Players from Abroad
The Players from Abroad were a German emigrant ensemble in the USA. The stage, founded by Gert von Gontards in 1941 , was for a long time the only German-language theater in the United States.
Despite the foreign language, the group quickly became famous for their excellent New York productions. In particular, a cycle of Goethe productions as part of the celebrations for the Goethe year "Bicentennial" found echo in the American press ( Faust , Egmont , Iphigenie auf Tauris and Torquato Tasso were the pieces given) and were also recorded.
The Repertoire of the Players from Abroad included other German classics such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Schiller , but also the then modern German theater such as the plays of Hermann Bahr , Arthur Schnitzler and Gerhart Hauptmann . The ensemble also brought Scandinavian authors such as Ibsen and Strindberg in German.
Famous ensemble members of the Players from Abroad were z. B. Grete Mosheim and Elisabeth Bergner . Even Margaret Neff , who are already in the silent era after her marriage to Rudolf Klein-Rogge had retired from the film business is in the cast lists of the player - sometimes with more than one role per piece - to find.