Der letzte Thaler : Original-Posse mit Gesang in drei Akten und vier Bildern, ca. 1855, 1878-1880.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Görner, C. A. (Carl August), 1806-1884.

Contributor:

Dohm, Ernst, 1819-1883.

Language:

German

Physical Description:

1 item

Contained In:

Learned Collection on German-Language Theater. Folder 136

Place of Publication:

ca. 1855, 1878-1880.

Language Note:

In German.

Summary:

The play is co-written by Görner and Ernst Dohm. The item is a published copy (Berlin: Theater-Commissions-Geschäft von H. Michaelson, n.d.), which has been annotated as a prompt-book, and labeled as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia from around the mid 1870s to the mid 1890s. One of Bloch's labels, on the title page, is possibly obscuring a publishing date; the book probably dates from the mid 1850s, since it announces the play as the newest in the repertoire of the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtisches Theater ("already performed 20 times"). Music is attributed to A. Lang. (No music is included here.) The names of actors and actresses noted on the page giving the list of characters are recognizable from the casts of other German-language plays performed in Philadelphia in the late 1870s. The collection's holdings of theater newspapers and playbills do not, however, include any reference to this play.