Death and the Maiden, a concept ultimately derived from the Medieval "Dance of Death", may refer to:
Olga Neuwirth is an Austrian composer.
The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig is a public university in Leipzig. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik , it is the oldest university school of music in Germany.
The Thalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1843 by Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger and named after the muse Thalia. Today, it is home to one of Germany's most famous ensembles and stages around 9 new plays per season. Current theatre manager is Joachim Lux, who in 2009/10 succeeded Ulrich Khuon.
Aribert Reimann is a German composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang the title role. His opera Medea after Grillparzer's play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. He was a professor of contemporary song in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for his life's work.
Todtnauberg is a German village in Black Forest (Schwarzwald) belonging to the municipality of Todtnau, in Baden-Württemberg. It is named after the homonym mount. It is famous because it is the place where the German philosopher Martin Heidegger had a chalet and wrote portions of his major work, Being and Time.
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.
Elfriede Gerstl was an Austrian author and Holocaust-survivor. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist.
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.
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.
Gisela Elsner was a German writer. She won the Prix Formentor in 1964 for her novel Die Riesenzwerge.
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 2019.
rein GOLD. ein bühnenessay is a prose work by Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, published in 2013 by Rowohlt Verlag. On 9 March 2014 its world premiere as an opera was staged by Staatsoper Berlin.
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Elfriede Brüning was a Communist German journalist and novelist. She also used the pseudonym Elke Klent.
Michael Simon is a German theatre director, opera director and scenic designer.
