* Der Glöckner von Notre Dame [presumably the play by Charlotte BirchPfeiffer based on the French novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo]
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678
Folder
679
5 Feburary 1880
* Die Bettlerin von Marienberg [= Die Bettlerin], [by Julius Meissner, based on a
play in French] by Michel Masson
Germania Theater playbill (eleven copies).
679
11 March 1880
* Wenn man im Dunkeln küßt (A Kiss in the Dark), by Carl Mallachow and Oskar
Elsner
679
13-15 March 1880
* Berliner Kinder, by Hermann Salingré, with music by Thuiskon Hauptner
* Wohlthätige Frauen [by Adolph L'Arronge]
679
18 March 1880
27-28 April [1880]
* Ein jüdischer Dienstbote, by Carl Elmar
Also advertised:
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679
* Wohlthätige Frauen, by Adolph L'Arronge
679
15 August 1880
Germania Theater playbill (oversized poster, 36-3/4" x 15-1/2").
725
circa December 1880
* Uncle Tom's Cabin, color image of the character "Eliza" played by "Fräul.
Martha Wedemeyer," with banner: "Rial & Draper's / Ideal"
Presumably dates from the performance of Onkel Tom's Hütte (= Onkel Tom, by
Therese von Megerle, based on the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher
Stowe) on 9-10 December 1880 at Germania Theater––see Germania theater
newspaper, Die Bühne, 1880, no. 76, folder 692.
Folder
720
3 March [1881]
* Die Bettlerin von Marienberg, [by Julius Meissner, based on a play in French]
by Michel Masson
3-7 November 1881
* Die Dame mit den Camelien, [by L. von Alvensleben, based on the French novel
La dame aux camélias] by Alexandre Dumas (fils)
* Der Jongleur, oder: Die Kunstreiter von Berlin und Leipzig, by Emil Pohl
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720
Germania Theater playbill: 1882
* Pikante Enthüllungen [presumably the play by Emil Artur]
* Die Zigeuner [author unknown]
* 500,000 Teufel [author unknown]
Germania Theater playbill: 1882.
Folder
680
8-10 April [1882]
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich, by Friedrich Kaiser
Also advertised:
* Die Näherin [possibly the play by Ludwig Held with music by Carl Millöcker]
* Krethi und Plethi, by David Kalisch
Folder
Germania Theater playbill (seven copies).
680
10 May 1883
* Unsere Frauen [by Gustav von Moser and Franz von Schönthan]
720
10 May 1883
* Unsere Frauen, by Gustav von Moser and Franz von Schönthan
680
Germania Theater playbill (8 copies).
9-11 November 1883
* Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, by Arthur Müller
Also advertised:
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* Der Verschwender, by Ferdinand Raimund
* 500,000 Teufel [author unknown]
Germania Theater playbill (five copies).
680
6 December 1883
* Der Bibliothekar, by Gustav von Moser
680
23 December [1883]
Also advertised:
* Lumpaci Vagabundus, oder: Das liederliche Kleeblatt [= Der böse Geist
Lumpazivavagabundus, by Johann Nestroy]
* Die schöne Klosterbäuerin, oder: Der Meuchelmord auf dem Friedhofe, by
Franz Prüller
Folder
Germania Theater playbill (oversized, 16-1/2" x 6-1/2; two copies).
1 January [1884]
* Die Pariser Bluthochzeit, oder: Die Schreckensherrschaft in der Bartholomäus
Nacht [= Königin Margot und die Hugenotten], by Friedrich Adami based on the
French novel La reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (père)
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720
Germania Theater playbill (nine copies).
681
27 January 1884
681
30 January [1884]
* Eine Nacht in Berlin, oder: Onkel Bergemann, by Albert Hopf, with music by
Adolf Lang
681
5 October [1884]
* Die beiden Reichenmüller, by Anton Anno, with music by G. Bätz
Also advertised:
* Die Geheimnisse von Philadelphia [author unknown]
Also listed as "in preparation":
* Apfelröschen [by Heinrich Wilken and Oskar Justinus]
* Ein Gottesurtheil [author unknown]
* Schützliesel[possibly: Schützen-Lies’l, by Leon Treptow]
* Herzensfritz [presumably: Mein Herzensfritz, by Wilhelm Mannstädt and
Heinrich Wilken]
* Des Schulmeisters Töchterlein [by Krüger]
* Liebhabereien [presumably the play by Emil Pohl]
* Geierwally [presumably an adaptation of the novel Die Geier-Wally by
Wilhelmine von Hillern]
* Lumpenmüller's Lieschen [author unknown]
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681
30 November [1884]
* Das Volk wie es weint und lacht, by O. F. Berg and David Kalisch, with music
by August Conradi
Also advertised:
* Wilhelm Tell [by Friedrich Schiller]
Folder
682
5-6 April [1885]
Also advertised:
* Der Rattenfänger von Hameln, by C. A. Görner, based on the history of the
town of Hameln by Friedrich Sprenger and a chronical by Ehrick, with music by
Ernst Catenhusen
Folder
6-10 March [1886]
Also advertised:
* Die alte Jungfer, by Roderich Benedix
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682
Folder
Germania Theater playbill (on cardboard, with color image).
683
18 February 1887
Germania Theater playbill (two copies, one orange and one yellow).
683
28 April 1887
(a) - One of two small-format playbills bearing same date; includes an image of
scene from the play but no cast listing.
683
28 April 1887
(b) - One of two small-format playbills bearing the same date; includes cast listing
Germania Theater playbill (oversized, 26" x 10"; four copies).
721
28 April 1887
19-21 September [1887]
* Doctor Klaus, by Adolph L'Arronge
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721
721
3-5 November [1887]
* Gaston, der Mann mit der eisernen Maske [= Die eiserne Maske], by L.
Schneider based on the French play L'homme au masque de fer by Auguste Jean
François Arnould and Narcisse Fournier
Also advertised:
* Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich Schiller
Folder
721
10-15 February [1888]
by August Conradi
Also advertised:
* Die goldene Spinne [by Franz von Schönthan]
* Die Regimentstochter [by Carl Blum]
* Das Mädel ohne Geld [by Eduard Jacobson]
Folder
Germania Theater playbill (oversized, 25-1/2" x 18-1/2"; 3 copies).
4-9 March [1889]
* Unter der Erde, oder: Arbeit bringt Segen, by Carl Elmar, with music by Franz
von Suppé
* Cora, die Tochter des Pflanzers [= Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers], by Paul
Victor Wichmann [based on the French play Cora, ou: L'esclavage, by Jules
Barbier]
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723
Also advertised:
* Eine Ehe von heute, by Victorien Sardou, translated from the French by
Heinrich Laube
684
6 March 1889
(a) - One of the two playbills bearing the same date; features plot summary
Barbier]
684
6 March 1889
(b) - One of the two playbills bearing the same date
Barbier]
Folder
5 March 1890
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen, oder: Der alte Dessauer und sein Fähnrich, by
Arthur Müller
- Page 60 -
685
Germania Theater playbill (oversized, 25-1/2" x 18-1/2"; two copies).
724
11-15 April 1890
* Raub der Sabinerinnen (A Night Off), by Franz and Paul von Schönthan
* Die Dame mit den Camelien, [by L. von Alvensleben, based on the French
novel La dame aux camélias] by Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Also advertised:
* Die Spitzenkönigin [by Hugo Müller and Adolph L'Arronge]
* Die Ehre [by Hermann Sudermann]
Germania Theater playbill (oversized, 25-1/2" x 18-1/2").
724
10-11 November 1890
* Turandot, Prinzessin von China, by Friedrich Schiller
Also advertised:
* Nervös, by Gustav von Moser and Otto Girndt
Folder
685
8 April 1891
* Die Tochter der Hölle, oder: Mensch bezahle deine Schulden [= Die Tochter
Belial's], by Rudolf Kneisel
Germania Theater playbill (oversized, 25-1/2" x 18-1/2").
8-15 April [1891]
* Comtesse Helene, by J. B. Schweitzer and Hermann Salingré, with music by
Rudolf Bial
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724
Maennerchor Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Also advertised:
* Krieg im Frieden [by Gustav von Moser and Franz von Schönthan]
685
circa 28 November 1891
Maennerchor Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
Deutsches Theater, Maennerchor Halle playbill (oversized, 26" x 10").
722
26-28 April [circa 1878]
* Citronen, by Julius Rosen
Also advertised:
* Luftschlösser [author unknown; there are at least two plays by this title, one by
Wilhelm Mannstädt and A. Weller, and the other by Heinrich Wilken]
Maennerchor Halle playbill (in English and German).
28 March 1886
* Ein sehr delicater Auftrag, by Edward Bloch [=Eduard Bloch], based on the French
play Chez une petite dame [author of the original French play unknown]
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Residenz-Theater (Berlin, Germany)
Residenz-Theater (Berlin, Germany).
Folder
Residenz-Theater playbill (oversized, 16-1/2" x 14").
722
2 June 1873
* Die alten Junggesellen, [based on the French play Les vieux garçons] by Victorien
Sardou [translator unknown]
Stadt-Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
686
Stadt-Theater playbill.
14 January 1877
(date according to handwritten annotation)
* Königin Margot und die Hugenotten, by Friedrich Adami [based on the French
novel La reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (père)]
Stadt-Theater, Kump's Hall (Kansas City, Mo.).
Folder
Stadt-Theater (Kump's Halle) playbill (oversized, 26" x 10").
4 March 1883
* Das Haus Rothschild, oder: Wie man den Grundstein zu Millionen legt, by Adolph
Reich
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Thalia Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Thalia Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
687
Thalia Theater playbill (two copies).
17 March 1886
* Das Volk wie es weint und lacht, by O. F. Berg and David Kalisch, with music by
August Conradi
Thalia Theater playbill (oversized, 26" x 10").
722
22-24 March 1886
* Berliner Kinder, oder: Was sich die Kaserne erzählt, by Hermann Salingré, with
music by Thuiskon Hauptner
Also advertised:
* Catharina Howard [possibly: Katharina Howard, by Eduard Jerrmann]
Thalia Theater playbill (fragment of the oversize playbill above; two copies).
687
[22-24 March 1886]
Thalia Theater playbill (oversized, 26" x 10").
28 March 1886
* Lucretia Borgia, by Alexander Preuss based on the French play Lucrèce Borgia
by Victor Hugo
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Turner Halle (Philadelphia, Pa.)
687
Thalia Theater playbill (eight copies).
Week of 1 April [1886]
* Lucretia Borgia [by Alexander Preuss based on the French play Lucrèce Borgia
by Victor Hugo]
Also advertised:
* Pech-Schulze [by Hermann Salingré, with music by Adolf Lang]
687
Thalia Theater playbill (six copies).
[circa 1886]
* Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer based on the French
novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Turner Halle (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
Sommer-Theater in der Turner-Halle playbill.
688
29 July 1875
Deutsches Theater in der Turner Halle playbill (oversized, 26" x 10").
16 September 1875
* Sternenjungfrau, oder: Der letzte Mensch! by Carl Haffner, with music by Theodor
Schaumberg (music director for the Turner-Halle Theater)
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Unidentified playbill
Deutsches Theater in der Turner Halle playbill (oversized, 26" x 10"; two
copies).
722
8 June 1876
* Robert und Bertram, by Gustav Räder, with music by August Conradi
Turner Halle Theater play bill (fourteen copies).
688
5-6 December [1876]
* Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott [= Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott], by Arthur Müller
Also advertised:
* Herr Mengler, oder: Endlich hat er es doch gut gemacht [by Albin von
Meddlhammer]
688
Turner Halle Theater playbill.
14 December 1876
Therese Krones, by Carl Haffner, with music by Adolf Müller
688
Turner-Halle playbill.
13 February 1879
* Die Sternenjungfrau, oder: Der letzte Mensch, by Carl Haffner
Unidentified playbill.
Folder
"Theatralische Abend-Unterhaltung" (unidentified theater).
23 October 1896
* Die Tante aus Schwaben, by Feodor von Wehl
* Li Hong Joe, der Rattenkönig [author unknown]
* Das Schwert des Damokles, by Gustav Heinrich Gans von und zu Putlitz
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Index to Theater Newspapers: Chronological Listing
Index to Theater Newspapers: Chronological Listing.
The organization of the following listing of theater newspapers is comparable to that of the above
Index to Playbills––the items are grouped first by theater name, in alphabetical order, and then listed
chronologically, with each entry detailing the plays, operas, or operettas announced in that issue. (The
holdings include one copy of each issue, unless multiple copies are noted.)
Dates primarily reflect the way the newspaper issue is dated; it was not possible to include the exact
date(s) of performance of the individual works advertised.
The announcements for the featured works in any given issue typically give a full cast listing. As in the
Index to Playbills, this index also includes, at the end of the entry, works that are advertised only briefly,
often as "In preparation." Those abbreviated announcements sometimes include such information as
the guest appearance of a certain actor or actress, or the dedication of the performance as a benefit for a
particular person, although often only the title of the work appears.
In cases of works that are advertised by title only, the author's name has been supplied in brackets, if it
could be determined with reasonable certainty.
In the case of works that are adaptations, the author and title of the source work have been included to
whatever extent that information could be determined.
Please note that the details given in this index about the content of theater newspapers concern only
the theatrical performances advertised. Other types of content, including announcements of concerts,
festivals, and other events, could not be taken into account here. The newspapers also usually give
information about the theater management, and carry numerous business advertisements.
Following is an overview of the distribution of newspapers among theaters represented, and of masthead
changes:
1. Germania Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. (102 issues)
* April 1878–April 1881; November 1881: Die Bühne
* May 1882–October 1885; April 1886-October 1890: Germania Theater Zeitung
* December 1890–January 1894: Germania Theater
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Germania Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.)
* November 1894–1895: Germania Theatre
2. Harmonie Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. (two issues)
* season 1893-1894: Harmonie Programme
* season 1897-1898: Harmonie Program
3. New Park Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. (one issue)
* season 1890-1891: New Park Theatre Programme (one issue)
4. Saenger-Halle, Newark, N.J. (one issue)
* 17 November 1889
Note: Saenger-Halle appears to have been an out-of-town venue for Sunday performances of the theater
company that otherwise performed at Germania Theater in Philadelphia.
5. Thalia Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. (five issues)
* December 1885–March 1886: Thalia Theater Programme
6. Turner-Halle, Philadelphia, Pa. (one issue)
* 22-27 May 1881: Die Bühne. Theater-Programm
Note: Turner-Halle appears to have functioned as a temporary venue in Philadelphia for the theater
company that otherwise performed at Germania Theater.
Germania Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Germania Theater newspapers: 1878.
Folder
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, vol. 1, no. 1.
19 April 1878
* Torpedoes, oder: Ein Staats-Geheimnis! by J. B. von Schweitzer and Hermann
Salingré
* Die Schleichhändler, by Ernst Raupach
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Germania Theater newspapers: 1878
690
26 April 1878
* Die Tochter der Harfenistin, by Rudolf Kneisel and Eduard Jacobson, with
music by Gustav Michaelis
* Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer based on the
French novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
* Strauß und Lanner, by Anton Langer
703
24 May 1878
* Der Viehhändler aus Ober-Österreich, oder: Stadt und Land [= Stadt und
Land], by Friedrich Kaiser
* Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Pauvrette, W. Lautz
703
14 June 1878
* East Lynne [translation and dramatic adaptation of the English novel by Mrs.
Henry Wood; translator/adapter unknown]
* Schloß Greiffenstein, oder: Der Sammtschuh, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabund, by Gustav Räder
28 June 1878
* Lockere Zeisige! by O. F. Berg and Eduard Jacobson
* Der Verschwender, by Ferdinand Raimund
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690
5 July 1878
* Das Milchmädchen aus Schöneberg, by Wilhelm Mannstädt
* Die beiden Waisen [translation of the French play Les deux orphelines, by
Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon]
* Die alte Schachtel, by Emil Pohl [based on a play of the same title by O. F.
