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Minna von Barnhelm

Minna von Barnhelm is a character from a comedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

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  • Minna von Barnhelm

Minna von Barnhelm is a character from 'Minna von Barnhelm, oder das Soldatenglück', a comedy in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. This play from 1767 contains the term 'Frauenzimmerchen', which Alice Frank-Stern used as a pet name for her granddaughter Anne.[1]

Anne's nephew Buddy Elias from Basel played the role of the 'Wirt' in the play in 1944.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 28 September 1942, 5th note: Otto Frank to Anne Frank, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 30 June 1944, in: The Collected Works.