Kotzebue's Dramas - A Lexicon

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August von Kotzebue

Kotzebue's Dramas - A Lexicon is a one-volume reference work published by Wehrhahn Verlag in 2011 with entries on over 200 plays written by August von Kotzebue . It was edited by Johannes Birgfeld (* 1971), Julia Bohnengel (* 1970) and Alexander Košenina (* 1963). The individual lexicon texts were written by a large number of authors. In 2020 the band saw a second edition.

Overview of all the dramas described

The number of dramas written by Kotzebue is estimated at 250–260. Unprinted early dramas and the many prologues from Kotzebue's pen were not considered for the volume. The year of the first printing (Dr) as well as the first documented performance (EDA) appear after the title. It should be noted that the pieces often appeared in Kotzebue's almanac of dramatic games for social entertainment in the country in the autumn, postponed to the coming year . The alphabetical order of the drama titles follows that in the lexicon. (Of the printed works, however, there is no cunning against distrust in the lexicon . A comedy in one act. Based on the French [Dr 1806].)

  1. The evening hour. Drama in one act (Dr 1809, EDA 1812)
  2. The good bye. A sequel (Dr 1804)
  3. Farewell to Cassel. A touching Singspiel by Friedrich Germanus (Dr 1813)
  4. Adelheid von Wulfingen. A monument to the barbarey of the thirteenth century (Dr 1788, EDA 1787)
  5. Alfred. An opera in three acts (Dr 1817, EDA 1818)
  6. The alpine hut. An Opera in One Act (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  7. The old personal coachman Peter the Third. A true anecdote (Dr 1799, EDA 1797)
  8. The old love affairs. Comedy in one act (Dr 1812, EDA 1811)
  9. The Arab powder. A farce in two files edited by Holberg frey (Dr 1810, EDA 1810)
  10. Ariadne on Naxos. A tragic-comic triodrama (Dr 1803)
  11. The poor minnesinger. Play in one act (Dr 1811, EDA 1811)
  12. The poor poet. A play in one act (Dr 1813, EDA 1812)
  13. Poverty and nobility. A comedy in three acts (Dr 1795, EDA 1793)
  14. Babble or out of two evils the smallest. A historical farce in one act (Dr 1815, EDA 1817)
  15. The merciful brothers. Based on a true anecdote kept in the National-Zeitung from 1802 (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  16. Bayard. A play in five acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1800)
  17. The confession. A comedy in rhyming verses in one act (Dr 1806, EDA 1805)
  18. The two little Auvergnates. A drama in one act. (Based on a story by Bouilly.) (Dr 1813, EDA 1813)
  19. The two Klingsberg. A comedy in four acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1799)
  20. The two magicians. A prelude to the opening of the new theater in Reval (Dr 1809, EDA 1809)
  21. The Siege of Saragossa, or Pachter's wedding day. A comedy in four acts (Dr 1812, EDA 1810)
  22. Bela's escape. A play in two acts (Dr 1813, EDA 1812)
  23. The robbed. A comedy in one act (Dr 1817, EDA 1816)
  24. The visit or the addiction to shine. A comedy in four acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1800)
  25. Blind charged. Comedy in one act (Dr 1811, EDA 1810)
  26. The blind gardener or the blooming aloe. A song game (Dr 1810, EDA 1810)
  27. Blind love. Comedy in three acts (Dr 1806, EDA 1805)
  28. The pillage. A comedy in one act (Dr 1806, EDA 1805)
  29. Bride and groom in one person. Posse in two acts (Dr 1814, EDA 1813)
  30. The letter from Cadix. A drama in three acts (Dr 1813, EDA 1811)
  31. The glasses island. A fantastic opera in two acts (Dr 1817, EDA 1840)
  32. Brother Moritz, the eccentric or the colony for the Pelew Islands. Comedy in three acts (Dr 1791, EDA 1790)
  33. Book auction in the year three thousand two hundred and eleven. A fragment (Dr 1821)
  34. The Capitain Belronde. A comedy in three acts by Picard, arranged for the German stage (Dr 1817, EDA 1818)
  35. Carolus Magnus. Comedy in three acts (Dr 1806, EDA 1805)
  36. The Citherschläger and the Gaugericht. An old German comedy in two acts (Dr 1817, EDA 1816)