Berg]
690
23 August 1878
* Die Rose von Bacharach, by Theodor Gassmann
* Die Anna-Liese, oder: Der alten Dessauer Jugendliebe [= Die Anna-Lise], by
Hermann Hersch
* Die Mönche, oder: Das Geheimniss eines Nonnenklosters, by M. Tenelli
703
30 August 1878
* Theater-Schülerin, oder: Verfehlter Beruf, by Emil Pohl, with music by Heinrich
Wilhelm
4 October 1878
* Eine Nacht in Berlin, by Albert Hopf
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit, by C. A. Paul (B. Scheiden)
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* Der Maurer von Ronquerolles, oder: Die Memoiren des Teufels [= Die
Memoiren des Teufels], by L. Schneider, based on the French play Les mémoires
du diable, by Etienne Arago and Paul Vermond (pseudonym of Eugène Guinot)
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, vol. 1, no. 26 (two copies).
703
11 October 1878
* Gewonnene Herzen, by Hugo Müller
* Frauenkampf, by Olfers based on the French play Bataille de dames by
Eugène Scribe and Ernest LeGouvé
* Eine silberne Hochzeit, oder: Das Jubel-Paar, by M. Bauermeister
* O diese Weiber, by Emil Pohl
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, vol. 1, no. 28 (three copies).
690
25 October 1878
* Deborah, by S. H. Mosenthal
* Aschenbrödel, by C. A. Görner
1 November 1878
* Rose Michel, by Victorien Sardou [original in French; translator/adapter
unknown]
* Singvögelchen, operetta by Eduard Jacobson, with music by Thuiskon
Hauptner
* Ein freier Mann, by Julius Rosen
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703
8 November 1878
* Die Schillerlocke, oder: Gräfin Male [= Der Budiker und sein Kind], by
Hermann Salingré and Eduard Jacobson
* Einen Jux will er sich machen, by Johann Nestroy
* Maria Stuart, by Friedrich Schiller
Philadelphia Tageblatt – miscellaneous newspaper clipping (not a theater
690
newspaper); contains an ad for that day's performance at Germania Theater.
8 November 1878
* Luftschlösser, oder Viel Vergnügen [by Heinrich Wilken]
690
15 November 1878
* Die rothe Liesel, by Betty Young, with music by Lauer
* Dorf und Stadt, oder: Das Lorle vom Schwarzwald, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer,
based on the stories (Dorfgeschichten) of Berthold Auerbach
* Mein Leopold (My Son), by Adolph L'Arronge, with music by Rudolf Bial
29 November 1878
* Othello, der Mohr von Venedig, by Shakespeare [translator unknown]
* Schuster-Pluster, oder: Wenn Leute Geld haben! [= Wenn Leute Geld
haben!], by August Weirauch, with music by Thuiskon Hauptner
* Der jüdische Dienstbote [= Ein jüdischer Dienstbote], by Carl Elmar
Also advertised:
* Hasemann's Töchter [by Adolph L'Arronge]
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Folder
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, vol. 1, no. 45 (one complete and one
703
fragmentary copy).
21 February 1879
* Washington, Befreier Nord-Amerikas, by Georg Schönfeldt
* Die rothe Liesel, by Betty Young
* Der Stumme von Manchester, by Fr. Rainer
Also advertised:
* Der Hypochonder, oder: Unsere Stadtväter (Our Alderman), by Gustav von
Moser
* Uriel Acosta, by Karl Gutzkow
* Heidemann und Sohn, by Hugo Müller
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, vol. 1, no. 48 (two copies).
14 March 1879
* Doctor Klaus, by Adolph L'Arronge
* Mathilde, ein Weib wie es sein soll, by Roderich Benedix
* Ihrer Majestät Schiff Pinafore, oder: Die Seemannsbraut, comic opera by W.
S. Gilbert, with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan (title of original: H. M. S. Pinafore),
translated by Biedermann
Also advertised:
* Uriel Acosta, by Karl Gutzkow
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Folder
Germania Theater, Die Bühne 1880, no. 1 (two copies).
691
16-22 March 1880
* Englisch, oder: Banquier Ippelberger aus Leipzig, by C. A. Görner
* Wiener in Berlin, by Karl von Holtei
* Harun al Raschid und seine Schwiegermutter, by Gustav von Moser
691
Germania Theater (three copies).
15-19 May 1880
* Die Sternenjungfrau, oder: Der letzte Mensch, by Carl Haffner
* Schuster-Pluster, oder: Wenn Leute Geld haben! [= Wenn Leute Geld
haben!], by August Weirauch
* Das böse Fräulein [by Rudolf Kneisel]
Germania Theater, Die Bühne 1880, no. 13 (three copies).
691
29-31 May 1880
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Ober-Österreich, by Friedrich
Kaiser
Germania Theater, Die Bühne 1880, no. 19.
19-24 June 1880
Also advertised:
* Blinde Kuh, by Rudolf Kneisel
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691
25 July 1880
* Licht, mehr Licht! oder: Die Tochter der Hölle [= Die Tochter Belial's], by
Rudolf Kneisel
Germania Theater, Die Bühne 1880, no. 30.
691
15 August 1880
Germania Theater, Die Bühne 1880, no. 50 (four copies).
691
9-11 October 1880
* Der Budiker und sein Kind, by Hermann Salingré and Eduard Jacobson
Also advertised:
* Faust, by Johann Wolgang von Goethe
* Quecksilber [by Leon Treptow]
692
2-4 November 1880
Also advertised:
* Durchgegangene Weiber, by Alois Berla
20-25 November 1880
by August Conradi
Also advertised:
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* Der Löwe des Tages [presumably the play by Heinrich Wilken, with music by
Carl Millöcker]
* Der Sohn auf Reisen [presumably the play by Leopold Feldmann]
* Lumpacivagabundus [= Der böse Geist Lumpazivavagabundus, by Johann
Nestroy]
692
27 November - 2 December 1880
* Aschenbrödel, oder: Der gläserne Pantoffel, by C. A. Görner
Also advertised:
* Unter dem Gaslicht (Under the Gaslight), by Wolff [presumably a German
adaptation of the American play Under the Gaslight, by Augustin Daly]
* Die Fremden, oder: Der Heimathschein, by Roderich Benedix
Germania Theater, Die Bühne 1880, no. 76 (four copies).
692
9-15 December 1880
* Onkel Tom's Hütte [= Onkel Tom], by Therese von Megerle, based on the novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Also advertised:
* Die Spitzenkönigin, by Hugo Müller [and Adolph L'Arronge]
* Narciss, by Albert Emil Brachvogel
Folder
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, 1881, no. 4 (two copies).
8-13 January 1881
Also advertised:
* Die zweite Frau, by Blumenreich [possibly: Paul Blumenreich]
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* Christ und Jude [possibly the play of this title by Adolph Reich; the title is also
the same as that of the first part of Arthur Müller's Die Hexe von Leonberg]
* Die beiden Reichenmüller, by Anton Anno
* Blitzmädel [by Carl Costa]
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, 1881, no. 12.
693
29 January - 3 February 1881
* Robert und Bertram, by Gustav Räder
Also advertised:
* Die Dame mit den Camelien (Camille) [by L. von Alvensleben, based on the
French novel La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas (fils)]
* Die Reise durch Philadelphia in 24 Stunden, by William Schoppe; described as
a local farce written especially for Germania Theater
* Blitzmädel [by Carl Costa]
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, 1881, no. 13 (four copies).
693
3-5 February 1881
* Die Dame mit den Camelien [by L. von Alvensleben, based on the French novel
La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas (fils)]
Also advertised:
* Die Reise durch Philadelphia in 24 Stunden, by William Schoppe; described as
a local farce written especially for Germania Theater
15-17 February 1881
* Die Dame mit den Camelien (Camille), [by L. von Alvensleben, based on the
French novel La dame aux camélias] by Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Also advertised:
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* Sarah Bernhardt, by Paul Löbel (the author was also an actor in the play,
appearing from Concordia Theater, Baltimore)
* Heinrich Heine [= Junge Leiden], by A. Mels
* Verfehlter Beruf [by Emil Pohl]
* Die drei Junggesellen [by Roderich Benedix]
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, 1881, no. 25 (three copies).
694
3-7 March 1881
Also advertised:
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich, by Friedrich
Kaiser
694
4-10 March 1881
* Stadt und land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich, by Friedrich Kaiser
Also advertised:
* Hinko, oder: König und Freiknecht [presumably Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's play
Hinko, based on the novel Der Freiknecht by Ludwig Storch]
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, 1881, no. 31 (in purple).
17-24 March 1881
Barbier]
Also advertised:
* Ein geadelter Kaufmann [presumably the play by C. A. Görner]
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* Der Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle [= Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine
Kapelle], by Rudolf Kneisel
694
24-28 March 1881
Also advertised:
* Der Verschwender, by Nestroy [sic] [the author name is presumably an error;
the play is a well known work by Ferdinand Raimund]
* Hamlet [by Shakespeare; translator unknown]
* Eine vornehme Ehe [most likely the play by Heinrich Laube, based on a French
work by Octave Feuillet]
694
7-11 April 1881
* Die Schuld einer Frau, by Emil Neumann [based on the French play Le
supplice d’une femme, by Alexandre Dumas (fils) in collaboration with Emile de
Girardin]
* Das Lorle, oder: Ein Berliner im Schwarzwald, by August Wilhelm Hesse
Also advertised:
* Das Mädchen vom Dorfe, oder: Baron, Bauer und Handwerker [by Johann
Krüger]
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, 1881-1882, no. 20 (two copies).
3-7 November 1881
* Die Dame mit den Camelien,[by L. von Alvensleben, based on the French novel
La dame aux camélias] by Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Also advertised:
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* Der Jongleur, by Emil Pohl
Folder
Germania Theater, Die Bühne, 1881-1882, no. 79.
703
5-7 May 1882
* Emilia Galotti, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
* Die Tochter der Hölle [= Die Tochter Belial's], by Rudolf Kneisel
Folder
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1882-83, no. 34.
695
weeking ending 3 March 1883
695
week ending 12 May 1883
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1882-83, 8th week (two copies).
4-11 November 1883
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695
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1882-83, 11th week.
695
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1882-83, 13th week (three copies).
695
9-15 December 1883
Also advertised:
* Bruder Liederlich, by Emil Pohl
695
23-29 December 1883
Folder
30 December 1883 - 6 January 1884
* Die Pariser Bluthochzeit, oder: Die Schreckensherrschaft in der Bartholomäus
Nacht [= Königin Margot und die Hugenotten], by Friedrich Adami based on the
French novel La reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (père)
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695
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1883-1884, 20th week (four copies).
695
27 January - 2 February 1884
* Eine Nacht in Berlin, oder: Onkel Bergemann, by Albert Hopf, with music by
Adolf Lang
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1883-1884, vol. 3, 16th week.
704
from August Conradi
Also advertised:
Folder
Germania Theater Zeitung, 29th week (two copies).
704
4-12 April 1885
(a) - First of two different issues bearing the date 4-12 April 1885
Germania Theater Zeitung, vol. 3, 29th week (two copies of the first page
only).
4-12 April 1885
(b) - Second of two different issues bearing the date 4-12 April 1885
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704
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1885-1886.
704
week ending 24 October 1885
* Die Anna-Liese [=Die Anna-Lise], by Hermann Hersch
Also advertised:
* Die Anti-Xantippe, oder: Krieg den Frauen, by Rudolf Kneisel
* Das Stiftungsfest, by Gustav von Moser
* Der Registrator auf Reisen, by Adolph L’Arronge
* Die goldene Spinne, by Franz von Schönthan
* Der Salon-Tyroler, by Gustav von Moser
* Frau Director Striese (sequel to Der Raub der Sabinerinnen), by Franz and
Paul von Schönthan
* Sidonie, oder: Fromont Jr. und Riesler Sr. [translation of the French play
Fromont jeune et Risler aîné, by Alphonse Daudet and Adolphe Belot, an
adaptation of the novel of the same title by Daudet]
* Der Schwabenstreich [by Franz von Schönthan]
Folder
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1885-1886.
week ending 24 April 1886
* Die Tochter der Hölle [= Die Tochter Belial's], Rudolf Kneisel
Also advertised:
* Der Bibliothekar (The Private Secretary), by Gustav von Moser
* Harun al Raschid und seine Schwiegermutter, by Gustav von Moser
* Griseldis, das Köhlerkind [by Friedrich Halm]
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704
704
Germania Theater Zeitung, no. 29.
weeking ending 18 December 1886
* Die Anna-Lise, by Hermann Hersch
Also advertised:
* Handwerk hat goldenen Boden[by Wilhelm Mannstädt]
* Der Stabstrompeter [by Wilhelm Mannstädt]
Folder
705
week ending 19 February 1887
Also advertised:
* Unsere Sclaven, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
* Die schöne Ungarin [by Wilhelm Mannstädt und A. Weller, with music by
Gustav Steffens]
week ending 12 March 1887
Also advertised:
* Ein berühmter Rechtsfall [translation of the French play Une cause célèbre,
by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon]
* Romeo und Julie, by Shakespeare (title of original: Romeo and Juliet)
[translator unknown]
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705
705
* Ein Tropfen Gift, by Oscar Blumenthal
Also advertised:
* Fedora [translation of the French play Fédora, by Victorien Sardou]
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1886-1887, no. 43 (two copies).
705
Also advertised:
* Mensch ärgere dich nicht! [by Leon Treptow]; performance tentatively
scheduled at the Thalia Theater
705
week ending 24 September 1887
* Doctor Klaus, by Adolph L'Arronge Also advertised as "in preparation":
* Die Sternschnuppe [by Gustav von Moser and Otto Girndt]
* Unser Doctor [by Leon Treptow and Louis Herrmann]
* Die große Unbekannte [by Rudolf Kneisel]
* Der deutsche Michel [by Louis Nötel]
* Kyritz-Pyritz, by Heinrich Wilken and Oskar Justinus
week ending 5 November 1887
Also advertised:
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705
* Die beiden Reichenmüller, by Anton Anno Also advertised as "in preparation":
705
* Die Beiden Reichenmüller, by Anton Anno
Also advertised:
* Kyritz-Pyritz, by Heinrich Wilken and Oskar Justinus
705
Also advertised:
week ending 3 December 1887
* Reif-Reifling, by Gustav von Moser
Also advertised:
* Ehrliche Arbeit, by Heinrich Wilken
* Jane Eyre, die Waise von Lowood [by Heinrich Wilken, based on the novel
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë]
* Der Wald-Teufel, by Wilhelm Mannstädt with music by Gustav Steffens
* Ihre Familie, by Julius Stinde and Georg Engels [based on stories by Stinde]
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696
Folder
706
week ending 21 January 1888
* Mein Leopold, by Adolph L'Arronge, with music by Rudolf Bial
Also advertised:
* Spottvögel, by Wilhelm Mannstädt, with music by Gustav Steffens
* Richard III [by Shakespeare; translator unknown]
* Der tolle Wenzel, by Wilhelm Mannstädt
* 200,000 [sic] Mark Belohnung [= 20,000 Mark Belohnung, by Leon Treptow]
706
by August Conradi
Also advertised:
* Der tolle Wenzel, by Wilhelm Mannstädt
* Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld, by Ludwig Anzengruber
* 20,000 Mark Belohnung [by Leon Treptow], with music by Paul Sentz
* Anna, zu Dir ist mein liebster Gang [by Julius Braun]
* Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich [= Stadt und Land], by Friedrich Kaiser
Also advertised:
* Die Regimentstochter [by Carl Blum]
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* Die lustigen Weiber von Kyritz-Pyritz [= Kyritz-Pyritz], by Heinrich Wilken
and Oskar Justinus
* Die Seemannsbraut, oder: Ihre Familie [= Ihre Familie by Julius Stinde and
Georg Engels, based on stories by Stinde about the family Buchholz]
* 20,000 Mark Belohnung [by Leon Treptow, with music by Paul Sentz]
* Der Trompeter von Säckingen [presumably the opera composed by Victor
Ernst Nessler based, on the epic poem of the same title by Joseph Victor von
Scheffel]
* Goldener Boden [by Wilhelm Mannstädt]
Germania Theater Zeitung, season 1888/1889 (two copies).
