Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand Von
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Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand Von (1761–1819), German dramatist, who in his day was more popular than his contemporary Schiller with the new audiences of the Revolutionary period, not only in Germany but all over Europe. He wrote over 200 melodramas, the most successful being
Menschenhaβ und Reue (1789), in which an erring wife obtains forgiveness from her husband by a life of atonement. As
The Stranger it was produced at
Drury Lane in 1798, the heroine, Mrs Haller, providing an excellent part for Mrs
Siddons, playing opposite her brother, John Philip
Kemble. It was frequently revived up to the end of the 19th century. Equally successful in the following year, with the same leading players, was
Pizarro, an adaptation by R. B.
Sheridan of
Die Spanier in Peru. In America Kotzebue's plays, in adaptations by
Dunlap, led to a vogue for melodrama which tended to eclipse more serious works and pandered to a craving for sensationalism. The best of Kotzebue's comedies is
Die deutschen Kleinstadten (1803), an entertaining skit on provincialism.
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Trying Sheridan's 'Pizarro'.(Richard Brinsley Sheridan)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Pizarro, adapted from the German of August von Kotzebue. Featuring an all-star cast...against Spain as announced by Kotzebue's title, Die Spanier in Peru...otherwise faithful translation of Kotzebue images from Sheridan's most...
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Penny Gay. Jane Austen and the Theatre.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...family theatrical production of Kotzebue's popular Lover's Vows...the sensational German import, August von Kotzebue are identified as important sources...Elizabeth Inchbald (who also adapted Kotzebue) at the end. Additionally...
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Franz Schubert's Music for the Theatre.
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...entire operatic output from the Kotzebue Singspiele of his mid-teens to the sketched outlines of Der Graf von Gleichen, on which he was working...after the settings of librettos by August von Kotzebue, they cover the five Singspiele...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/3/1994; 574 words
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The Temple of Night at Schonau: Architecture, Music, and Theater in a Late Eighteenth-Century Viennese Garden.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...theater impresario and wealthy businessman Baron Peter von Braun constructed an elaborate garden whose main attraction...lined with inscriptions by the well-known playwright August von Kotzebue, such as "Dark, like the path of life" and "Upward...
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AN AMUSING LESSON IN SCHUBERT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/17/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...was probably the American premiere. The libretto is August von Kotzebue, and it is a "magic opera" in the tradition of "The...it sounds like an early, unformed piece of Carl Maria von Weber's that you can't quite place; the use of trombones...
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Within these walls
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/16/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...shown too much interest in the history of the murdered Tsar, Ivan VI; he remembers the fate of the German poet August von Kotzebue, who spent a short exile in Siberia as a punishment for his indiscretions; and the Frenchman has a white night...
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Outer Space, Inner Rhythms: the concurrences of Jules Verne and Jacques Offenbach
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...are certain plays chosen for anthologies? Popularity in their own times is rarely the reason. John Fletcher, August von Kotzebue, Eugne Scribe, and Eduardo de Filippo are among the most performed playwrights in the history of European theatre...
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"A reasonable woman's desire": the private theatrical and Joanna Baillie's the Tryal.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...To overcome the luxury of boredom is the impetus behind the staging of Elizabeth Inchbald's 1798 translation of August von Kotzebue's Lovers' Vows (1791) in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), perhaps the best-known work of literature...
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August von Kotzebue
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
August von Kotzebue , 1761-1819, German dramatist and politician. He wrote...librettos to music were Beethoven, Schubert, and C. M. von Weber. After a stay in Russia, Kotzebue returned to Germany as an agent of Czar Alexander I. He...
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Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand Von
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand Von (1761–1819), German...Die Spanier in Peru. In America Kotzebue's plays, in adaptations by Dunlap...for sensationalism. The best of Kotzebue's comedies is Die deutschen Kleinstadten...
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Otto von Kotzebue
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...The Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846) commanded two...circumnavigated the world. Otto von Kotzebue was born at Revel (Tallin...supposed agent of Czar Alexander I, August von Kotzebue, whose assassination on March...
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Marshall Islands
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...brisk breezes, and the central month of the wet season, August, may have periods of total calm. For much of the year...1788. The nineteenth-century Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue was the first to develop a serious interest in the people...
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Carlsbad Decrees
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...states at a conference at Carlsbad that was convened and dominated by Prince Metternich following the murder of August von Kotzebue by a student. The decrees provided for uniform press censorship and close supervision of the universities, with...
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