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In one amateur production a young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe played the part of Werner. [3] In 1786 an English version The Disbanded Officer by James Johnstone appeared at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London. To date it is one of the most-performed plays in Germany.
MINNA VON BARNHELM is important for two reasons. First, it was a beginning of a drama native to Germany, with much appeal for its original audience: the historical background touched their...
MINNA VON BARNHELM is important for two reasons. First, it was a beginning of a drama native to Germany, with much appeal for its original audience: the historical background touched their...
…second great Breslau work is Minna von Barnhelm (1767), which marks the birth of classical German comedy. Goethe was to praise it for its contemporary relevance and for its central theme (the struggle between Prussia and Saxony in the Seven Years’ War), which was an event of national significance.
Considered the first German comedy, and still one of the best, Minna von Barnhelm shows Lessing, the so-called ‘father of German theatre’, turning from the tragic mode of his Miss Sara Sampson and the seriousness of Nathan the Wise.
The second great Breslau work is Minna von Barnhelm (1767), which marks the birth of classical German comedy. Goethe was to praise it for its contemporary relevance and for its central theme (the struggle between Prussia and Saxony in the Seven Years’ War), which was an event of national significance.
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Minna von Barnhelm (first performed and published 1767) This comedy is set in an inn in Berlin in 1763, months after the end of the Seven Years War (1756-63) between Prussia and Austria and their...