706
Also advertised:
* Der Salon-Tyroler, by Gustav von Moser
* Othello, by Shakespeare [translator unknown]
Also advertised as "tentatively scheduled":
* Fiesco, oder: Die Verschwörung zu Genua, by Friedrich Schiller
Folder
Germania Theater Zeitung, 1888/1889 (three copies).
week ending 5 January 1889
* Onkel Bergemann's Abenteuer in der Residenz [= Eine Nacht in Berlin], by
Albert Hopf, with music by Adolf Lang
Also advertised:
* Höhere Töchter, by Wilhelm Mannstädt
* Schmerle's Geheimniss, by Rudolf Kneisel
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706
* Othello, der Mohr von Venedig [by Shakespeare; translator unknown]
706
(a) - The first of two different issues bearing the date 9 February 1889 (coming
performances dated 4-9 February).
* Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle, by Rudolf Kneisel
Also advertised:
* Der Veilchenfresser, by Gustav von Moser
706
Germania Theater Zeitung, 1888/1889.
(b) - The second of two different issues bearing the date 9 February 1889 (coming
performances dated 7-13 February).
* Der Veilchenfresser, by Gustav von Moser
Also advertised:
* Der Heirath vor der Trommel, oder: Die beiden Regimentstöchter [possibly:
Mariette und Jeanetton, oder: Die Heirath vor der Trommel, by W. Friedrich,
based on a work in French by Alexandre Dumas (père)]
Germania Theater Zeitung, 1888/1889 (two copies).
(a) - The first of two different issues bearing the date 2 March 1889 (coming
performances dated 25 February - 2 March).
Also advertised:
- Page 89 -
707
* Preciosa, by Pius Alexander Wolff
707
(b) - The second of two different issues bearing the date 2 March 1889 (coming
performances are dated 28 February - 6 March).
Also advertised:
* Unter der Erde, oder: Arbeit bringt Segen, by Carl Elmar
Barbier]
707
(a) - The first of two different issues of the newspaper bearing the date 9 March
1889.
Also advertised:
* Pech-Schulze, by Hermann Salingré
* Der weiße Rabe, oder: Ein ehrlicher Makler, by Leon Treptow
(b) - The second of two different issues bearing the date 9 March 1889.
- Page 90 -
707
Barbier]
Also advertised:
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabunden, by Gustav Räder
707
Also advertised:
* Kabale und Liebe, by Friedrich Schiller
* Eine moderne Ehe [author unknown]
* Die Grille, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer [based on the story "Le grillon" by
George Sand]
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* Die Verschwörung der Frauen, oder: Der alte Dessauer und sein Fähnrich, by
Arthur Müller
Also advertised:
* Die Lachtaube [by Eduard Jacobson]
* Die zärtlichen Verwandten, by Roderich Benedix
* Die Braut von Messina, oder: Die feindlichen Brüder, by Friedrich Schiller
- Page 91 -
697
* Die wilde Jagd [by Ludwig Fulda]
* Großstädtisch, by J. B. von Schweitzer
707
* Großstädtisch, by J. B. von Schweitzer
Also advertised:
* Die relegierten Studenten, by Roderich Benedix
* Leuchtkugeln [by Wilhelm Mannstädt]
*
*
*
*
*
Ein geadelter Kaufmann [presumably the play by C. A. Görner]
Die zärtlichen Verwandten, by Roderich Benedix
Die große Glocke, by Oscar Blumenthal
Die Lachtaube [by Eduard Jacobson]
Philippine Welser [possibly the play by Oskar von Redwitz]
707
* Der Raub der Sabinerinnen, by Franz and Paul von Schönthan
* Die Dame mit den Camelien (Camille), [by L. von Alvensleben, based on the
French novel La dame aux camélias] by Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Also advertised:
* Die Spitzenkönigin [by Hugo Müller and Adolph L'Arronge]
* Unser Otto [by Wilhelm Mannstädt]
* Die Ehre, by Hermann Sudermann
* Therese Krones, by Carl Haffner, with music by Adolf Müller
Also advertised:
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697
* Sein Steckenpferd, by Leon Treptow
708
* Ein Tropfen Gift, by Oscar Blumenthal
Also advertised:
* Daniela, by Felix Philippi
* Goldene Berge [by Heinrich Wilken and Eduard Jacobson]
* Ferreol [translation by R. Schelcher of the French play Andrea Férreol, by
Victorien Sardou]
* Engelmann's Rache [presumably the play by W. Büller and O. Voges]
* Halbe Dichter [presumably the play by Julius Rosen]
* Der Weltumsegler wider Willen, by Gustav Räder
* Verfehlter Beruf [by Emil Pohl]
* Die Schule des Lebens, oder: Die Königstochter als Bettlerin [by Ernst
Raupach]
Folder
698
Germania Theater, 1890/1891.
Also advertised:
* Der Rattenfänger von Hameln [by Braun]
* Böse Zungen, by Heinrich Laube
* Die Haubenlerche, by Ernst von Wildenbruch
* Sodom's Ende, by Hermann Sudermann
* Der Schatten, by Paul Lindau
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* Flotte Weiber [by Leon Treptow]
708
Also advertised:
* Comtesse Helene [by J. B. Schweitzer and Hermann Salingré, with music by
Rudolf Bial]
* Krieg im Frieden, by Gustav von Moser and Franz von Schönthan
* Die Leibrente, by Gustav von Moser
708
* Heine's junge Leiden [= Junge Leiden], by A. Mels
Also advertised:
* Nemesis, oder: Eine Civil-Ehe [by Adolph Reich]
698
* Er muß auf's Land, by W. Friedrich
* Wenn man im Dunkeln küßt, by Carl Mallachow and Oskar Elsner
Also advertised:
* Die Maurer von Berlin, by Emil Pohl [with music by Rudolf Bial]
- Page 94 -
Germania Theater (half-page fragment).
698
[circa week ending 17 October 1891]
* Wenn man im Dunkeln küßt, by Carl Mallachow and Oskar Elsner
Also advertised:
* Die Maurer von Berlin, by Emil Pohl [with music by Rudolf Bial]
* Die beiden Balletmädchen, oder: Ihre Familie [= Ihre Familie], by Julius
Stinde and Georg Engels [based on stories by Stinde about the family Buchholz]
* Gräfin Lea, by Paul Lindau
Germania Theater, 1891/1892 (two copies and an extra second page).
708
(a) - The first of two different issues bearing the date 7 November 1891 (coming
performances dated 2-7 November).
* Einer von unsere Leut', by David Kalisch and O. F. Berg
Also advertised:
* Der Raub der Sabinerinnen, by Franz and Paul von Schönthan
* Der rechte Schlüssel, by Francis Stahl
Germania Theater, 1891/1892 (includes two copies of variant second page).
(b) - The second of two different issues bearing the date 7 November 1891
(coming performances dated 9-14 November).
* Der rechte Schlüssel, by Francis Stahl
* Die Maurer von Berlin, by Emil Pohl, with music by Rudolf Bial.
Also advertised:
* Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua, by Friedrich Schiller
* Eine leichte Person, by Anton Bittner
- Page 95 -
708
Germania Theater, 1891/1892 (two copies).
708
* Ein delikater Auftrag [= Ein sehr delikater Auftrag], by Eduard Bloch
* Das Schwert des Damokles, by Gustav Heinrich Gans von und zu Putlitz
* Der bengalische Tiger, by Otto Randolf [based on the French Un tigre du
Bengale by Édouard Brisebarre and M. Marc-Michel]
Also advertised:
* Der schwarze Schleier [presumably the play by Oscar Blumenthal]
* Das Mädel vom Dorf [= Das Mädchen vom Dorfe, by Johann Krüger]
* Der Goldbauer [presumably the play by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer]
* Entspector Bräsig [= Inspektor Bräsig] [most likely the adaptation by
Theodor Gassmann and Johann Krüger of the Low-German novel Ut mine
stomtid by Fritz Reuter]
Folder
709
* Narciss, by Albert Emil Brachvogel
* Die Räuber, by Friedrich Schiller
Also advertised:
* Hamlet [by Shakespeare; translator unknown]
* Trotzköpfchen [by Oscar Blumenthal]
* Der Hüttenbesitzer [most likely a translation/adaptation of the French novel
and play Le maître de forges by Georges Ohnet]
- Page 96 -
Germania Theater, 1891/1892 (two copies).
709
Also advertised:
* Drei Paar Schuhe [presumably the play by Karl Görlitz, with music by Carl
Millöcker]
* Die Salon-Tyrolerin, by Gustav von Moser
* Pension Schöller, by Carl Laufs
709
Also advertised:
* 's Lorle [author unknown: possibly Das Lorle, by August Wilhelm Hesse, or
Dorf und Stadt, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer]
* Wohlthätige Frauen [by Adolph L'Arronge]
* Die Schuld einer Frau [by Emil Neumann, based on the French play Le
supplice d'une femme, by Alexandre Dumas (fils) in collaboration with Emile de
Girardin]
* Nora, Nora, by Henrik Ibsen (title of the Norwegian original: Et Dukkehjem;
English: A Doll's House) [translator unknown]
698
* Die Nixe, by Friedrich Gustav Triesch
* Der Ehemann vor der Thür, by Victorien Sardou
[title of the original French play: La Papillonne; translator unknown – possibly
August Förster, whose translation of that work was published as Flattersucht]
- Page 97 -
* Die schöne Galathée [operetta composed by Franz von Suppé, presumably with
libretto by Poly Henrion]
* Die Tochter der Hölle [= Die Tochter Belial's], by Rudolf Kneisel
Also advertised:
* Unsere Don Juans, by Leon Treptow
* Flotte Weiber [by Leon Treptow]
* Papageno [presumably the play by Rudolf Kneisel]
Germania Theater [1891/1892] (fragment, second page only).
698
[circa April-May 1892]
* Die schöne Galathée, operetta composed by Franz von Suppé [presumably with
libretto by Poly Henrion]
* Mein neuer Hut [by Max Bernstein]
* Die Verlobung bei der Laterne, operetta by Jacques Offenbach [original French
libretto, Le mariage aux lanternes, by Michel Carré und Léon Battu; translator
unknown]
709
Germania Theater, [1892/1893] no. 1.
week beginning 21 September 1892
* Schuldig! by Richard Voss
* Der Bibliothekar (Private Secretary), by Gustav von Moser
Also advertised:
* Mein Herzensfritz, by Wilhelm Mannstädt and Heinrich Wilken
698
week beginning 24 October 1892
* Der Wald-Teufel, by Wilhelm Mannstädt, with music by Gustav Steffens
Also advertised:
* Der Störenfried, by Roderich Benedix
- Page 98 -
* Die Quizows [presumably: Die Quitzows, by Ernst von Wildenbruch]
* Der Dorfbarbier [by Paul Weidmann and Joseph Weidmann, with music by
Johann Schenk]
* Der Soldatenfreund [author unknown]
* Satisfaktion [possibly the play by Alexander Baron von Roberts]
* Orpheus in der Unterwelt [presumably the opera composed by Jacques
Offenbach, with German libretto by Ludwig Kalisch, based on the original French
libretto Orphée aux enfers, by Hector Jonathan Crémieux
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698
week beginning 1 February 1893
* Schützen-Lies'l, by Leon Treptow, with music by Gustav Steffens
* Die Waise aus Lowood, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, based on the novel Jane
Eyre by Currer Bell [pseudonym of Charlotte Brontë]
* Die Anna-Liese [= Die Anna-Lise], by Hermann Hersch
Germania Theater, [1892/1893] no. 37 (two copies).
week beginning 3 April 1893
* Gewonnene Herzen, by Hugo Müller, with music by Rudolf Bial
* Philippine Welser, by Oskar von Redwitz
* Eine Nacht in der Residenz [= Eine Nacht in Berlin], by Albert Hopf, with
music by Adolf Lang
* Die Waise aus Lowood, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, based on the novel Jane
Eyre by Currer Bell [pseudonym of Charlotte Brontë]
Also advertised:
- Page 99 -
709
* Die Karls-Schüler [= Die Karlsschüler, by Heinrich Laube]
Folder
Germania Theater, [1893/1894] no. 14 (two copies and one incomplete version,
710
sides two and three only).
week beginning 11 January 1894
* Stadt-Wahlen, oder: Roderich Heller [= Roderich Heller], by Franz von
Schönthan
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabunden, by Gustav Räder
* Luftschlösser, by Wilhelm Mannstädt and A. Weller, with music by [Adolf?]
Mohr
* Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald [presumably the play by Ludwig
Ganghofer and Hans Neuert]
week beginning 18 January 1894
* Lorbeerbaum und Bettelstab, oder: Drei Winter eines deutschen Dichters, by
Karl von Holtei
* Luftschlösser, by Wilhelm Mannstädt and A. Weller, with music by [Adolf?]
Mohr
* Der Viehhändler aus Ober-Österreich [= Stadt und Land], by Friedrich Kaiser
* Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer based on the
French novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
* Geigenmacher von Mittenwald [presumably the play by Ludwig Ganghofer and
Hans Neuert]
- Page 100 -
710
* Dolores [author unknown]
710
Germania Theatre, [1894/1895] no. 7.
week beginning 8 November 1894
* Grünhörner (Greenhorns), by Hans Dobers (member of Germania Theater),
with music by Max Gabriel
* Die Gustel von Blasewitz, by Sigmund Schlesinger
* Unter vier Augen, by Ludwig Fulda
710
week beginning 22 November 1894
* Grünhörner (Greenhorns), by Hans Dobers (member of Germania Theater),
with music by Max Gabriel
* König Krause [presumably the play by Julius Keller and Louis Herrmann]
Folder
week beginning 28 February 1895
Also advertised:
* Die Räuber, by Friedrich Schiller
* Die Geheimnisse von Philadelphia [author unknown]
- Page 101 -
710
Harmonie Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Harmonie Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
Harmonie Programme, season 1893-1894.
699
3 December 1893
* Wie man Landluft geniesst, by C. A. Görner
699
Harmonie Program, season 1897-1898.
26 December 1897 - 1 January 1898
* Im Wartesalon erster Klasse, by Hugo Müller
* Ein modernes Verhängniss, by Feodor von Wehl
New Park Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Note
This newspaper is generally in English, with performance announcements and cast listings given in both
English and German.
Folder
Programme, New Park Theatre, season 1890-1891, vol. II, no. 4.
6-11 October 1890
* Der Fall Clemenceau, by Armand d'Artois and Alexandre Dumas (fils)
[translation of the French play L'affaire Clémenceau by d'Artrois, based on the
novel of the same title by Dumas; translator possibly: R. Schelcher]
- Page 102 -
700
Saenger-Halle (Newark, N.J.)
Saenger-Halle (Newark, N.J.).
Folder
Saenger-Halle, Belmont Avenue, newspaper.
701
17 November 1889
* Griseldis!, oder: Mannesstolz und Frauenliebe, by Friedrich Halm
* Die schöne Ungarin, by Wilhelm Mannstädt und A. Weller
Thalia Theater (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
Thalia Theater Programme, season 1885-86.
711
* Der Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle [= Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle],
by Rudolf Kneisel
Thalia Theater Programme, season 1885-86 (two copies).
