Hochdeutsche Hofcomödianten

The Hochdeutsche Hofcomödianten, called Velthenska sällskapet (Velthen Company) in Sweden, was a travelling German theatre company, active in Germany from the 1650s, as well as in Poland, the Baltic and the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden between 1678 and 1712. The company played a vital role in the theater history of Scandinavia, where a local theater was not yet developed and where it toured from at least the 1690s onward: in 1707, it became the first professional theater to have performed in Norway.

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