The play was first published in 1871. The file contains materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (n.d.; Druck von A. Paul & Co., Berlin) that has been annotated as a prompt-book, and 6 handwritten role books, for the following parts: Freiherr von Kostau, Gutsbesitzer; Dorothea von Bernack, Wittwe; Joseph Weiland, Candidate der Theologie; Ferdinand von Warnberg, des Freiherrn Neffe; and Hanne and Trine, zwei Bauernmädchen. (The character list shows 7 additional roles, all of which seem to have been included in performances: Clara Wallfried, Sängerin; Gallapfel; Fritz, Diener des Freiherrn; Töffel, Hans and Peter, drei Bauernbursche aus Dorf Kostau; and Lise, Bauernmädchen.) The published copy, which presumably dates from around 1871 or 1872, bears a pasted-on label on the title page for Eduard Bloch, Theater-Buchhändler, Berlin, which is apparently obscuring original publishing information. A playbill clipping (a newspaper ad) pasted to the inside front cover advertises the play as "new" and being performed for the first time in Philadelphia, at Deutsches Theater in der Turner Halle, on 2 June 1874. (It was performed under the title "Die Tochter der Hölle.") The published copy and all except one of the role books are labeled as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia from at least the early 1870s until the mid 1890s, first as an actor and later as a prompter, and who ran a theater lending library. The role books are well used, and names of actors and actresses discrenible on the covers reflect eight or more casts over time, spanning a time period from the mid 1870s through at least the early 1890s. See the index in the collection's register for details about 5 related theater newspapers (drawer 35) and 2 playbills (folders 685 and 724).
