aThe play was first published in 1862. The file contains materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch / L. Lassar's Buchhandlung, n.d.), which appears to be annotated as a prompt-book; and 6 handwritten role books, for the following parts (the complete character list): Oskar von Osten; Louise, seine Frau; von Wahren, Louisens Onkel; Frau Kuhnert, Köchin; Rosa, Kammermädchen; and Johann, Diener. The published copy likely dates from around 1862; the reverse of the title page bears the note: "Den grösseren stehenden Bühnen gegenüber als Manuscript gedruckt und für diese nur durch H. Michaelson in Berlin zu beziehen." The book has been re-bound into a homemade cardboard cover (cut from an election poster for the 12th ward) that bears a label 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 title is listed in Bloch's catalog for his library, dated 1886 (see box 34). The role books have a uniform appearance and seem to have been written out by the same person. Among the names of actors or actresses noted on the front of several role books, at least two (Fräulein Ida Krause and Frau Schaumberg) are recognizable from casts of other German-language productions in Philadelphia, and could reflect a performance in the early 1880s. (The collection's holdings of theater newspapers and playbills contain no reference to this play.)
