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The Girl from Barnhelm (German: Das Fräulein von Barnhelm) is a 1940 German historical comedy film directed by Hans Schweikart and starring Käthe Gold, Ewald Balser and Fita Benkhoff. It is an adaptation of the 1767 play Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
Minna von Barnhelm or the Soldiers' Happiness (German: Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück, pronounced [ˈmɪnaː fɔn ˈbaʁnhɛlm ˈʔoːdɐ das zɔlˈdaːtn̩ˌɡlʏk] ⓘ) is a lustspiel or comedy by the German author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
The ladies who had taken Tellheim's rooms were Minna von Barnhelm, a rich girl of twenty-one, and Franziska, her maid. Minna was agitated, for she had come in search of Tellheim.
Dec 25, 2008 · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born at Kamenz, Germany, January 22, 1729, the son of a Lutheran minister. He was educated at Meissen and Leipzic, and began writing for the stage before he was twenty. In 1748 he went to Berlin, where he met Voltaire and for a time was powerfully influenced by him.
Minna von Barnhelm ( MIH -nah fon BAHRN -hehlm), a charming and beautiful young heiress betrothed to a former Prussian officer, Major Tellheim. Hearing no word from him after the peace, she...
The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm. After the war, the King - in an unwarranted move - deprives the major of his honor. Von Tellheim becomes impoverished and, filled with shame, breaks off his relationship to Minna.
Aug 26, 2006 · Minna von Barnhelm, a comedy. Edited with English notes, etc. by C.A. Buchheim by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; Buchheim, Karl Adolf, 1828-1900