711
* Die Pariser Bluthochzeit [= Königin Margot und die Hugenotten], by Friedrich
Adami based on the French novel La reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (père)
Thalia Theater Programme, season 1885-86 (two copies, in yellow and orange).
* Das Volk wie es weint und lacht, by O. F. Berg and Davild Kalisch, with music
from August Conradi
Also advertised:
* Die Pariser Bluthochzeit [= Königin Margot und die Hugenotten], by Friedrich
Adami based on the French novel La reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (père)
- Page 103 -
711
Turner-Halle (Philadelphia, Pa.)
* Frisch, gesund und meschugge [by Adolph L'Arronge]
Thalia Theater Programme, season 1885-86.
711
(a) - The first of two different issues bearing the date 27 March 1886.
* Lucretia Borgia, by Alexander Preuss based on the French play Lucrèce Borgia by
Victor Hugo
Also advertised:
Thalia Theater Programme, season 1885-86 (four copies of the first page only).
711
(b) - The second of two different issues bearing the date 27 March 1886.
* Pech-Schulze, by Hermann Salingré, with music by August Conradi.
Note: The printed edition of the play indicates that the accompanying music is by A.
Lang, not by Conradi.
Turner-Halle (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Folder
Die Bühne. Turner Halle Theatre-Programm.
22-27 May 1881
* Doctor Klaus, by Adolph L'Arronge; performance in Männerchor-Halle
* Die schöne Müllerin, by L. Schneider; performance in Turner-Halle
* Der Bombardier im Feuer, by Sauer; performance in Turner Halle
Also advertised:
* Der schwarze Peter, by C. A. Görner; performance in Dramatic Hall
* Eine Parthie 66, oder: Wem gehört die Frau, by W. Friedrich; performance in
Dramatic Hall, Thalia Theater-Club
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702
Author/Title Index to Playbills and Theater Newspapers
* Eine verfolgte Unschuld, by Emil Pohl and Lange, with music by August Conradi.
Note: Printed editions of the latter play give Pohl as the sole author.
Author/Title Index to Playbills and Theater Newspapers.
This index is arranged alphabetically by author name, then by title of work. Playbills that carry
announcements for performances of a given work are then listed chronologically, followed by theater
newspapers related to that work, also listed chronologically. Playbills and theater newspapers pertain to
Germania Theater, Philadelphia, unless otherwise specified. This index and the following two indices to
the playbills and theater newspapers comprise three interrelated parts:
1. Alphabetical index by author of play, then by title
2. Alphabetical index by title of play, for plays of unidentified authorship
3. Alphabetical listing of composers of music for plays, with cross-reference to the author name under
which the listing for the play can be found
In the case of works that are translations and/or adaptations, the author of the source work, if known, has
been included in this index, with a cross-reference to the main entry under the name of the translator or
adapter. If the name of the translator or adapter could not be determined, and only the name of the author
of the source work is known, then the author of the source work has been used for the main entry for the
German play, with a note about the original work from which the play was translated.
Please keep in mind that not all works represented in the collection are included in this manual index
but only the ones mentioned in the playbills and newspapers. For works that are represented solely by
theater rehearsal materials (Series I) or by librettos (Series II), the catalog records that have been created
for those files in Franklin, the library's catalog, are accessible both by author or composer name and by
title of the work to be performed.
Note
The symbol [R] following the title of a play indicates that the Learned Collection also contains theater
rehearsal materials for that play, in Series I.
Folder
Adami, Friedrich: Königin Margot und die Hugenotten[R].
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Sometimes performed under the title Die Pariser Bluthochzeit; based on the French
novel La reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (père).
* Königin Margot und die Hugenotten: playbill, Stadt-Theater, 14 January 1877.
686
* Königin Margot und die Hugenotten: playbill, 31 March - 1 April 1878.
677
* Königin Margot und die Hugenotten: playbill (oversized), 1 January [1884].
720
* Königin Margot und die Hugenotten: newspaper, 30 December 1883 - 6 January 1884,
695
season 1883-1884, 16th week.
* Königin Margot und die Hugenotten: newspaper, Thalia Theater, 6 March 1886.
711
* Königin Margot und die Hugenotten: newspaper, Thalia Theater, 20 March 1886.
711
Albini (pseudonym)--see under: Meddlhammer, Albin von.
--
Alvensleben, L. von (Ludwig): Die Dame mit den Camelien [R].
--
Based on the novel La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas (fils).
* Die Dame mit den Camelien: playbill (oversized), 3-7 November 1881.
720
* Die Dame mit den Camelien: playbill (oversized), 11-15 April 1890.
724
* Die Dame mit den Camelien: newspaper, 1881, no. 12, 29 January - 3 February.
693
* Die Dame mit den Camelien: newspaper, 1881, no. 13, 3-5 February.
693
* Die Dame mit den Camelien: newspaper, 1881, no. 18, 15-17 February.
693
* Die Dame mit den Camelien: newspaper, season 1881-1882, no. 20, 3-7 November
694
1881.
Anno, Anton: Die beiden Reichenmüller [R].
- Page 106 -
--
* Die beiden Reichenmüller: playbill, 5 October [1884], with music by G. Bätz.
681
* Die beiden Reichenmüller: newspaper, 8-13 January 1881, no. 4.
693
* Die beiden Reichenmüller: newspaper, 3 March 1883, season 1882-1883, no. 34.
695
* Die beiden Reichenmüller: newspaper, 5 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 13.
705
* Die beiden Reichenmüller: newspaper, 12 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 15.
705
* Die beiden Reichenmüller: newspaper, 21 February 1891.
698
* Die beiden Reichenmüller: newspaper, 24 October 1892, no. 9.
698
Anzengruber, Ludwig: Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld [R].
--
* Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld: newspaper, 25 February 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 30.
706
Arago, Etienne: Les mémoires du diable--see: Schneider, L. (Louis), Die Memoiren
--
des Teufels.
Arnould, M. (Auguste Jean François): L'homme au masque de fer--see: Schneider, L.
--
(Louis), Die eiserne Maske.
Arter, Emil (pseudonym for M. A. Reitler): Pikante Enthüllungen.
* Pikante Enthüllungen: playbill (oversized), 3-7 November 1881.
Artois, Armand d' : Der Fall Clemenceau.
-720
--
German translation (possibly: R. Schelcher) of D'Artois's play L'affaire Clemenceau,
based on the novel of the same title by Alexandre Dumas (fils).
* Der Fall Clemenceau: newspaper, New Park Theatre, season 1890-1891, vol. II, no. 4.
- Page 107 -
700
Auerbach, Berthold, Dorfgeschichten (stories)--see: Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte, Dorf
--
und Stadt.
Barbier, Jules: Cora, ou: L'esclavage--see: Wichmann, Paul Victor von Sebog und
--
Glenz, Cora, das Kind des Planzers.
Battu, Léon: Le mariage aux lanternes--see under: Carré, Michel.
--
Bauermeister, M.: Eine silberne Hochzeit, oder: Das Jubel-Paar.
--
* Eine silberne Hochzeit, oder: Das Jubel-Paar: newspaper, 11 October 1878, vol. 1,
703
no. 26.
Belot, Adolphe: Fromont jeune et Risler aîné--see under: Daudet, Alphonse.
--
Benedix, Roderich: Die alte Jungfer [R].
--
* Die alte Jungfer: playbill, 6-10 March [1886].
Benedix, Roderich: Die drei Junggesellen.
682
--
* Die drei Junggesellen: newspaper, 1881, no. 18, 15-17 February.
Benedix, Roderich: Die Fremden.
693
--
* Die Fremden: newspaper, 1880, no. 71, 27 November - 2 December.
Benedix, Roderich: Mathilde, ein Weib wie es sein soll.
* Mathilde, ein Weib wie es sein soll: newspaper, 14 March 1879, vol. 1, no. 48.
Benedix, Roderich: Die relegierten Studenten.
* Die relegierten Studenten: newspaper, 22 March 1890.
- Page 108 -
692
-690
-707
Benedix, Roderich: Der Störenfried.
--
* Der Störenfried: newspaper, 24 October 1892, no. 9.
Benedix, Roderich: Die zärtlichen Verwandten.
698
--
* Die zärtlichen Verwandten: newspaper, 8 March 1890.
697
* Die zärtlichen Verwandten: newspaper, 22 March 1890.
707
Berg, O. F. (pseudonym of Ottokar Franz Ebersberg): Die alte Schachtel--see:
--
Pohl, Emil, Die alte Schachtel.
Berg, O. F. (pseudonym of Ottokar Franz Ebersberg): Einer von unsere Leut'--see
--
under: Kalisch, David.
Berg, O. F. (pseudonym of Ottokar Franz Ebersberg): Lockere Zeisige!.
--
Co-authored by Eduard Jacobson.
* Lockere Zeisige!: newspaper, 28 June 1878, vol. 1, no. 11.
Berg, O. F. (pseudonym of Ottokar Franz Ebersberg): Das Volk wie es weint und
690
--
lockt [R].
Co-authored by David Kalisch, with music by August Conradi.
* Das Volk wie es weint und lockt: playbill, 30 November [1884].
681
* Das Volk wie es weint und lockt: playbill (oversized), 10-15 February [1888].
721
* Das Volk wie es weint und lockt: playbill, Thalia Theater, 17 March 1886.
687
* Das Volk wie es weint und lockt: newspaper, 1880, no. 68, 20-25 November.
692
- Page 109 -
* Das Volk wie es weint und lockt: newspaper, 29 November - 6 December 1884, vol. 3,
704
11th week.
* Das Volk wie es weint und lockt: newspaper, 25 February 1888, season 1887-1888, no.
706
30.
* Das Volk wie es weint und lockt: newspaper, Thalia Theater, 20 March 1886.
Berla, Alois: Durchgegangene Weiber.
711
--
* Durchgegangene Weiber: newspaper, 1880, no. 60, 2-4 November.
Bernstein, Max: Mein neuer Hut.
692
--
* Mein neuer Hut: newspaper, circa April-May 1892.
Biedermann: Ihrer Majestät Schiff Pinafore.
698
--
Translation of H. M. S. Pinafore by W.S. Gilbert, with music by Arthur Sullivan.
* Ihrer Majestät Schiff Pinafore: newspaper, 14 March 1879, vol. 1, no. 48.
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte: Dorf und Stadt.
690
--
Based on the Dorfgeschichten of Berthold Auerbach.
* Dorf und Stadt: newspaper, 15 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 31.
690
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte: Der Glöckner von Notre Dame [R].
--
Based on Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris.
* Der Glöckner von Notre Dame: playbill, 13-17 December [1879].
678
* Der Glöckner von Notre Dame: playbill, Thalia Theater, [circa 1886].
687
* Der Glöckner von Notre Dame: newspaper, 26 April 1878, vol. 1, no. 2.
690
- Page 110 -
* Der Glöckner von Notre Dame: newspaper, 18 January 1894, no. 15.
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte: Der Goldbauer.
710
--
* Der Goldbauer: newspaper, 28 November 1891.
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte: Die Grille.
708
--
Based George Sand's story "Le grillon".
* Die Grille: newspaper, 16 March 1889.
707
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte: Hinko.
--
Based on the novel Der Freiknecht by Ludwig Storch.
* Hinko: newspaper, 1881, no. 26, 4-10 March.
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte: Schloß Greiffenstein, oder: Der Sammtschuh.
* Schloß Greiffenstein, oder: Der Sammtschuh: newspaper 14 June 1878, vol. 1, no. 9.
Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte: Die Waise aus Lowood.
694
-703
--
Based on the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (published under the pseudonym
Currer Bell).
* Die Waise aus Lowood: newspaper, 1 February 1893, no. 28.
698
* Die Waise aus Lowood: newspaper, 3 April 1893, no. 37.
709
Bittner, Anton: Eine leichte Person.
--
* Eine leichte Person: newspaper, 7 November 1891 (b).
Bloch, Eduard: Ein sehr delikater Auftrag [R].
- Page 111 -
708
--
Based on the French play Chez une petite dame [author of the original French play
unknown].
* Ein sehr delikater Auftrag: playbill, 28 March 1886, Maennerchor Hall.
686
* Ein sehr delikater Auftrag: newspaper, 28 November 1891.
708
Blum, Carl: Die Regimentstochter.
--
* Die Regimentstochter: playbill (oversized), 10-15 February [1888].
721
* Die Regimentstochter: newspaper,10 March 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 32.
696
Blumenreich, [Paul?]: Die zweite Frau.
--
* Die zweite Frau: newspaper, 1881, no. 4, 8-13 January.
Blumenthal, Oscar: Die große Glocke.
693
--
* Die große Glocke: newspaper, 22 March 1890.
Blumenthal, Oscar: Der schwarze Schleier.
707
--
* Der schwarze Schleier: newspaper, 28 November 1891.
Blumenthal, Oscar: Ein Tropfen Gift [R].
708
--
* Ein Tropfen Gift: newspaper, 19 March 1887, season 1886-1887, no. 40.
705
* Ein Tropfen Gift: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
708
Blumenthal, Oscar: Trotzköpfchen.
--
* Trotzköpfchen: newspaper, 6 February 1892.
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709
Brachvogel, Albert Emil: Narciss.
--
* Narciss : newspaper, 1880, no. 76, 9-15 December.
692
* Narciss : newspaper, 6 February 1892.
709
Braun: Der Rattenfänger von Hameln.
--
* Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: newspaper, 21 February 1891.
Braun, Julius: Anna, zu Dir ist mein liebster Gang.
* Anna, zu Dir ist mein liebster Gang: newspaper, 25 February 1888, season 1887-1888,
698
-706
no. 30.
Brisebarre, Edouard: Un tigre du Bengale--see: Randolf, Otto, Der bengalische
--
Tiger.
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre (novel)--see: Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte, Die Waise aus
--
Lowood; and: Wilken, Heinrich, Die Waise von Lowood.
Büller, W.: Engelmann's Rache.
--
Co-authored by O. Voges.
* Engelmann's Rache: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
Carré, Michel: Die Verlobung bei der Laterne [R].
708
--
German translation of Le mariage aux lanternes (translator unknown).
* Die Verlobung bei der Laterne: newspaper, circa April-May 1892.
698
Cormon, Eugène: Une cause célèbre--see under: Ennery, Adolphe d'.
--
Cormon, Eugène: Les deux orphelines--see under: Ennery, Adolphe d'.
--
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Costa, Carl [pseudonym of Karl Kostia]: Blitzmädel.
--
* Blitzmädel: newspaper, 1881, no. 4, 8-13 January.
693
* Blitzmädel: newspaper, 1881, no. 12, 29 January - 3 February.
693
Crémieux, Hector Jonathan: Orphée aux enfers--see: Kalisch, Ludwig, Orpheus in
--
der Unterwelt.
Daly, Augustin: Under the Gaslight--see: Wolff, Unter dem Gaslicht.
--
Daudet, Alphonse: Sidonie, oder: Fromont Jr. und Riesler Sr.
--
German translation (translator unknown) of Fromont jeune et Risler aîné, an adaptation
of Daudet's novel of the same title, co-authored by Daudet and Adolphe Belot.
* Sidonie, oder: Fromont Jr. und Riesler Sr.: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
704
Dobers, Hans (member of Germania Theater, Philadelphia): Grünhörner.
--
* Grünhörner: newspaper, 8 November 1894, no. 7.
710
* Grünhörner: newspaper, 22 November 1894, no. 9.
710
Dumas, Alexandre (père): La reine Margot (novel)--see: Adami, Friedrich, Königin
--
Margot und die Hugenotten; see also: Friedrich, W., Mariette und Jeanetton, oder: Die
Heirath vor der Trommel (adaptation of an unidentified work by Dumas).
Dumas, Alexandre (fils): L'affaire Clémenceau (novel)--see under: Artois, Armand d'.
