Abt ventured through Saxony and Thuringia, finally opening up a stage in The Hague (Den Haag) with the support of the court and the high society on 16 October 1772 with the intention to introduce German theatre to the Netherlands.
On his stage, Abt played the first translations of Christian Felix Weiße's Romeo and Juliet and Lessing's Emilia Galotti.
After a stay in Düsseldorf, the historical recordings find Abt again in 1773, travelling in Leiden where he had built a transportable wooden theatre.
With this stage he continued travelling to 's-Hertogenbosch, Utrecht, Kleve, Nijmegen and finally again to The Hague where he was ruined by a local competitor.
He recruited a new troupe and settled in Münster, visiting Göttingen, Hanover, Bremen and other towns in the wider area.