Theatre
Die Söhne des Öslings
Not translated into English
Nikolaus Welter · 1904
Synopsis
According to its subtitle, the play is a peasant drama in five acts set in the time of the French Revolution, and its title makes it the story of the men of the Ösling, the mountainous north of the country. Its plot is not known.
Context
Published in Diekirch by Schroell in 1904, the play was revised by the author for the second volume of his complete works, which appeared in Brunswick from Westermann in 1925, and was then reissued in Luxembourg in 1938. It belongs to Welter's series of historical and legendary dramas, which drew on mythology as much as on the history of the grand duchy, and is among his best-known works, along with a 1913 book on the blast furnace.
Who it is for
For those interested in German-language theatre in Luxembourg and in the way it staged the country's history.
Prizes and reception
Reissued until 1938, it is cited by the Luxembourg government among the works that made Welter a dramatist.