''Pension Schöller'' (English:''The Schöller Boardinghouse'') is a German

comedy play Comedy is a genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. For ancient Greeks and Romans, a comedy was a stage-play with a happy endin ...

Wilhelm Jacoby Wilhelm Jacoby (1855-1925) was a German playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces notably the 1890 work '' Pension Schöller'' which he co-authored with Carl Laufs. He was the father of the film director George Jacoby Georg Jacob ...

and Carl Laufs which was first performed in 1890.Grange p.259 The play was originally performed at Wallner Theatre in

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and quickly became a staple of German comic literature.

Film adaptations

The play has been turned into films on three occasions, in 1930, 1952 and 1960, all of them directed by

George Jacoby Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter.Profile
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. There have also been several television versions.

References

Bibliography

* Grange, William. ''Historical Dictionary of German Theater''. Scarecrow Press, 2006. Plays by Wilhelm Jacoby Plays by Carl Laufs 1890 plays German plays adapted into films {{1890s-play-stub