--
Dumas, Alexandre (fils): La dame aux camélias (novel)--see: Alvensleben, L. von
--
(Ludwig), Die Dame mit den Camelien.
Dumas, Alexandre (fils): Le supplice d'une femme--see: Neumann, Emil, Die Schuld
einer Frau.
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--
Ebersberg, Ottokar Franz--see under pseudonym: Berg, O. F.
--
Elmar, Carl: Ein jüdischer Dienstbote [R].
--
* Ein jüdischer Dienstbote: playbill, 27-28 April [1880].
679
* Ein jüdischer Dienstbote: newspaper, 29 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 33.
703
Elmar, Carl: Unter der Erde, oder: Arbeit bringt Segen.
--
* Unter der Erde, oder: Arbeit bringt Segen: playbill (oversized), 4-9 March [1889].
723
* Unter der Erde, oder: Arbeit bringt Segen: newspaper, 2 March 1889 (b).
707
Elsner, Oskar: Die Wacht am Rhein [R].
--
* Die Wacht am Rhein: playbill, 14 March 1878.
677
Elsner, Oskar: Wenn man im Dunkeln küßt--see under: Mallachow, Carl.
--
Engels, Georg: Ihre Familie--see under: Stinde, Julius.
--
Ennery, Adolph d': Ein berühmter Rechtsfall
--
German translation of d'Ennery's Une cause célèbre, co-authored by Eugène Cormon
(translator unknown).
* Ein berühmter Rechtsfall: newspaper, 12 March 1887, season 1886-1887, no. 39.
Ennery, Adolph d': Die beiden Waisen.
705
--
German translation of d'Ennery's Les deux orphelines, co-authored by Eugène Cormon,
based on a novel of the same title by d'Ennery (translator unknown).
* Die beiden Waisen: newspaper, 5 July 1878, vol. 1, no. 12.
- Page 115 -
690
Feuillet, Octave: Le mariage dans le monde--see: Laube, Heinrich, Eine vornehme
--
Ehe.
Feldmann, Leopold: Der Sohn auf Reisen.
--
* Der Sohn auf Reisen: newspaper, 1880, no. 68, 20-25 November.
Fournier, N. (Narcisse): L'homme au masque de fer--see: Schneider, L. (Louis), Die
692
--
eiserne Maske.
Friedrich, W.: Er muß auf's Land.
--
* Er muß auf's Land: newspaper, 10 October 1891.
Friedrich, W.: Mariette und Jeanetton, oder: Die Heirath vor der Trommel.
698
--
Based on an unidentified work by Alexandre Dumas (père).
* Mariette und Jeanetton, oder: Die Heirath vor der Trommel: playbill, 27 November
678
1879.
* Mariette und Jeanetton, oder: Die Heirath vor der Trommel: newspaper, 9 February
706
1889 (b).
Friedrich, W.: Eine Parthie 66, oder: Wem gehört die Frau.
* Eine Parthie 66, oder: Wem gehört die Frau: newspaper, Turner Halle, 22-27 May
-702
1881.
Fulda, Ludwig: Unter vier Augen.
--
* Unter vier Augen: newspaper, 8 November 1894, no. 7.
Fulda, Ludwig: Die wilde Jagd.
710
--
- Page 116 -
* Die wilde Jagd: newspaper, 8 March 1890.
697
Ganghofer, Ludwig: Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald.
--
Co-authored by Hans Neuert.
* Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald: newspaper, 11 January 1894, no. 14.
710
* Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald: newspaper, 18 January 1894, no. 15.
710
Gassmann, Theodor: Inspektor Bräsig.
--
Co-authored by J. Krüger; dramatic adaptation of the Low-German novel Ut mine
stomtid by Fritz Reuter.
* Inspektor Bräsig: newspaper, 28 November 1891.
Gassmann, Theodor: Die Rose von Bacharach.
* Die Rose von Bacharach: newspaper, 23 August 1878, vol. 1, no. 19.
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck): H. M. S. Pinafore--see: Biedermann, Ihrer
708
-690
--
Majestät Schiff Pinafore, oder: Die Seemanns Braut.
Girardin, Emil de: Le supplice d'une femme--see: Neumann, Emil, Die Schuld einer
--
Frau.
Girndt, Otto: Nervös--see under: Moser, Gustav von.
--
Girndt, Otto: Die Sternschnuppe--see under: Moser, Gustav von.
--
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust.
--
* Faust: newspaper, 24 May 1878, vol. 1, no. 6.
703
* Faust: newspaper, 1880, no. 50, 9-11 October.
692
- Page 117 -
Görlitz, Karl: Drei paar Schuhe.
--
* Drei paar Schuhe : newspaper, 27 February 1892.
Görner, C. A. (Carl August): Aschenbrödel, oder: Der gläserne Pantoffel [R].
709
--
* Aschenbrödel, oder: Der gläserne Pantoffel : playbill, 27 November 1879.
678
* Aschenbrödel, oder: Der gläserne Pantoffel : newspaper, 25 October 1878, vol. 1, no.
690
28.
* Aschenbrödel, oder: Der gläserne Pantoffel : newspaper, 1880, no. 71, 27 November -
692
2 December.
Görner, C. A. (Carl August): Englisch.
--
* Englisch: newspaper, 1880, no. 1, 16-22 March.
Görner, C. A. (Carl August): Ein geadelter Kaufmann.
691
--
* Ein geadelter Kaufmann: newspaper, 1881, no. 31, 17-24 March.
694
* Ein geadelter Kaufmann: newspaper, 22 March 1890.
707
Görner, C. A. (Carl August): Der Rattenfänger von Hameln
--
Based on the history of the town of Hameln by Friedrich Sprenger and a chronical by
Ehrick, with music by Ernst Catenhusen.
* Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: playbill, 5-6 April [1885].
Görner, C. A. (Carl August): Der schwarze Peter.
* Der schwarze Peter: newspaper, Turner Halle, 22-27 May 1881.
- Page 118 -
682
-702
Görner, C. A. (Carl August): Wie man Landluft geniesst [R].
* Wie man Landluft geniesst: playbill, "To-Night at the Bijou (Petersen's Hotel),"
-675
undated.
* Wie man Landluft geniesst: newspaper, Harmonie Hall, season 1893-1894.
Guinot, Eugène: Les mémoires du diable--see: Schneider, L. (Louis), Die Memoiren
699
--
des Teufels.
Gutzkow, Karl: Uriel Acosta.
--
* Uriel Acosta : newspaper, 21 February 1879, vol. 1, no. 45.
703
* Uriel Acosta : newspaper, 14 March 1879, vol. 1, no. 48.
690
Haffner, C. (Carl): Die Sternenjungfrau [R].
* Die Sternenjungfrau: playbill (oversized), Deutsches Theater in der Turner Halle, 16
-722
September 1875.
* Die Sternenjungfrau: playbill, Turner-Halle, 13 February 1879.
688
* Die Sternenjungfrau: newspaper, 15-19 May 1880.
691
Haffner, C. (Carl): Therese Krones [R]
--
With music by Adolf Müller.
* Therese Krones: playbill, Turner Halle Theater, 14 December 1876.
688
* Therese Krones: newspaper, 4 October 1890.
697
Hahn, Rudolf: Gute Nacht [R].
--
- Page 119 -
* Gute Nacht: playbill, Aurora Dramatic Circle, Café Logeling, 4 May 1889.
675
Halévy, Ludovic: Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein--see: Hopp, Julius, Die
--
Großherzogin von Geroldstein.
Halm, Friedrich: Griseldis.
--
* Griseldis: newspaper, 24 April 1886.
704
* Griseldis: newspaper, Saenger-Halle, 17 November 1889.
701
Halm, Friedrich: Der Sohn der Wildnis [R].
* Der Sohn der Wildnis: playbill, 24-28 May 1879.
Held, Ludwig: Die Näherin.
-678
--
* Die Näherin: playbill, 8-10 April [1882].
680
Henrion, Poly: Die schöne Galathée.
--
Operetta composed by Franz von Suppé.
* Die schöne Galathée: playbill, 14 March 1878.
677
* Die schöne Galathée: newspaper, 16 April 1892.
698
* Die schöne Galathée: newspaper, circa April-May 1892.
698
Herrmann, Louis: König Krause--see under: Keller, Julius.
--
Herrmann, Louis: Unser Doktor--see under: Treptow, Leon.
--
Hersch, Hermann: Die Anna-Lise [R].
--
* Die Anna-Lise: newspaper, 23 August 1878, vol. 1, no. 19.
- Page 120 -
690
* Die Anna-Lise: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
704
* Die Anna-Lise: newspaper, 18 December 1886, no. 29.
704
* Die Anna-Lise: newspaper, 1 February 1893, no. 28.
698
Hesse, August Wilhelm: Das Lorle, oder: Ein Berliner im Schwarzwald [R].
--
* Das Lorle, oder: Ein Berliner im Schwarzwald: newspaper, 1881, no. 40, 7-11 April.
694
* Das Lorle, oder: Ein Berliner im Schwarzwald: newspaper, 12 March 1892 [whether
709
the advertised title 's Lorle refers to Hesse's play is uncertain].
Hillern, Wilhelmine von: Geierwally
--
Dramatic adaptation of Hillern's novel Die Geier-Wally (adapter unknown).
* Geierwally: playbill, 5 October [1884].
681
Holtei, Karl von: Lorbeerbaum und Bettelstab.
* Lorbeerbaum und Bettelstab: newspaper, 18 January 1894, no. 15.
Holtei, Karl von: Wiener in Berlin.
-710
--
* Wiener in Berlin: newspaper, 1880, no. 1, 16-22 March.
Hopf, Albert: Eine Nacht in Berlin [R].
691
--
With music by Adolf Lang.
* Eine Nacht in Berlin: playbill, 30 January [1884].
681
* Eine Nacht in Berlin: newspaper, 4 October 1878, vol. 1, no. 25.
703
* Eine Nacht in Berlin: newspaper, 25 October 1878, vol. 1, no. 28.
690
- Page 121 -
* Eine Nacht in Berlin: newspaper, 1880, no. 19, 19-24 June.
691
* Eine Nacht in Berlin: newspaper, 27 January - 2 February 1884, season 1883-1884,
695
20th week.
* Eine Nacht in Berlin: newspaper, 5 January 1889.
706
* Eine Nacht in Berlin: newspaper, 3 April 1893, no. 37.
709
Hopp, Julius: Die Großherzogin von Geroldstein.
--
Operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach; Hopp's libretto based on the original French
libretto Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
* Die Großherzogin von Geroldstein: playbill (oversized), Concordia Operetten-Theater,
722
14-17 January [1882].
Hugo, Victor: Lucrèce Borgia--see: Preuss, Alexander, Lucretia Borgia.
--
Hugo, Victor: Notre-Dame de Paris (novel)--see: Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte, Der
--
Glöckner von Notre Dame.
Ibsen, Henrik: Nora, Nora.
--
German translation (translator unknown) of Et Dukkehjem (English: A Doll’s House).
* Nora, Nora: newspaper, 12 March 1892.
709
Jacobson, Eduard: Die Afrikanerin.[R]
--
With music by Thuiskon Hauptner.
* Die Afrikanerin: playbill, 21 February 1878.
677
* Die Afrikanerin: playbill, 5-6 April [1885].
682
* Die Afrikanerin: newspaper, 4-12 April 1885 (a), vol. 3, 29th week.
704
- Page 122 -
Jacobson, Eduard: Der Budiker und sein Kind [R]--see under: Salingré, Hermann.
--
Jacobson, Eduard: Goldene Berge--see under: Wilken, Heinrich.
--
Jacobson, Eduard: Die Lachtaube.
--
* Die Lachtaube: newspaper, 8 March 1890.
697
* Die Lachtaube: newspaper, 22 March 1890.
707
Jacobson, Eduard: Lockere Zeisige!--see under: Berg, O. F.
--
Jacobson, Eduard: Das Mädel ohne Geld.
--
* Das Mädel ohne Geld: playbill (oversized), 10-15 February [1888].
Jacobson, Eduard: Singvögelchen [R].
721
--
* Singvögelchen: playbill, 24-28 May 1879.
678
* Singvögelchen: newspaper, 1 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 29.
690
Jacobson, Eduard: Die Tochter der Harfenistin--see under: Kneisel, Rudolf.
--
Jerrmann, Eduard: Katharina Howard [R].
--
* Katharina Howard: playbill (oversized), Thalia Theater, 22-24 March 1886.
722
Justinus, Oscar: Apfelröschen--see under: Wilken, Heinrich.
--
Justinus, Oscar: Kyritz-Pyritz--see under: Wilken, Heinrich.
--
Kaiser, Friedrich: Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich [R].
--
- Page 123 -
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich: playbill, 20-23 September
678
1879.
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich: playbill, 8-10 April
680
[1882].
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich: newspaper, 24 May 1878,
703
vol. 1, no. 6.
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich: newspaper, 1880, no. 13,
691
29-31 May.
694
3-7 March.
694
4-10 March.
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich: newspaper, 10 March
696
1888, season 1887-1888, no. 32.
* Stadt und Land, oder: Der Viehhändler aus Oberösterreich: newspaper, 18 January
710
1894, no. 15.
Kalisch, David: Einer von unsere Leut'.
--
Co-authored by O. F. Berg.
* Einer von unsere Leut': newspaper, 7 November 1891 (a).
Kalisch, David: Krethi und Plethi.
708
--
* Krethi und Plethi: playbill, 8-10 April [1882].
Kalisch, David: Das Volk wie es weint und lacht [R]--see under: Berg, O. F.
- Page 124 -
680
--
Kalisch, Ludwig: Orpheus in der Unterwelt [R].
--
Operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach; Kalisch's libretto ased on the original French
libretto Orphée aux enfers.
* Orpheus in der Unterwelt: newspaper, 24 October 1892, no. 9.
Karl, Engelbert: Das Mädel ohne Geld.
698
--
* Das Mädel ohne Geld: playbill (oversized), 10-15 February [1888].
Keller, Julius: König Krause.
721
--
Co-authored by Louis Herrmann.
* König Krause: newspaper, 22 November 1894, no. 9.
Kneisel, Rudolf: Die Anti-Xantippe, oder Krieg den Frauen.
* Die Anti-Xantippe, oder Krieg den Frauen: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
Kneisel, Rudolf: Blinde Kuh.
710
-704
--
* Blinde Kuh: newspaper, 1880, no. 19, 19-24 June.
Kneisel, Rudolf: Das böse Fräulein.
691
--
* Das böse Fräulein: newspaper, 15-19 May 1880.
Kneisel, Rudolf: Die große Unbekannte.
691
--
* Die große Unbekannte: newspaper, 24 September 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 2.
Kneisel, Rudolf: Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle [R].
Often performed under the title Der Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle.
- Page 125 -
705
--
* Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle: newspaper, 1881, no. 31, 17-24 March.
694
* Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle: newspaper, 1881, no. 34, 24-28 March.
694
* Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle: newspaper, 9 February 1889 (a).
706
* Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle: newspaper, 9 February 1889 (b).
706
* Der Herr Stadtmusikus und seine Kapelle: newspaper, Thalia Theater, 12 December
711
1885.
Kneisel, Rudolf: Papageno.
--
* Papageno: newspaper, 16 April 1892.
698
Kneisel, Rudolf: Schmerle's Geheimniss.
--
* Schmerle's Geheimniss: newspaper, 5 January 1889.
706
* Schmerle's Geheimniss: newspaper, 2 March 1889 (a).
707
* Schmerle's Geheimniss: newspaper, 2 March 1889 (b).
707
Kneisel, Rudolf: Die Tochter Belial's [R].
--
Often performed under the title Die Tochter der Hölle.
