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Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".
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Fritz Muliar, born as Friedrich Ludwig Stand, was an Austrian actor who, due to his huge popularity, is often referred to by his countrymen as Volksschauspieler.
The Burgtheater, originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the National Theater of Austria in Vienna. It is the most important German language theater and one of the most important theaters in the world. The Burgtheater was opened in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the Viennese population; its theater company has created a traditional style and speech typical of Burgtheater performances.
The Piano Teacher is a novel by Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1983 by Rowohlt Verlag. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, it was the first of Jelinek's novels to be translated into English.
Illness or Modern Women is a play by the Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It was published in 1984 in the avant-garde journal manuscripte of Graz and premiered on the stage of the Schauspielhaus Bonn on February 12, 1987, directed by Hans Hollmann. The play was published in book form by Prometh Verlag in 1987 with an afterword by Regine Friedrich. The title "parodically conflates women with illness." The play is based on an earlier, shorter radio play by Jelinek called Erziehung eines Vampirs, which appeared in 1986 on Süddeutscher Rundfunk.
Lust is a novel by Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek. Originally published in German in 1989, it was translated into English in 1992 by Michael Hulse.
Bambiland is a play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature. The play caused a sensation because of its protest against the Guantanamo Bay prison. In typical Jelinek style, there are many acts of violence, both physical and sexual. Both the text of the play and its English translation by Lilian Friedberg are available on Jelinek's website.
Nicolas Stemann is a German theatre director. He is best known for directing the 2002 stage production of Hamlet at Schauspiel Hannover, a theatre in Hanover.
Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte; oder Stützen der Gesellschaften is a play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It was first published in 1979 and premiered in October that year, directed by Kurt-Josef Schildknecht, in Graz.
Clara S, musikalische Tragödie is a play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It was first published in 1982. The play depicts a fictional meeting in 1929 between nineteenth-century German composer Clara Schumann and Gabrielle D'Annunzio, a late nineteenth/early twentieth century Italian author.
Ein Sportstück is a play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It was first published in 1998. The premiere took place on 23 January 1998 at the Burgtheater in Vienna under the auspices of the German director Einar Schleef. The English language premiere, under the title Sports Play, translated by Penny Black with Karen Jürs-Munby, took place on 11 July 2012 at Live at LICA in Lancaster and toured the UK to coincide with London 2012 Olympics. It was directed by Vanda Butkovic and brought to the UK an essential figure of contemporary cultural canon.
Das Schweigen (Silence) is a play by the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It premiered in 2000 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg, Germany. It was published that year in a combined volume with two other Jelinek plays, Das Lebewohl and Der Tod und das Mädchen II. All three plays referenced German classical music composers. In Das Schweigen, a woman attempts to write about the composer Robert Schumann.
Der Tod und das Mädchen II is a play by the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It premiered in Hanover, Germany, in 2000. It was published that year in a combined volume with two other Jelinek plays, Das Lebewohl and Das Schweigen (Silence). All three plays referenced German classical music composers.
Das Werk is a play by the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek.
Einar Schleef (17 January 1944 – 21 July 2001) was a German dramatist, director, set designer, writer, painter, photographer, and actor.
Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis, founded in 1976, is one of the leading theater awards in Germany. It is awarded by an open jury of theater professionals, critics and playwrights who watch a short list of productions during the Stücke festival; the productions are not the full play but a piece, often the first act. The short list is chosen by a jury from plays that were first performed in Germany during the prior season. The winner receives €15,000.
The Children of the Dead is a novel by Elfriede Jelinek, first published in 1995 by Rowohlt Verlag. It is commonly regarded as her magnum opus. The novel won the Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen in 1996. The prologue and epilogue were translated into English by Louise E. Stoehr in 1998, while a full English translation by Gitta Honegger is forthcoming in 2021.
Women as Lovers is a novel by Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek that details the lives of the characters Brigitte and Paula, as the two women transition from dreams of the future, to life with a husband and children. In the novel, Brigitte succeeds in "snagging the social and economic commodity Heinz, which directly results in an upgrading of her socioeconomic status." But she pays for it with her body and the loss of her private autonomy. Paula's existence, on the other hand, is "destroyed by her belief in the illusion of love."
Michael Simon is a German theatre director, opera director and scenic designer.
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