Materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, L. Lassar's Buchhandlung, n.d.), which has been annotated as a prompt-book; a handwritten sheet bearing revised lyrics for "Soldaten-Lied" (Act III, scene 6); 3 versions of a scenario, all handwritten; a handwritten item (letter) that served as a prop; and 18 handwritten role books, representing the following 16 parts: Fassmann, Böttchermeister; Eusebia, dessen Cousine; Emilie, seine Tochter; Frau Nehlich; Wilhelm, Lehrjunge; Franz, Schornsteinfeger (2 versions); Leopold, Handlungslehrling; Stockfisch and Theekessel (Bötchergesellen); ein Altgeselle (2 versions); Bergemann, Justizrath; Frau Zeter, Gastwirthin; Amalie, deren Tochter; Grützmacher, Unteroffizier; Probst; and kleiner Fritz. (The play has a few additional roles: der General; Purps; Wilhelm, 6 Jahre alt; Emilie, 5 Jahre alt; and eine Marketenderin.) The published copy likely dates from the 1860s. Music is attributed to Th. Hauptner. Music is included as follows: a published booklet, Duett aus "Berliner Kinder" (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, n.d.; Eduard Bloch's Couplet-Sammlung, no. 17); a homemade booklet, handwritten, of the piano score ("Clavierauszug") for the play, with lyrics; and handwritten musical scores for instruments, including violin, bass, clarinet, flute, and trombone. Pasted to the inside front cover of the published copy of the play is a playbill clipping (a newspaper advertisement) for a performance of the play at Deutsches Theater in der Turner-Halle on 4 May 1874. Also pasted to the inside front cover is a clipping (from an unidentified source) of several humorous anecdotes that have a military background. One of the scenarios, which probably dates from 1880, is signed by Hirschberg, an actor who performed in the play in 1880 and 1885. Names of actors and actresses written on role books reflect up to seven or eight casts in Philadelphia from 1880 to 1891. Names written opposite the character list in the published copy are cast members of Nov. 1887. The published copy, the music booklet "Clavierauszug," and several of the role books are labeled by hand as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia, from 1873 until at least the mid 1890s, first as an actor (he performed in this play in 1874) and later as a prompter, and who also ran a theater lending library. See the index in the collection's register for details about 4 theater newspapers (drawer 35) and 3 playbills (box 36 and drawer 36) documenting performances of the play in Philadelphia in 1880, 1881, 1885, 1886, 1887, and 1891.
