Historedia
Person

Abel Seyler

Events
1
Episodes
2
Years
1777

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Abel Seyler, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Premiere of Klinger's Sturm und Drang

    1777

    Role: theatre director, owner of the Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft

    1. 1777 · performance venue not identified in supplied sourcesFirst Performance of Klinger's Sturm und Drang

      Abel Seyler's theatrical company first performed Klinger's Sturm und Drang in 1777; the sources record the year but no specific day or city.

    2. 1777 · German literary movement named after the playThe Play Names the Sturm und Drang Epoch

      Klinger's Sturm und Drang gave its name to the proto-Romanticist movement in German literature and music of the late 1760s to early 1780s.

Sources

  1. Sturm und Drang Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-03