The play was first published in 1882. The item is a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, 1882), which has been annotated as a prompt-book. The book is labeled on the front cover 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 title is listed in Bloch's catalog for his library, dated 1886 (see box 34). Names of actors and actresses noted on the page with the list of characters are recognizable from the casts of other German-language plays in Philadelphia, and together suggest a cast that would have performed around the mid 1880s. See also a theater newspaper advertising a performance (with a different cast) in Dec. 1887 (folder 696).