  37. Cleopatra. A tragedy (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  38. The Corsican. A play in four acts (Dr 1799, EDA 1797)
  39. Demetrius Iwannowitsch Zaar of Moscow. A Russian original tragedy in five acts (Dr 1994, EDA 1782)
  40. The deserter. A farce in one act (Dr 1808, EDA 1807)
  41. The German housewife. A play in three acts (Dr 1813, EDA 1812)
  42. The German small townspeople. A comedy in four acts (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  43. The German man and the noble people. A moral painting in four acts (Dr 1818, EDA 1817)
  44. Doctor Bahrdt with the iron forehead, or The German Union against Zimmermann. A play in four acts, by Freyherrn von Knigge (Dr 1790)
  45. Don Ranudo de Colibrados. A comedy in four acts. Edited after Holberg frey (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  46. The village in the mountains. A play with singing in two acts (Dr 1798, EDA 1798)
  47. Dramatic Charade (Dr 1821)
  48. Three fathers at once! A Farce in One Act (Dr 1816, EDA 1815)
  49. The noble lie. Play in one act. Continuation of hatred and remorse (Dr 1792, EDA 1791)
  50. Edward in Scotland, or a refugee's night. A historical drama in three acts by Düval, from the manuscript given by the author; frey translated by August von Kotzebue (Dr 1804, EDA 1803)
  51. The Education Council. A comedy in one act (Dr 1816, EDA 1815)
  52. The jealous woman. A comedy in two acts after the English (Dr 1820, EDA 1819)
  53. u. A. wg or the invitation card. A Schwank in One Act (Dr 1818, EDA 1817)
  54. The English goods. Posse in two acts (Dr 1809, EDA 1809)
  55. The unmasked pious or a sample of the spirit of the times. A comedy. First and fourth act by August von Kotzebue. Put to print after his death (Dr 1819)
  56. The epigram. A comedy in four acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1798)
  57. The inheritance. Play in one act (Dr 1808, EDA 1808)
  58. The Hermit on Formentera. A play with singing in two acts (Dr 1788, EDA 1785)
  59. The donkey's shadow or the process in crow's corner. A farce (Dr 1810, EDA 1809)
  60. Eulenspiegel. A dramatic sway, in one act, and in casual rhymes (Dr 1806, EDA 1801)
  61. Expectorations. A work of art and at the same time a prelude to the Alarcos (Dr 1803)
  62. False shame. A play in four acts (Dr 1798, EDA 1795)
  63. Fanchon the Leyer girl. Vaudeville in three acts by Bouilly. Translated from the French by August von Kotzebue (Dr 1805, EDA 1804)
  64. Feodora. A Singspiel in One Act (also called The Emperor and the Russian Girl. A Play with Singing ) (Dr 1812, EDA 1811)
  65. The trial by fire. Comedy in one act (Dr 1811, EDA 1811)
  66. A Roman's curse. Acting in One Act (Dr 1814, EDA 1814)
  67. The river god Niemen and Nochemand. A play of joy in Knittelversen, song and dance, performed at the Theater zu Reval for the Feyer des Freudenfestes when the last remnants of the French were chased over the Niemen by the brave Russians (Dr 1813, EDA 1812)
  68. The French small townspeople. A comedy in four acts by Picard (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  69. The woman from the house. A comedy (Dr 1820)
  70. The Freemason. Comedy in One Act (Dr 1818, EDA 1817)
  71. The princely tomboy or mistake and doctrine. A comedy in two acts with some chants, based on Bouilly and Desaugiers, freely arranged (Dr 1819, EDA 1810)
  72. The dangerous neighborhood. A comedy in one act (Dr 1806, EDA 1805)
  73. The prisoner. A comedy in one act (Dr 1800, EDA 1798)
  74. The straight route is the best. Comedy in One Act (Dr 1817, EDA 1816)
  75. The ghost. A romantic play in four acts. With choirs and chants (also under the title Deodata ) (Dr 1808, EDA 1809)
  76. The divided heart. A comedy in one act (Dr 1813, EDA 1812)
  77. The bullfinch at the fair. A farce in two acts (Dr 1805, EDA 1805)
  78. Gisela. A play in four acts, for which German history provided the material (Dr 1818, EDA 1817)
  79. Lucky ones. Comedy in one act (Dr 1811, EDA 1810)
  80. Count Benjowsky or the conspiracy on Kamchatka. A play in five acts (Dr 1795, EDA 1794)
  81. The Count of Burgundy. A play in five [correct: four] acts (Dr 1798, EDA 1795)
  82. The count of equals. A game for living puppets (Dr 1808, EDA 1815)
