Jean Rivard - University of British Columbia

Figure 4. The club's Christmas gathering in 1898. Felix Paul Grève, holding a stein, is in
the second row from the top, directly under the lamp. Kilian's name may be seen on the
blackboard in back at the top of a list of four names. He is the third from the left in the
second row. Lomberg is immediately to the right of Grève, Cappenberg on the left, looking
down into his stein.
tial professor of German (Höroldt: 400-403). No fewer than three plays were
chosen to be staged on each of the two evenings, beginning at 7 p.m. and
ending at 9:45 p.m.: Philotas, a tragedy by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,
Johann Wolfgang Goethe's one-act play Die Laune des Verliebten, and the
first of the three parts of Friedrich Schiller's drama Wallenstein. We know
that, according to the newspapers, both performances were considered great
successes. The net income was 1,121.50 marks. We also know that the monument
was dedicated in 1904. 7 But we have no visible proof that Grève participated
in the performances or even played a part. No cast of characters has
been found. However, the Rhenus log contains the following entry: "Of the
Rhenus officials, three were cast in major roles, three others played minor
speaking parts." At the time, Grève was "a Rhenus official." It would have
been strange, given Greve's ambition, if he had not been one of the participants.
One would have liked to know whether Grève had possibly played the
part of "Lamon" to a young lady playing the "Egle" in Goethe's short play,
with its classical presentation of two couples in love (Goethe 1968). His own
Helena und Damon (1902), although reduced in format to a pair of actors,
may have very well profited from the Bonn dramatic experience. Or did he,
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