The House in Montevideo is a 1945 German comedy play by Curt Goetz. A strait-laced father of twelve discovers that his long-lost sister Josephine, who he had cast out of the family for having a child out of wedlock, has made a career as Maria Machado, an opera singer in Montevideo in Uruguay, and has now died, leaving some real estate as dowry to his eldest teenage daughter, Atlanta, who was named after the ship on which the couple was married at sea.