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    The Seyler Theatre Company, also known as the Seyler Company (German: Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft, sometimes Seylersche Truppe), was a travelling...
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    Abel Seyler (23 August 1730, Liestal – 25 April 1800, Rellingen) was a Swiss-born theatre director and former merchant banker, who was regarded as one...
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    the theatre director Abel Seyler, whom she married in 1772, as the leading actress of the Hamburg National Theatre and later of the Seyler Theatre Company...
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    affiliated with the Gotha Court Theatre under Konrad Ekhof's direction—essentially an offshoot of the Seyler Theatre Company—also joined him; Ekhof himself...
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    theatre in Germany, and also of the Sturm und Drang poets, was Abel Seyler, the owner of the Hamburgische Entreprise and the Seyler Theatre Company....
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    invited the Seyler Theatre Company led by Abel Seyler, pioneers of the Sturm und Drang movement, to her court in Weimar. The Seyler company was soon thereafter...
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  • Seyler is a surname, and may refer to: Seyler family, a Swiss-German family of artists and bankers, including Abel Seyler (1730–1801), Swiss theatre director...
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    1789, the year Seyler died. Seyler was married to the prominent theatre director Abel Seyler, the founder of the Seyler Theatre Company and a noted promoter...
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    National Theatre, was a theatre company in Hamburg (now Germany), that existed 1767–1769 at the Gänsemarkt square, and that was led by Abel Seyler. It was...
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  • language libretto by poet Christoph Martin Wieland is premièred by the Seyler Theatre Company at the Hoftheater Weimar, pioneering a German operatic style. June...
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  • Athene Seyler, CBE (31 May 1889 – 12 September 1990) was an English actress. She was born in Hackney, London; her German-born grandparents moved to the...
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    Hamburg (section Theatres)
    From the 1760s the theatre director Abel Seyler—the leader of the Hamburg National Theatre and subsequently the Seyler Theatre Company—established Hamburg...
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    influential cultural center of Germany. Her invitation of Abel Seyler's theatre company in 1771 marked the start of Weimar Classicism, that would include...
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  • Johann Gottlieb Hensel (category Seyler theatrical company)
    leading theatres of the 18th century, such as the Ackermann Company in Hamburg, the Hamburg National Theatre and the Seyler Theatre Company, and was...
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  • Sturm und Drang (category 18th-century theatre)
    play of the same name, which was first performed by Abel Seyler's famed theatrical company in 1777. The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is associated...
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    an Italian family. Her husband had joined Abel Seyler's travelling company, the Seyler Theatre Company, in 1775. Wilhelm A. Bauer, Mozart: Briefe und...
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    Konrad Ekhof (category Seyler theatrical company)
    the theatre principal Abel Seyler in the 1760s and 1770s, first at the Hamburg National Theatre and then at the travelling Seyler Theatre Company. In...
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    Rautenkranz, which had been founded by Abel Seyler, Konrad Ekhof and other members of the Seyler Theatre Company in the same year. In 1775, he was appointed...
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    Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's play Sturm und Drang is premiered by the Seyler Theatre Company in Leipzig, giving its name to the whole Sturm und Drang movement...
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  • and Drama in Germany: A Traveling Company and Its Repertory, 1767–1781, PhD dissertation on the Seyler Theatre Company, University of California, Berkeley...
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    services. The company's name refers to Johann Berenberg, his son-in-law Johann Hinrich Gossler and the latter's son-in-law L.E. Seyler, and has remained...
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    Basel. A Hamburg branch descended from the banker and renowned theatre director Abel Seyler became by marriage a part of the Berenberg banking dynasty, co-owners...
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    was a key figure of Weimar Classicism and a collaborator of Abel Seyler's theatre company. Christoph Martin Wieland was born in Oberholzheim (now part of...
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    Sturm und Drang (play) (category Seyler theatrical company)
    The play was first performed in Leipzig on 1 April 1777 by Abel Seyler's theatre company, where Klinger then was employed as a playwright. The play's original...
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    bill-jobbing" of the related companies Seyler & Tillemann and Müller & Seyler. Abel Seyler later became famous as a theatre director. Lindemann, Mary (2009)...
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    Berliner Ensemble (category Theatre companies in Germany)
    Ensemble (German pronunciation: [bɛʁˈliːnɐ ʔãˈsãːbl̩]) is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt...
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    patronage of Duchess Anna Amalia that had already included Abel Seyler's theatre company and Christoph Martin Wieland, and that formed the basis of Weimar...
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  • company's methodology had a great influence on Ibsen, Antoine, and Stanislavski. Innes, Christopher, ed. (2000). A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre....
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  • called the Hamburg National Theatre or the Hamburgische Entreprise, also known as Lessing's Dramaturgie, with Abel Seyler as its main backer. The dramaturgie...
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    John Neville, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Michael Redgrave, Athene Seyler, Sybil Thorndike and Peter Woodthorpe. The Festival Season usually runs...
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