  83. Great court meeting in Paris. Portrayed by August von Kotzebue (Dr 1813)
  84. The great actor, Napoleon Buonaparte, farewell speech to the Germans after the battle at La Belle Alliance (created 1815/1816, EDA 1816)
  85. The grandmother. A comedy in one act (Dr 1816, EDA 1815)
  86. Gustav Wasa. A play in five acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1800)
  87. The domestic quarrel. A comedy in one act (Dr 1810, EDA 1809)
  88. The pride and the baskets. An intermezzo (Dr 1809, EDA 1814)
  89. The rooster strike. Play in one act (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  90. Hans Max Giesbrecht von der Humpenburg or the new age of knights. Comic Opera in One Act (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  91. The harem. A comedy in one act (Dr 1810, EDA 1810)
  92. Of hate and love, vengeance. Play from the Spanish War in five acts (Dr 1815, EDA 1815)
  93. Heinrich Reuss von Plauen or the Siege of Marienburg. A tragedy in five acts (Dr 1805, EDA 1805)
  94. Herrmann and Thusnelde. A heroic opera in three acts (Dr 1819, EDA 1815)
  95. Mr. Gottlieb Merks, the egoist and Criticus. A burlesque in two acts (Dr 1810)
  96. The wooden saber or the army show. A song play in an act (Dr 1817, EDA 1816)
  97. The pretty little cleaner. Comedy in one act (Dr 1805, EDA 1804)
  98. Hugo Grotius. A play in four acts (Dr 1803, EDA 1803)
  99. The century-old oaks, or: The year 1914. A prelude with songs and dances (Dr 1821, EDA 1814)
  100. The Hussites at Naumburg in 1432. A patriotic play with choirs in five acts (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  101. Hygea. A prelude on the birthday of a good father (Dr 1805, EDA 1804)
  102. The hyperborean donkey or today's education. A drastic drama and philosophical comedy for youngsters, in one act (Dr 1799, EDA 1799)
  103. Incognico. A farce in two acts (Dr 1804, EDA 1804)
  104. The Indians in England. Comedy in three acts (Dr 1790, EDA 1789)
  105. The intermezzo or the squire for the first time in the residence. A comedy in five acts (Dr 1810, EDA 1808)
  106. Johanna of Montfaucon. A fourteenth century romantic painting in five acts (Dr 1800, EDA 1799)
  107. The cage. A comic opera in one act (Dr 1815, EDA 1816)
  108. Emperor Claudius. Play in one act (Dr 1807, EDA 1806)
  109. The cat and the rose bush. Comedy in one act (Dr 1807, EDA 1818)
  110. The Kiffhäuser Berg. An Opera in One Act (Dr 1817, EDA 1817)
  111. The child of love. A play in five acts (Dr 1791, EDA 1790)
  112. The complaining husbands. A touching drama (Dr 1795)
  113. The little Declamator. Acting in one act (Dr 1809, EDA 1809)
  114. The little gypsy. A play in four acts (Dr 1810, EDA 1809)
  115. The clever woman in the forest, or: the dumb knight. A magic game in five acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1799)
  116. The most delicious. Play in one act (Dr 1806)
  117. The comedian for love. Comedy in one act (Dr 1811, EDA 1811)
  118. The Cossack and the Volunteer. A play of songs in one act (Dr 1815, EDA 1813)
  119. The crusaders. A play in five acts (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  120. The country house on Heerstrasse. A carnival game in one act (Dr 1809, EDA 1808)
  121. The linen weaver. Play in one act (Dr 1808, EDA 1807)
  122. The dear village. Dramatic idyll (Dr 1807, EDA 1806)
  123. The lovers' theater in front of the parliament. A sequel with singing (Dr 1788, EDA 1786)
  124. The reward of the truth. A play in five acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1798)
  125. The enemy of lies. Comedy in one act (Dr 1812, EDA 1811)
  126. The comedy at the window. Posse in one act (Dr 1807, EDA 1807)
  127. Girlfriendship or the Turkish envoy. Comedy in one act (Dr 1805, EDA 1805)
  128. The man of forty years. A comedy in one act. After the French des Fayan (Dr 1795, EDA 1794)
  129. Marie. A dramatic idyll (Dr 1818, EDA 1817)
  130. The masks. A play in one act (Dr 1813, EDA 1812)
  131. Max Helfenstein. A comedy in two acts (Dr 1812, EDA 1811)
  132. Hatred and remorse. Drama in five acts (Dr 1790, EDA 1788)
