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Robert and Bertram (play)

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First performance
  
6 February 1856

Playwright
  
Gustav Räder

Adaptations
  
Robert and Bertram (1961)

Robert and Bertram (German: Robert und Bertram) is a comedy play by the German writer Gustav Räder, which was first staged in 1856. It depicts the adventures of two wandering vagrants. It premiered in Dresden on 6 February 1856. It served as the basis for a variety of different stage versions, loosely modelled on it. It was later turned into an 1888 opera Robert and Bertram.

Adaptations

The play has been adapted into a number of films:

  • Robert and Bertram (1915 film), a silent German film adaptation directed by Max Mack
  • Robert and Bertram (1928 film), a silent German film adaptation directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein
  • Robert and Bertram (1938 film), a Polish film adaptation directed by Mieczysław Krawicz
  • Robert and Bertram (1939 film), a German film adaptation directed by Hans Heinz Zerlett
  • Robert and Bertram (1961 film), a German film adaptation directed by Hans Deppe

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