Minna von Barnhelm
Minna von Barnhelm is a character from a comedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
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,[1] which Alice Frank-Stern used as a pet name for her granddaughter Anne.[2]
Anne's nephew Buddy Elias from Basel played the role of the Wirt (innkeeper) in the play in 1944.[3]
Footnotes
- ^ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück: ein Lustspiel in fünf Aufzügen, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, [1929], p, 49 (via Delpher).
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 28 September 1942, 5th note: Otto Frank to Anne Frank (Mein liebes Annelein), 12 May 1939, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 30 June 1944, in: The Collected Works.