* Die Tochter Belial's: playbill, 8 April 1891.
685
* Die Tochter Belial's: playbill (oversized), 8-15 April [1891].
724
* Die Tochter Belial's: newspaper, 1880, no. 27, 25 July.
691
* Die Tochter Belial's: newspaper, 5-7 May 1882, season 1881-1882, no. 79.
703
* Die Tochter Belial's: newspaper, 24 April 1886.
704
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708
698
Kneisel, Rudolf: Die Tochter der Harfenistin.
--
* Die Tochter der Harfenistin: newspaper, 26 April 1878, vol. 1, no. 2.
690
Krüger, Johann: Inspektor Bräsig--see under: Gassmann, Theodor.
--
Krüger, Johann: Das Mädchen vom Dorfe.
--
* Das Mädchen vom Dorfe: newspaper, 1881, no. 40, 7-11 April.
694
* Das Mädchen vom Dorfe: newspaper, 28 November 1891.
708
Krüger, [Johann?]: Des Schulmeisters Töchterlein.
* Des Schulmeisters Töchterlein: playbill, 5 October [1884].
Langer, Anton: Strauß und Lanner.
-681
--
* Strauß und Lanner: newspaper, 26 April 1878, vol. 1, no. 2.
L'Arronge, Adolph: Doctor Klaus [R].
690
--
* Doctor Klaus: playbill (oversized), 19-21 September [1887].
721
* Doctor Klaus: newspaper, 14 March 1879, vol. 1, no. 48.
690
* Doctor Klaus: newspaper, 24 September 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 2.
705
* Doctor Klaus: newspaper, Turner Halle, 22-27 May 1881.
702
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L'Arronge, Adolph: Frisch, gesund und meschugge.
* Frisch, gesund und meschugge: newspaper, Thalia Theater, 20 March 1886.
L'Arronge, Adolph: Hasemann's Töchter.
-711
--
* Hasemann's Töchter: newspaper, 29 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 33.
L'Arronge, Adolph: Mein Leopold [R].
703
--
With music by Rudolf Bial.
* Mein Leopold: newspaper, 15 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 31.
690
* Mein Leopold: newspaper, 21 January 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 25.
706
L'Arronge, Adolph: Der Registrator auf Reisen.
* Der Registrator auf Reisen: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
-704
L'Arronge, Adolph: Die Spitzenkönigin--see under: Müller, Hugo.
--
L'Arronge, Adolph: Wohlthätige Frauen.
--
* Wohlthätige Frauen: playbill, 13-15 March 1880.
679
* Wohlthätige Frauen: playbill, 27-28 April [1880].
679
* Wohlthätige Frauen: newspaper, 12 March 1892.
709
Laube, Heinrich: Böse Zungen.
--
* Böse Zungen: newspaper, 21 February 1891.
Laube, Heinrich: Eine Ehe von heute.
698
--
German translation of an unidentified French play by Victorien Sardou.
- Page 128 -
* Eine Ehe von heute: playbill (oversized), 4-9 March [1889].
Laube, Heinrich: Die Karlsschüler.
723
--
* Die Karlsschüler: playbill, 24-28 May 1879.
678
* Die Karlsschüler: newspaper, 3 April 1893, no. 37.
709
Laube, Heinrich: Eine vornehme Ehe.
--
Based on a play (perhaps Le Mariage dans le monde) by Octave Feuillet.
* Eine vornehme Ehe: newspaper, 1881, no. 34, 24-28 March.
Laufs, Carl: Pension Schöller.
694
--
* Pension Schöller: newspaper, 27 February 1892.
Lautz, W.: Pauvrette.
709
--
* Pauvrette: newspaper, 24 May 1878, vol. 1, no. 6.
703
Legouvé, Ernest: Bataille de dames--see: Olfers, Frauenkampf.
--
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim: Emilia Galotti.
--
* Emilia Galotti: newspaper, 5-7 May 1882, season 1881-1882, no. 79.
Lindau, Paul: Gräfin Lea.
703
--
* Gräfin Lea: newspaper, circa 17 October 1891.
Lindau, Paul: Maria und Magdalena [R].
698
--
* Maria und Magdalena: playbill, 19 June 1879.
- Page 129 -
678
* Maria und Magdalena: playbill, 18 February 1887.
683
* Maria und Magdalena: newspaper, 19 February 1887, season 1886-1887, no. 37.
705
* Maria und Magdalena: newspaper, 12 March 1892.
709
Lindau, Paul: Der Schatten.
--
* Der Schatten: newspaper, 21 February 1891.
Löbel, Paul: Sarah Bernhardt.
698
--
* Sarah Bernhardt: newspaper, 1881, no. 18, 15-17 February.
Lortzing, Albert (librettist as well as composer): Der Waffenschmied.
* Der Waffenschmied: playbill (oversized), Concordia Operetten-Theater, 14-17 January
693
-722
[1882].
Mallachow, Carl: Wenn man im Dunkeln küßt [R]. Co-authored by Oskar Elsner.
--
* Wenn man im Dunkeln küßt: playbill, 11 March 1880.
679
* Wenn man im Dunkeln küßt: newspaper, 10 October 1891.
698
* Wenn man im Dunkeln küßt: newspaper, circa 17 October 1891.
698
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Goldener Boden.
--
* Goldener Boden: newspaper,10 March 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 32.
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Handwerk hat goldenen Boden.
* Handwerk hat goldenen Boden: newspaper, 18 December 1886, no. 29.
- Page 130 -
696
-704
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Höhere Töchter.
--
* Höhere Töchter: newspaper, 5 January 1889.
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Leuchtkugeln.
706
--
* Leuchtkugeln: newspaper, 22 March 1890.
707
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Luftschlösser.
--
Co-authored by A. Weller.
* Luftschlösser: newspaper, 11 January 1894, no. 14.
710
* Luftschlösser: newspaper, 18 January 1894, no. 15.
710
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Mein Herzensfritz.
--
Co-authored by Heinrich Wilken.
* Mein Herzensfritz: playbill, 5 October [1884].
681
* Mein Herzensfritz: newspaper, 21 September 1892, no. 1.
709
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Das Milchmädchen aus Schöneberg.
* Das Milchmädchen aus Schöneberg: newspaper, 5 July 1878, vol. 1, no. 12.
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Die schöne Ungarin.
-690
--
Co-authored by A. Weller; with music by Gustav Steffens.
* Die schöne Ungarin: newspaper, 19 February 1887, season 1886-1887, no. 37.
705
* Die schöne Ungarin: newspaper, Saenger-Halle, 17 November 1889.
701
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Spottvögel.
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With music by Gustav Steffens.
* Spottvögel: newspaper, 21 January 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 25.
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Der Stabstrompeter .
706
--
* Der Stabstrompeter : newspaper, 18 December 1886, no. 29.
704
* Der Stabstrompeter : newspaper, 24 September 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 2.
705
* Der Stabstrompeter : newspaper, 12 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 15.
705
* Der Stabstrompeter : newspaper, 19 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 16.
705
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Der tolle Wenzel.
--
* Der tolle Wenzel : newspaper, 21 January 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 25.
706
* Der tolle Wenzel : newspaper, 25 February 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 30.
706
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Unser Otto.
--
* Unser Otto: newspaper, 12 April 1890.
707
Mannstädt, Wilhelm: Der Wald-Teufel.
--
Der Wald-Teufel: newspaper, 3 December 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 18.
696
Der Wald-Teufel: newspaper, 24 October 1892, no. 9.
698
Marc-Michel, M.: Un tigre du Bengale--see: Randolf, Otto, Der bengalische Tiger.
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Masson, Michel--see: Meissner, Julius, Die Bettlerin (German-language adaptation of
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an unidentified French work by Masson).
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Meddlhammer, Albin (published under the pseudonym: Albini): Herr Mengler, oder:
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Endlich hat er es doch gut gemacht .
* Herr Mengler, oder: Endlich hat er es doch gut gemacht : playbill, Turner Halle
688
Theater, 5-6 December [1876].
Megerle, Therese von: Onkel Tom [R].
--
Performed under the title Onkel Tom's Hütte; based on the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
* Onkel Tom's Hütte: playbill, 2 January 1879.
678
* Onkel Tom's Hütte: playbill/poster (oversized), circa December 1880.
725
* Onkel Tom's Hütte: newspaper, 1880, no. 76, 9-15 December.
692
Meilhac, Henri: Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein--see: Hopp, Julius, Die
--
Großherzogin von Geroldstein.
Meilhac, Henri: La vie parisienne--see: Treumann, Karl, Pariser Leben.
--
Meissner, Julius: Die Bettlerin [R].
--
Performed under the title Die Bettlerin von Marienberg.
* Die Bettlerin von Marienberg: playbill, 4 April 1878.
677
* Die Bettlerin von Marienberg: playbill, 5 February 1879.
679
* Die Bettlerin von Marienberg: playbill (oversized), 3 March [1881].
720
* Die Bettlerin von Marienberg: playbill, 27 January 1884.
681
* Die Bettlerin von Marienberg: newspaper, 1881, no. 25, 3-7 March.
694
Mels, A. (August): Junge Leiden [R].
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- Page 133 -
Also known as Heine’s Junge Leiden).
* Junge Leiden: newspaper, 1881, no. 18, 15-17 February.
693
* Junge Leiden: newspaper, 25 April 1891.
708
Mosenthal, S. H. (Salomon Hermann): Deborah.
--
* Deborah: newspaper, 25 October 1878, vol. 1, no. 28.
690
* Deborah: newspaper, 19 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 16.
705
* Deborah: newspaper, 3 April 1893, no. 37.
709
Moser, Gustav von: Der Bibliothekar [R].
--
* Der Bibliothekar: playbill, 6 December 1883.
680
* Der Bibliothekar: newspaper, 24 April 1886.
704
* Der Bibliothekar: newspaper, 21 September 1892, no. 1.
709
Moser, Gustav von: Harun al Raschid.
--
Performed under the title Harun al Raschid und seine Schwiegermutter.
* Harun al Raschid: newspaper, 1880, no. 1, 16-22 March.
691
* Harun al Raschid: newspaper, 24 April 1886.
704
Moser, Gustav von: Der Hypochonder, oder: Unsere Stadtväter.
* Der Hypochonder, oder: Unsere Stadtväter: newspaper, 21 February 1879, vol. 1, no.
-703
45.
Moser, Gustav von: Krieg im Frieden.
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- Page 134 -
Co-authored by Franz von Schönthan.
* Krieg im Frieden: playbill (oversized), 8-15 April [1891].
724
* Krieg im Frieden: newspaper, 11 April 1891.
708
Moser, Gustav von: Die Leibrente.
--
* Die Leibrente: newspaper, 11 April 1891.
708
Moser, Gustav von: Nervös.
--
Co-authored by Otto Girndt.
* Nervös: playbill (oversized), 10-11 November 1890.
Moser, Gustav von: Reif-Reifling [R].
724
--
* Reif-Reifling: newspaper, 3 December 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 18.
Moser, Gustav von: Der Salon-Tyroler.
696
--
* Der Salon-Tyroler: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
704
* Der Salon-Tyroler: newspaper, 20 October 1888.
706
* Der Salon-Tyroler: newspaper, 27 February 1892.
709
Moser, Gustav von: Die Sternschnuppe.
--
Co-authored by Otto Girndt.
* Die Sternschnuppe: newspaper, 24 September 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 2.
Moser, Gustav von: Das Stiftungsfest [R].
705
--
* Das Stiftungsfest: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
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704
Moser, Gustav von: Unsere Frauen [R].
--
Co-authored by Franz von Schönthan.
* Unsere Frauen: playbill, 10 May 1883.
680
* Unsere Frauen: playbill (oversized), 10 May 1883.
720
* Unsere Frauen: newspaper, 12 May 1883, season 1882-1883, no. 44.
695
* Unsere Frauen: newspaper, 20 October 1888.
706
* Unsere Frauen: newspaper, 7 November 1891 (a).
708
Moser, Gustav von: Der Veilchenfresser.
--
* Der Veilchenfresser: newspaper, 9 February 1889 (a).
706
* Der Veilchenfresser: newspaper, 9 February 1889 (b).
706
Müller, Arthur: Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott.
--
* Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott: playbill, Turner Halle Theater, 5-6 December [1876].
688
* Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott: playbill, 9-11 November 1883.
680
* Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott: newspaper, 4-11 November 1883, season 1883-1884,
695
8th week.
* Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott: newspaper, 25 November - 1 December 1883, season
695
1883-1884, 11th week.
Müller, Arthur: Die Hexe von Leonberg [R].
* Die Hexe von Leonberg: playbill, Sommer-Theater in der Turner-Halle, 29 July 1875.
- Page 136 -
-688
* Die Hexe von Leonberg: playbill, 4-6 September 1879.
678
* Die Hexe von Leonberg: newspaper, 30 August 1878, vol. 1, no. 20.
703
Müller, Arthur: Die Verschwörung der Frauen [R].
--
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen: playbill, 5 September 1878.
677
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen: playbill, 18 March 1880.
679
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen: playbill, 5 March 1890.
685
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen: newspaper, 30 August 1878, vol. 1, no. 20.
703
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen: newspaper, 1880, no. 1, 16-22 March.
691
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen: newspaper, 8 March 1890.
697
* Die Verschwörung der Frauen: newspaper, 27 February 1892.
709
Müller, Hugo: Gewonnene Herzen [R].
--
* Gewonnene Herzen: newspaper, 11 October 1878, vol. 1, no. 26.
703
* Gewonnene Herzen: newspaper, 9 February 1889 (b).
706
* Gewonnene Herzen: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (a).
707
* Gewonnene Herzen: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (b).
707
* Gewonnene Herzen: newspaper, 3 April 1893, no. 37.
709
Müller, Hugo: Heidemann und Sohn.
--
* Heidemann und Sohn: newspaper, 21 February 1879, vol. 1, no. 45.
- Page 137 -
703
Müller, Hugo: Im Wartesalon erster Klasse [R].
* Im Wartesalon erster Klasse: newspaper, Harmonie Hall, season 1897-1898.
Müller, Hugo: Die Spitzenkönigin.
-699
--
Co-authored by Adolph L'Arronge.
* Die Spitzenkönigin: playbill (oversized), 11-15 April 1890.
724
* Die Spitzenkönigin: newspaper, 1880, no. 76, 9-15 December.
692
* Die Spitzenkönigin: newspaper, 12 April 1890.
707
Nestroy, Johann: Der böse Geist Lumpazivavagabundus.
--
* Der böse Geist Lumpazivavagabundus: playbill, 23 December [1883].
680
* Der böse Geist Lumpazivavagabundus: newspaper, 1880, no. 68, 20-25 November.
692
Nestroy, Johann: Einen Jux will er sich machen [R].
* Einen Jux will er sich machen: newspaper, 8 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 30.
-703
Neuert, Hans: Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald--see under: Ganghofer, Ludwig.
--
Neumann, Emil: Die Schuld einer Frau.
--
Based on Le supplice d'une femme, by Alexandre Dumas (fils) in collaboration with
Emile de Girardin.
* Die Schuld einer Frau: newspaper, 1881, no. 40, 7-11 April.
694
* Die Schuld einer Frau: newspaper, 12 March 1892.
709
Nötel, Louis: Der deutsche Michel.
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- Page 138 -
* Der deutsche Michel: newspaper, 24 September 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 2.
Ohnet, Georges: Der Hüttenbesitzer.
705
--
German translation (translator unknown) of Ohnet's Le maître de forges.
* Der Hüttenbesitzer: newspaper, 6 February 1892.
709
* Der Hüttenbesitzer: newspaper, 11 January 1894, no. 14.
710
* Der Hüttenbesitzer: newspaper, 18 January 1894, no. 15.
710
Olfers: Frauenkampf [R].