  133. The night cap of the prophet Elias. Posse in one act (also under the title Die Zaubermütz. Singspiel in one act ) (Dr 1814, EDA 1814)
  134. The negro slaves. A historical-dramatic painting in three acts (Dr 1796, EDA 1794)
  135. The new women's school. A comedy in three acts. Freely adapted from the French: Le secret du ménage (Dr 1812, EDA 1811)
  136. The new century. A farce in one act (Dr 1801, EDA 1799)
  137. Someone's underground journeys. A magic game in 4 scenes (Dr 1819, EDA 1816)
  138. Someone's Travel Adventure. A heroic tragic comedy. Side piece to the river god Niemen and Noch Jemand (Dr 1814, EDA 1814)
  139. Octavia. A tragedy in five acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1800)
  140. The victim death. A play in three acts (Dr 1798, EDA 1796)
  141. The organs of the brain. A comedy in three acts (Dr 1806, EDA 1805)
  142. Leased field cumin from Tippelskirchen. A carnival game in five acts (Dr 1812, EDA 1810)
  143. Page pranks. A farce in five acts (Dr 1804, EDA 1803)
  144. Pandoren's box. (Based on the fable of Hesiod.) A burlesque tragedy (Dr 1810)
  145. The papagoy. A play in three acts (Dr 1792, EDA 1791)
  146. Pervonte or the desires. A comic opera in three acts. (After a well-known fairy tale by Wieland.) (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  147. La Peyrouse. A play in two acts (Dr 1798, EDA 1796)
  148. La Peyrouse. A play. (Completely reworked.) (Dr 1818)
  149. Count Palatine Heinrich. First act, along with the plan for the whole tragedy. Printed after his death (Dr 1819)
  150. Antics, observing the time, on the occasion of the retreat of the French. Side piece to the river god Niemen etc. (Dr 1813)
  151. The post house in Treuenbrietzen. Comedy in one act (Dr 1808, EDA 1807)
  152. The princess of Cacambo. A comic opera in two acts (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  153. The Quakers. Play in one act (Dr 1812, EDA 1811)
  154. The roebuck or the guiltless guilty. A comedy in three acts (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  155. The respectable society. A farce in one act (Dr 1813, EDA 1812)
  156. The roses of the Lord of Malesherbes. A rural painting in one act. (The material was provided by a true anecdote told by Bouilly in his Contes à ma fille.) (Dr 1813, EDA 1812)
  157. The rose maids. Comical opera in three acts, arranged by Théaulon for the German stage by Kotzebue (Dr 1819, EDA 1818)
  158. The red coat. A folk march after Musäus, arranged for the stage in four acts (Dr 1817, EDA 1816)
  159. Rudolph von Habsburg and King Ottokar of Bohemia. A historical drama in six acts (Dr 1815, EDA 1813)
  160. Rübezahl. A play in one act (Dr 1804, EDA 1803)
  161. The return of the volunteers or the patriotic vow. A comedy in one act (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  162. The call. A dramatic didactic poem in three acts (Dr 1817, EDA 1817)
  163. The ruins of Athens. A sequel with choirs and chants (Dr 1812, EDA 1812)
  164. The black in Germany. A comedy in four acts (Dr 1806, EDA 1806)
  165. The velvet skirt. Comedy in one act (Dr 1807, EDA 1806)
  166. The unwilling actor. A comedy in one act. Edited from the French frey (Dr 1803, EDA 1804)
  167. The mischievous Freyer. A comedy in one act (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  168. The cunning widow or the temperaments. Farce in one act (Dr 1803, EDA 1803)
  169. The beautiful stranger. A dramatized story (Dr 1787)
  170. The desk, or the dangers of youth. A play in four acts (Dr 1800, EDA 1798)
  171. The carpenter. A Singspiel in one act. Adapted from the comedy of the same name by August von Kotzebue (Dr 1799, EDA 1799)
  172. The women's school. A comedy in five acts. By Moliere, frey, but faithfully translated by August von Kotzebue (Dr 1805, EDA 1803)
  173. The guardian spirit. A dramatic legend in six acts plus a prelude (Dr 1814, EDA 1814)
  174. The transmigration of souls, or the unwilling actor in a different way. A Schwank (Dr 1816, EDA 1816)
  175. The sea battle and the monkey. Posse in an Act (Dr 1809, EDA 1809)
  176. The suicides. A drama in one act (Dr 1819, EDA 1819)