--
Based on Bataille de dames by Eugène Scribe and Ernest LeGouvé.
* Frauenkampf: newspaper, 11 October 1878, vol. 1, no. 26.
703
Paul, C. A.: Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit [R].
--
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit: playbill, 28 August - 1 September 1879.
678
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit: playbill, 15 August 1880.
679
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit: playbill, 28 April 1887 (a).
683
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit: playbill, 28 April 1887 (b).
683
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit: playbill (oversized), 28 April 1887.
721
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit: newspaper, 4 October 1878, vol. 1, no. 25.
703
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit: newspaper, 1880, no. 30, 15 August.
691
* Der Bucklige, oder: Die Macht der Arbeit: newspaper, 30 April 1887, season
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1886-1887, no. 43.
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Philippi, Felix: Daniela.
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* Daniela: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
708
Pohl, Emil: Die alte Schachtel [R].
--
Based on a play of the same title by O. F. Berg; with music by Rudolf Bial.
* Die alte Schachtel: playbill, 13-17 December [1879].
678
* Die alte Schachtel: newspaper, 5 July 1878, vol. 1, no. 12.
690
Pohl, Emil: Bruder Liederlich [R].
--
With music by August Conradi.
* Bruder Liederlich: playbill, 24-28 May 1879.
678
* Bruder Liederlich: newspaper, 9-15 December 1883, season 1883-1884, 13th week.
695
Pohl, Emil: Der Jongleur.
--
* Der Jongleur: playbill (oversized), 3-7 November 1881.
720
* Der Jongleur: newspaper, season 1881-1882, no. 20, 3-7 November 1881.
694
Pohl, Emil: Liebhabereien.
--
* Liebhabereien: playbill, 5 October [1884].
681
Pohl, Emil: Die Maurer von Berlin [R].
--
With music by Rudolf Bial.
* Die Maurer von Berlin: newspaper, 10 October 1891.
698
* Die Maurer von Berlin: newspaper, circa 17 October 1891.
698
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* Die Maurer von Berlin: newspaper, 7 November 1891 (b).
Pohl, Emil: O diese Weiber.
708
--
* O diese Weiber: newspaper, 11 October 1878, vol. 1, no. 26.
Pohl, Emil: Theater-Schülerin, oder: Verfehlter Beruf--see under: Verfehlter Beruf,
703
--
below.
Pohl, Emil: Verfehlter Beruf.
--
With music by Heinrich Wilhelm.
* Verfehlter Beruf: newspaper, 30 August 1878, vol. 1, no. 20.
703
* Verfehlter Beruf: newspaper, 1881, no. 18, 15-17 February.
693
* Verfehlter Beruf: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
708
Pohl, Emil: Eine verfolgte Unschuld [R].
--
With music by August Conradi.
* Eine verfolgte Unschuld: newspaper, Turner Halle, 22-27 May 1881.
Preuss, Alexander: Lucretia Borgia [R].
702
--
Based on Victor Hugo's play Lucrèce Borgia.
* Lucretia Borgia: playbill (oversized), Thalia Theater, 28 March 1886.
722
* Lucretia Borgia: playbill, Thalia Theater, week of 1 April [1886].
687
* Lucretia Borgia: newspaper, Thalia Theater, 27 March 1886 (a).
711
Prüller, Franz: Die schöne Klosterbäuerin, oder: Der Meuchelmord auf dem
Friedhofe.
- Page 141 -
--
* Die schöne Klosterbäuerin, oder: Der Meuchelmord auf dem Friedhofe: playbill, 23
680
December [1883].
Putlitz, Gustav Heinrich Gans, Edler Herr von und zu: Das Schwert des Damokles.
* Das Schwert des Damokles: playbill, "Theatralische Abend-Unterhaltung" [theater
-689
unidentified], 23 October 1896.
* Das Schwert des Damokles: newspaper, 28 November 1891.
Räder, Gustav: Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden [R].
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: playbill, Deutsches Stadt-
708
-676
Theater, Concordia Halle 22 March 1874.
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: playbill (oversized), Deutsches
722
Theater in der Turner Halle, 8 June 1876.
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: newspaper 14 June 1878, vol. 1,
703
no. 9.
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: newspaper, 1881, no. 12, 29
693
January - 3 February.
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: newspaper, 12 March 1887,
705
season 1886-1887, no. 39.
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: newspaper, 2 March 1889 (a).
707
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: newspaper, 2 March 1889 (b).
707
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (a).
707
* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (b).
707
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* Robert und Bertram, oder: Die lustigen Vagabonden: newspaper, 11 January 1894, no.
710
14.
Räder, Gustav: Der Weltumsegler wider Willen.
* Der Weltumsegler wider Willen: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
Raimund, Ferdinand: Der Verschwender.
-708
--
* Der Verschwender: playbill, 9-11 November 1883.
680
* Der Verschwender: newspaper, 28 June 1878, vol. 1, no. 11.
690
* Der Verschwender: newspaper, 1881, no. 34, 24-28 March.
694
Rainer, Fr.: Der Stumme von Manchester.
--
* Der Stumme von Manchester: newspaper, 21 February 1879, vol. 1, no. 45.
Randolf, Otto: Der bengalische Tiger.
703
--
Based on the French play Un tigre du Bengale by Édouard Brisebarre and M. MarcMichel.
* Der bengalische Tiger: newspaper, 28 November 1891.
Raupach, Ernst Benjamin Salomon: Die Schleichhändler .
708
--
* Die Schleichhändler : newspaper, 19 April 1878, vol. 1, no. 1.
690
Raupach, Ernst Benjamin Salomon: Die Schüle des Lebens.
--
* Die Schüle des Lebens: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
Redwitz, Oskar von: Philippine Welser .
708
--
- Page 143 -
* Philippine Welser : playbill, 27 November 1879.
678
* Philippine Welser : newspaper, 22 March 1890.
707
* Philippine Welser : newspaper, 3 April 1893, no. 37.
709
Reich, Adolph: Christ und Jude.
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* Christ und Jude : newspaper, 1881, no. 4, 8-13 January.
Reich, Adolph: Nemesis, oder: Eine Civil-Ehe.
* Nemesis, oder: Eine Civil-Ehe: newspaper, 25 April 1891.
Reich, Adolph: Rothschild [R].
693
-708
--
* Rothschild: playbill (oversized), Stadt-Theater, Kump's Halle, Kansas City, 4 March
722
1883.
Reitler, M. A.--see under: Arter, Emil.
--
Reuter, Fritz: Die drei Langhänse.
--
* Die drei Langhänse: playbill (oversized), 28-29 January [1879].
720
Reuter, Fritz: Ut mine stomtid (novel)--see: Gassmann, Theodor, Inspektor Bräsig.
--
Roberts, Alexander, Baron von: Satisfaktion.
--
* Satisfaktion: newspaper, 24 October 1892, no. 9.
Rosen, Julius: Citronen [R].
698
--
* Citronen: playbill, 24-28 May 1879.
678
- Page 144 -
* Citronen: playbill (oversized), Deutsches Theater, Maennerchor Hall, 26-28 April
722
[circa 1878].
* Citronen: newspaper, 19 April 1878, vol. 1, no. 1.
690
* Citronen: newspaper, 28 June 1878, vol. 1, no. 11.
690
* Citronen: newspaper, 1880, no. 60, 2-4 November.
692
Rosen, Julius: Ein Engel [R].
--
* Ein Engel: playbill, 11 December 1879.
678
Rosen, Julius: Ein freier Mann [R].
--
* Ein freier Mann: newspaper, 1 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 29.
Rosen, Julius: Halbe Dichter.
690
--
* Halbe Dichter: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von: Unsere Sclaven.
* Unsere Sclaven: newspaper, 19 February 1887, season 1886-1887, no. 37.
Salingré, Hermann: Berliner Kinder [R].
708
-705
--
* Berliner Kinder: playbill, 13-15 March 1880.
679
* Berliner Kinder: playbill (oversized), Thalia Theater, 22-24 March 1886.
722
* Berliner Kinder: playbill, 22-24 March 1886 (fragment of the oversized playbill
687
above).
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* Berliner Kinder: playbill, circa 28 November 1891.
685
* Berliner Kinder: newspaper, 1881, no. 4, 8-13 January.
693
* Berliner Kinder: newspaper, 4-12 April 1885 (b), vol. 3, 29th week.
704
* Berliner Kinder: newspaper, 19 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 16.
705
* Berliner Kinder: newspaper, 28 November 1891.
708
Salingré, Hermann: Der Budiker und sein Kind [R].
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* Der Budiker und sein Kind: newspaper, 8 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 30.
703
* Der Budiker und sein Kind: newspaper, 1880, no. 50, 9-11 October.
692
Salingré, Hermann: Comtesse Helene--see under: Schweitzer, J. B. von.
--
Salingré, Hermann: Pech-Schulze [R].
--
With music by Adolf Lang.
* Pech-Schulze: playbill, 6 November 1879.
678
* Pech-Schulze: playbill (oversized), 6 November 1879.
720
* Pech-Schulze: playbill (oversized), Concordia Operetten-Theater, 14-17 January
722
[1882].
* Pech-Schulze: playbill, 23 December [1883].
680
* Pech-Schulze: playbill, 6-10 March [1886].
682
* Pech-Schulze: playbill, Thalia Theater, week of 1 April [1886].
687
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* Pech-Schulze: newspaper, 23-29 December 1883, season 1883-1884, 15th week.
695
* Pech-Schulze: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (a).
707
* Pech-Schulze: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (b).
707
* Pech-Schulze: newspaper, 16 March 1889.
707
* Pech-Schulze: newspaper, Thalia Theater, 27 March 1886 (a).
711
* Pech-Schulze: newspaper, Thalia Theater, 27 March 1886 (b).
711
Salingré, Hermann: Torpedoes, oder: Ein Staats-Geheimnis!
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Co-authored by J. B. von Schweitzer.
* Torpedoes, oder: Ein Staats-Geheimnis!: newspaper, 19 April 1878, vol. 1, no. 1.
690
Sand, George: "Le grillon" (story)--see: Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte, Die Grille.
--
Sardou, Victorien: Die alten Junggesellen.
--
German translation of Les vieux garçons (translator unknown).
* Die alten Junggesellen: playbill (oversized), Residenz-Theater, Berlin, 2 June 1873.
722
Sardou, Victorien: Andrea Férreol--see: Schelcher, R., Férreol.
--
Sardou, Victorien: Der Ehemann vor der Thür.
--
German translation of Papillonne (translator unknown).
* Der Ehemann vor der Thür: newspaper, 16 April 1892.
Sardou, Victorien: Fedora.
698
--
German translation of Fédora (translator unknown).
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* Fedora: newspaper, 19 March 1887, season 1886-1887, no. 40.
Sardou, Victorien: Rose Michel.
705
--
German translation of an unidentified French play by Sardou (translator unknown).
* Rose Michel: newspaper, 1 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 29.
Sardou, Victorien--see also: Laube, Heinrich, Eine Ehe von heute (translation of an
690
--
unidentified play by Sardou).
Sauer: Der Bombardier im Feuer.
--
* Der Bombardier im Feuer: newspaper, Turner Halle, 22-27 May 1881.
Scheffel, Joseph Viktor von: Der Trompeter von Säkkingen [or "Säckingen"] (epic
702
--
poem)--the basis for the opera of the same title composed by Victor Ernst Nessler.
* Der Trompeter von Säkkingen: newspaper, 10 March 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 32.
696
Scheiden, B.--see: Paul, C. A.
--
Schelcher, R.: Der Fall Clemenceau--see: Artois, Armand d', L'affaire Clémenceau.
--
Schelcher, R.: Ferreol.
--
German translation of the French play Andrea Férreol, by Victorien Sardou.
* Ferreol: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
708
Schiller, Friedrich: Die Braut von Messina, oder: Die feindlichen Brüder.
* Die Braut von Messina, oder: Die feindlichen Brüder: newspaper, 8 March 1890.
Schiller, Friedrich: Kabale und Liebe.
-697
--
- Page 148 -
* Kabale und Liebe: newspaper, 16 March 1889.
Schiller, Friedrich: Maria Stuart.
707
--
* Maria Stuart: playbill, 28 August - 1 September 1879.
678
* Maria Stuart: newspaper, 8 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 30.
703
Schiller, Friedrich: Die Räuber.
--
* Die Räuber: newspaper, 6 February 1892.
709
* Die Räuber: newspaper, 28 February 1895, no. 23.
710
Schiller, Friedrich: Turandot, Prinzessin von China [R].
* Turandot, Prinzessin von China: playbill (oversized), 10-11 November 1890.
Schiller, Friedrich: Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua.
-724
--
* Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua: newspaper, 20 October 1888.
706
* Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua: newspaper, 7 November 1891 (b).
708
Schiller, Friedrich: Wilhelm Tell.
--
* Wilhelm Tell: playbill, 30 November [1884].
681
* Wilhelm Tell: playbill (oversized), 3-5 November [1887].
721
* Wilhelm Tell: newspaper, 29 November - 6 December 1884, vol. 3, 11th week.
704
* Wilhelm Tell: newspaper, 5 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 13.
705
705
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Schlesinger, Sigmund: Die Gustel von Blasewitz [R].
* Die Gustel von Blasewitz: newspaper, 8 November 1894, no. 7.
Schneider, L. (Louis): Die eiserne Maske [R].
705
-710
--
Sometimes performed under the title Gaston, der Mann mit der eisernen Maske; based
on the French play L'homme au masque de fer by Auguste Jean François Arnould and
Narcisse Fournier.
* Die eiserne Maske: playbill (oversized), 28-29 January [1879].
720
* Die eiserne Maske: playbill (oversized), 3-5 November [1887].
721
* Die eiserne Maske: newspaper, 9-15 December 1883, season 1883-1884, 13th week.
695
* Die eiserne Maske: newspaper, 5 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 13.
705
Schneider, L. (Louis): Die Memoiren des Teufels [R].
--
Based on the French play Les mémoires du diable by Etienne Arago and Paul Vermond
(Eugène Guinot).
* Die Memoiren des Teufels: newspaper, 4 October 1878, vol. 1, no. 25.
Schneider, L. (Louis): Die schöne Müllerin [R].
* Die schöne Müllerin: newspaper, Turner Halle, 22-27 May 1881.
Schönfeldt, Georg: Washington, Befreier Nord-Amerikas [R].
* Washington, Befreier Nord-Amerikas: newspaper, 21 February 1879, vol. 1, no. 45.
Schönthan, Franz von: Frau Director Striese.
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703
-702
-703
--
Sequel to Der Raub der Sabinerinnen; co-authored by Paul von Schönthan.
* Frau Director Striese: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
Schönthan, Franz von: Die goldene Spinne.
704
--
* Die goldene Spinne: playbill (oversized), 10-15 February [1888].
721
* Die goldene Spinne: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
704
Schönthan, Franz von: Krieg im Frieden--see under: Moser, Gustav von.
--
Schönthan, Franz von: Der Raub der Sabinerinnen. [R]
--
Co-authored by Paul von Schönthan.
* Der Raub der Sabinerinnen: playbill (oversized), 11-15 April 1890.
724
* Der Raub der Sabinerinnen: newspaper, 12 April 1890.
707
* Der Raub der Sabinerinnen: newspaper, 7 November 1891 (a).
708
Schönthan, Franz von: Roderich Heller.
--
* Roderich Heller: newspaper, 11 January 1894, no. 14.
Schönthan, Franz von: Der Schwabenstreich.
* Der Schwabenstreich: newspaper, 24 October 1885.
710
-704
Schönthan, Franz von: Unsere Frauen [R]--see under: Moser, Gustav von.
--
Schönthan, Paul von: Frau Director Striese--see under: Schönthan, Franz von.
--
Schönthan, Paul von: Der Raub der Sabinerinnen [R]--see under: Schönthan, Franz
--
von.
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Schoppe, William: Die Reise durch Philadelphia in 24 Stunden.
* Die Reise durch Philadelphia in 24 Stunden: newspaper, 1881, no. 12, 29 January - 3
-693
February.
* Die Reise durch Philadelphia in 24 Stunden: newspaper, 1881, no. 13, 3-5 February.
Schweitzer, J. B. von: Comtesse Helene.
693
--
Co-authored by Hermann Salingré); with music by Rudolf Bial.
Comtesse Helene: playbill (oversized), 8-15 April [1891].
724
Comtesse Helene: newspaper, 11 April 1891.
708
Schweitzer, J. B. von: Großstädtisch [R].
--
* Großstädtisch: newspaper, 8 March 1890.
697
* Großstädtisch: newspaper, 22 March 1890.
707
Schweitzer, J. B. von: Torpedoes--see under: Salingré, Hermann.
--
Scribe, Eugène: Bataille de dames--see: Olfers, Frauenkampf .
--
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet
--
In German translation.
* Hamlet: newspaper, 1881, no. 34, 24-28 March.
694
* Hamlet: newspaper, 6 February 1892.
709
Shakespeare, William: Othello, der Mohr von Venedig.
German translation of Othello.
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--
* Othello, der Mohr von Venedig: newspaper, 29 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 33.
703
* Othello, der Mohr von Venedig: newspaper, 20 October 1888.
706
* Othello, der Mohr von Venedig: newspaper, 5 January 1889.
706
Shakespeare, William: Richard III.
--
In German translation.
* Richard III: newspaper, 21 January 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 25.
Shakespeare, William: Romeo und Julie.
706
--
German translation of Romeo and Juliet.
* Romeo und Julie: newspaper, 12 March 1887, season 1886-1887, no. 39.
Stahl, Francis: Der rechte Schlüssel.
705
--
* Der rechte Schlüssel: newspaper, 7 November 1891 (a).
708
* Der rechte Schlüssel : newspaper, 7 November 1891 (b).
708
Stinde, Julius: Ihre Familie.
--
Co-authored by Georg Engels; based on stories by Stinde about the family Buchholz.
* Ihre Familie: newspaper, 3 December 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 18.
696
* Ihre Familie: newspaper, 10 March 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 32.
696
* Ihre Familie: newspaper, circa 17 October 1891.
698
Storch, Ludwig: Der Freiknecht (novel)--see: Birch-Pfeiffer, Charlotte, Hinko.
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--
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin (novel)--see: Megerle, Therese von,
--
Onkel Tom.
Sudermann, Hermann: Die Ehre [R].
--
* Die Ehre: playbill (oversized), 11-15 April 1890.
724
* Die Ehre: newspaper, 12 April 1890.
707
* Die Ehre: newspaper, New Park Theatre, season 1890-1891, vol. II, no. 4.
700
* Die Ehre: newspaper, 28 February 1895, no. 23.
710
Sudermann, Hermann: Sodoms Ende.
--
* Sodoms Ende: newspaper, 21 February 1891.
698
* Sodoms Ende: newspaper, 11 April 1891.
708
* Sodoms Ende: newspaper, 25 April 1891.
708
Tenelli, M.: Die Mönche [R].
--
* Die Mönche: newspaper, 23 August 1878, vol. 1, no. 19.
Treptow, Leon: Flotte Weiber.
690
--
* Flotte Weiber: newspaper, 21 February 1891.
698
* Flotte Weiber: newspaper, 16 April 1892.
698
Treptow, Leon: Mensch ärgere dich nicht!.
--
* Mensch ärgere dich nicht!: newspaper, 30 April 1887, season 1886-1887, no. 43.
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705
Treptow, Leon: Quecksilber.
--
* Quecksilber: newspaper, 1880, no. 50, 9-11 October.
Treptow, Leon: Schützen-Lies'l
692
--
* Schützen-Lies'l: playbill, 5 October [1884].
681
* Schützen-Lies'l: newspaper, 1 February 1893, no. 28.
698
Treptow, Leon: Sein Steckenpferd.
--
* Sein Steckenpferd: newspaper, 4 October 1890.
Treptow, Leon: Unser Doktor.
697
--
Co-authored by Louis Herrmann.
* Unser Doktor: newspaper, 24 September 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 2.
Treptow, Leon: Unsere Don Juans.
705
--
* Unsere Don Juans: newspaper, 16 April 1892.
Treptow, Leon: Der weiße Rabe, oder: Ein ehrlicher Makler.
698
--
* Der weiße Rabe, oder: Ein ehrlicher Makler: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (a).
707
* Der weiße Rabe, oder: Ein ehrlicher Makler: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (b).
707
* Der weiße Rabe, oder: Ein ehrlicher Makler: newspaper, 16 March 1889.
707
Treptow, Leon: 20,000 Mark Belohnung.
--
With music by Paul Sentz.
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* 20,000 Mark Belohnung: newspaper, 21 January 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 25.
706
* 20,000 Mark Belohnung: newspaper, 25 February 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 30.
706
* 20,000 Mark Belohnung: newspaper, 10 March 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 32.
696
Treumann, Karl: Pariser Leben.
--
Based on the original French libretto La vie parisienne, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic
Halévy, for the operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach.
* Pariser Leben: playbill (oversized), Concordia Operetten-Theater, 14-17 January
722
[1882].
Triesch, Friedrich Gustav: Die Nixe.
--
* Die Nixe: newspaper, 16 April 1892.
698
Voges, O.: Engelmann's Rache--see under: Büller, W.
--
Voss, Richard: Schuldig!.
--
* Schuldig!: newspaper, 21 September 1892, no. 1.
709
Wehl, Feodor von: Ein modernes Verhängnis [R].
--
* Ein modernes Verhängnis: newspaper, Harmonie Hall, season 1897-1898.
Wehl, Feodor von: Die Tante aus Schwaben.
* Die Tante aus Schwaben: playbill, "Theatralische Abend-Unterhaltung" [theater
699
-689
Weidmann, Joseph: Der Dorfbarbier--see under: Weidmann, Paul.
--
Weidmann, Paul: Der Dorfbarbier.
--
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Co-authored by Joseph Weidmann; with music by Johann Schenk.
* Der Dorfbarbier: newspaper, 24 October 1892, no. 9.
Weirauch, August: Wenn Leute Geld haben! [R]
698
--
* Wenn Leute Geld haben!: newspaper, 29 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 33.
703
* Wenn Leute Geld haben!: newspaper, 15-19 May 1880.
691
Weller, A.: Luftschlösser--see under: Mannstädt, Wilhelm.
--
Wichmann, Paul Victor von Sebog und Glenz: Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers [R].
--
Performed under the title Cora, die Tochter des Pflanzers, based on Cora, ou:
L'esclavage, by Jules Barbier.
* Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers: playbill (oversized), 4-9 March [1889].
723
* Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers: playbill, 6 March 1889 (a).
684
* Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers: playbill, 6 March 1889 (b).
684
* Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers: newspaper, 1881, no. 31, 17-24 March.
694
* Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers: newspaper, 2 March 1889 (b).
707
* Cora, das Kind des Pflanzers: newspaper, 9 March 1889 (b).
707
Wildenbruch, Ernst von: Die Haubenlerche.
* Die Haubenlerche: newspaper, 21 February 1891.
Wildenbruch, Ernst von: Die Quitzows.
-698
--
- Page 157 -
* Die Quitzows: newspaper, 24 October 1892, no. 9.
Wilken, Heinrich: Apfelröschen.
698
--
Co-authored by Oskar Justinus.
* Apfelröschen: playbill, 5 October [1884].
681
Wilken, Heinrich: Ehrliche Arbeit.
--
* Ehrliche Arbeit: newspaper, 3 December 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 18.
Wilken, Heinrich: Goldene Berge.
696
--
* Goldene Berge: newspaper, 20 December 1890.
Wilken, Heinrich: Jane Eyre, die Waise von Lowood--see under: Die Waise von
708
--
Lowood, below.
Wilken, Heinrich: Kyritz-Pyritz.
--
Co-authored by Oskar Justinus.
* Kyritz-Pyritz: newspaper, 24 September 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 2.
705
* Kyritz-Pyritz: newspaper, 12 November 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 15.
705
* Kyritz-Pyritz: newspaper,10 March 1888, season 1887-1888, no. 32.
696
Wilken, Heinrich: Der Löwe des Tages.
--
With music by Carl Millöcker.
* Der Löwe des Tages: newspaper, 1880, no. 68, 20-25 November.
Wilken, Heinrich: Luftschlösser, oder: Viel Vergnügen.
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692
--
* Luftschlösser, oder: Viel Vergnügen: playbill, 7 November 1878.
677
* Luftschlösser, oder: Viel Vergnügen: clipping from Philadelphia Tageblatt, 8
690
November 1878, containing ad for Germania Theater.
Wilken, Heinrich: Mein Herzensfritz--see under: Mannstädt, Wilhelm.
--
Wilken, Heinrich: Die Waise von Lowood.
--
Based on the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
* Die Waise von Lowood: newspaper, 3 December 1887, season 1887-1888, no. 18.
Wolff: Unter dem Gaslicht.
696
--
* Unter dem Gaslicht: newspaper, 1880, no. 71, 27 November - 2 December.
Wolff, Pius Alexander: Preciosa.
692
--
* Preciosa: newspaper, 2 March 1889 (a).
707
Woltereck, Friedrich: Ein Wechsel [R].
--
* Ein Wechsel: playbill, 14 March 1878.
677
Wood, Henry, Mrs.: East Lynne.
--
German-language dramatic adaptation of the novel of the same title (translator/adapter
unknown).
* East Lynne: newspaper, 14 June 1878, vol. 1, no. 9.
Young, Betty: Die rothe Liesel [R].
703
--
* Die rothe Liesel: newspaper, 15 November 1878, vol. 1, no. 31.
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690
Index of Works by Unidentified Authors
* Die rothe Liesel: newspaper, 21 February 1879, vol. 1, no. 45.
703
Index of Works by Unidentified Authors.
Note
All of the following plays that remain unidentified are referred to by title alone in playbills and theater
newspapers, in brief announcements of future performances.
Folder
Barber and Banker: playbill, "To-Night at the Bijou (Petersen's Hotel)," undated.
675
Dolores: newspaper, 18 January 1894, no. 15.
710
500,000 Teufel: playbill (oversized), 3-7 November 1881.
720
500,000 Teufel: playbill, 9-11 November 1883.
680
Die Geheimnisse von Philadelphia: playbill, 5 October [1884].
681
Die Geheimnisse von Philadelphia: newspaper, 28 February 1895, no. 23.
710
Ein Gottesurtheil: playbill, 5 October [1884].
681
Li Hong Joe, der Rattenkönig: playbill, "Theatralische Abend-Unterhaltung" [theater
689
's Lorle [possibly: Das Lorle, by August Wilhelm Hesse, or Dorf und Stadt, by
709
Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer]: newspaper, 12 March 1892.
Luftschlösser [author unspecified; there are at least two plays by this title, one by
Wilhelm Mannstädt and A. Weller, and the other by Heinrich Wilken]: playbill
(oversized), Deutsches Theater, Maennerchor Hall, 26-28 April [circa 1878].
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722
Index by Composer Name
Lumpenmüller's Lieschen: playbill, 5 October [1884].
681
Eine moderne Ehe: newspaper, 16 March 1889.
707
Olivette: playbill (oversized), Concordia Operetten-Theater, 14-17 January [1882].
722
Der Soldatenfreund: newspaper, 24 October 1892, no. 9.
698
Die Zigeuner: playbill (oversized), 3-7 November 1881.
720
Index by Composer Name.
Note
Titles indicate plays or operettas for which the composer is known to have composed music, as
advertised in playbills or theater newspapers. Cross-references given here are to the author of the text
under whose name the full listing can be found in the Author/Title Index to Playbills and Theater
Newspapers, above.
Bätz, G.: Die beiden Reichenmüller--see under: Anno, Anton.
Bial, Rudolf: Die alte Schachtel--see under: Pohl, Emil.
Bial, Rudolf: Comtesse Helene--see under: Schweitzer, J. B. von.
Bial, Rudolf: Die Maurer von Berlin--see under: Pohl, Emil.
Bial, Rudolf: Mein Leopold--see under: L'Arronge, Adolph.
Catenhusen, Ernst: Der Rattenfänger von Hameln--see under: Görner, C. A. (Carl August).
Conradi, August: Bruder Liederlich--see under: Pohl, Emil.
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Conradi, August: Eine verfolgte Unschuld--see under: Pohl, Emil.
Conradi, August: Das Volk wie es weint und lacht--see under: Berg, O. F.
Gabriel, Max: Grünhörner--see under: Dobers, Hans.
Hauptner, Thuiskon: Die Afrikanerin--see under: Jacobson, Eduard.
Hauptner, Thuiskon: Berliner Kinder--see under: Salingré, Hermann.
Hauptner, Thuiskon: Singvögelchen--see under: Jacobson, Eduard.
Hauptner, Thuiskon: Singvögelchen--see under: Jacobson, Eduard.
Hauptner, Thuiskon: Wenn Leute Geld Haben!--see under: Weirauch, August.
Lang, Adolf: Pech-Schulze--see under: Salingré, Hermann.
Lang, Adolf: Eine Nacht in Berlin--see under: Hopf, Albert.
Lauer, C. Harry (music director in Philadelphia: at Germania Theater, circa 1881-1883, and at Thalia
Theater in 1886): Die rothe Liesel--see under: Young, Betty.
Michaelis, G. (Gustav): Die Tochter der Harfenistin--see under: Kneisel, Rudolf.
Millöcker, Carl: Drei paar Schuhe--see under: Görlitz, Karl.
Millöcker, Carl: Der Löwe des Tages--see under: Wilken, Heinrich.
Millöcker, Carl: Die Näherin--see under: Held, Ludwig.
Mohr, Adolf: Luftschlösser--see under: Mannstädt, Wilhelm.
Müller, Adolf: Therese Krones--see under: Haffner, C. (Carl).
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Nessler, Victor E.: Der Trompeter von Säckingen--see under: Scheffel, Joseph Viktor von.
Offenbach, Jacques: Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein--see: Hopp, Julius, Die Großherzogin von
Geroldstein .
Offenbach, Jacques: Le mariage aux lanternes--see under: Carré, Michel.
Offenbach, Jacques: Orphée aux enfers--see: Kalisch, Ludwig, Orpheus in der Unterwelt.
Offenbach, Jacques: La vie parisienne--see: Treumann, Karl, Pariser Leben.
Schenk, Johann: Der Dorfbarbier--see under: Weidmann, Paul.
Sentz, Paul (music director at Germania Theater, Philadelphia, from mid 1880s through 1890s): Der
tolle Wenzel (according to the libretto held in the Learned Collection, folder 636, Sentz composed the
music)--see under: Mannstädt, Wilhelm.
Sentz, Paul (music director at Germania Theater, Philadelphia, from mid 1880s through 1890s):
20,000 Mark Belohnung--see under: Treptow, Leon.
Steffens, Gustav: Die schöne Ungarin--see under: Mannstädt, Wilhelm.
Steffens, Gustav: Schützen-Lies'l--see under: Treptow, Leon.
Steffens, Gustav: Spottvögel--see under: Mannstädt, Wilhelm.
Steffens, Gustav: Der Wald-Teufel--see under: Mannstädt, Wilhelm.
Sullivan, Arthur, Sir: H. M. S. Pinafore--see under: Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck).
Suppé, Franz von: Die schöne Galathée--see under: Henrion, Poly.
Wilhelm, Heinrich: Theater-Schülerin, oder: Verfehlter Beruf--see under: Pohl, Emil.
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