  177. The rare disease. Posse in two acts (Dr 1814, EDA 1813)
  178. The Shawl. A comedy in one act (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  179. The silver wedding. A play in five acts (Dr 1799, EDA 1797)
  180. The sun virgin. A play in five acts (Dr 1791, EDA 1789)
  181. Worry without need and need without worry. Comedy in five acts (Dr 1810, EDA 1809)
  182. The Spanish in Peru or Rolla's death. A romantic tragedy in five acts (Dr 1796, EDA 1794)
  183. The piggy bank, or the poor candidate. A comedy in one act (Dr 1805, EDA 1804)
  184. The mirror or let it stay. A comedy in one act (Dr 1818, EDA 1817)
  185. The mirror knight. An opera in three acts (Dr 1791, EDA 1791)
  186. The beach right. Play in one act (Dr 1807, EDA 1806)
  187. The knitting needles. A play in four acts (Dr 1805, EDA 1804)
  188. The dumb one. Comedy in one act (Dr 1808, EDA 1808)
  189. Sultan Bimbambum or the Triumph of Truth. A moral heroi-tragi comedy (Dr 1804)
  190. Sultan Wampum or the Wishes. An oriental joke game with singing, in three acts (Dr 1794, EDA 1791)
  191. The paperback. A drama in three acts (Dr 1818, EDA 1817)
  192. The deaf and mute or the Abbe de l'Épée. Historical drama in five acts by Bouilly. Translated from French (Dr 1800, EDA 1800)
  193. The devil's pleasure palace. A natural magic opera in three acts (Dr 1801, EDA 1802)
  194. The valley of Almeria. A play in one act (Dr 1812, EDA 1811)
  195. Pharaoh's daughter. A comedy in one act (Dr 1804, EDA 1802)
  196. The dead nephew. A comedy in one act. Based on the French of Martainville (Dr 1804, EDA 1803)
  197. The drunkard. A string in two files, freely edited after Holberg (Dr 1805, EDA 1806)
  198. Ubaldo. A tragedy in five acts (Dr 1808, EDA 1808)
  199. Bad mood. A play in four acts (Dr 1799, EDA 1797)
  200. The clock and the almond cake (Dr 1804, EDA 1816)
  201. Reluctant first benefactor. A prelude with choirs (Dr 1812, EDA 1813)
  202. The unfortunate ones. A comedy in one act (Dr 1798, EDA 1797)
  203. Field Marshal Wellington's uniform. A comedy in one act (Dr 1816, EDA 1815)
  204. Our Fritz. A play in one act (Dr 1803, EDA 1802)
  205. The invisible girl. An intermezzo (Dr 1812, EDA 1811)
  206. The unwed. A drama in four acts (Dr 1808, EDA 1806)
  207. The calamity of Paris. A heroic comedy (Dr 1804, EDA 1802)
  208. The paternal expectation. A rural family scene in Esthland, with mixed chants (Dr 1789, EDA 1788)
  209. The father of about. A comedy in one act. Based on the French by Messrs Pain and Vieillard (Dr 1804, EDA 1803)
  210. The exiled Cupid, or: the suspicious married couple. Comedy in four acts (Dr 1810, EDA 1809)
  211. The disguises. A farce in two acts (Dr 1819, EDA 1819)
  212. The defamers. A play in five acts (Dr 1796, EDA 1795)
  213. Embarrassment and cunning. A comedy in three acts freely adapted from Contretems sur Contretems, by Pigault le Brun (Dr 1820, EDA 1819)
  214. The lost child. A play in one act (Dr 1806, EDA 1806)
  215. The unwilling secretary, or the trip from Berlin to Potsdam. A comedy in one act (Dr 1816, EDA 1815)
  216. Reconciliation. A play in five acts (Dr 1798, EDA 1796)
  217. The relationships. A comedy in five acts (Dr 1798, EDA 1797)
  218. The know-it-all. A comedy in five acts (Dr 1817, EDA 1815)
  219. The female Jacobin Clubb. A political comedy in one act (Dr 1792, EDA 1791)
  220. Who knows what this is for. A sway in one act (Dr 1815, EDA 1814)
  221. The West Indian. A comedy in five acts by Cumberland; auf's new for the German stage edited by August von Kotzebue (Dr 1815, EDA 1815)
  222. The tomboy. A comedy for digestion in three acts (Dr 1798, EDA 1795)
  223. The confusion, or the daring. A farce in five acts (Dr 1803, EDA 1801)
  224. The widow and the riding horse. A dramatic trifle (Dr 1796, EDA 1795)
  225. The desert. A dramatic poem (Dr 1818, EDA 1817)
  226. The scattered. A Farce in One Act (Dr 1810, EDA 1809)
  227. The walled up window. Comedy in one act (Dr 1811, EDA 1810)
  228. The return of the father. A prelude (Dr 1801, EDA 1800)
  229. Two nieces for one. Comedy in two acts (Dr 1814, EDA 1813)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preface, p. IX.