Death and the Maiden, a concept ultimately derived from the Medieval "Dance of Death", may refer to:
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.
Serpent's Tail is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Pete Ayrton. It is known for publishing works in translation, particularly European crime fiction, and is the British publisher of Elfriede Jelinek and Lionel Shriver. In January 2007 it was bought out by British publisher Profile Books.
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.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times is a novel by Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, published in 1980 by Rowohlt Verlag. It is Jelinek's fifth book. An English version, translated by Michael Hulse, was released in 1990 by Serpent's Tail. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1982.
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.
Burgtheater. Posse mit Gesang is a play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It was first published in 1985. The play depicts scenes from the lives of well-known actors at the Burgtheater in Vienna and reveals some of the actors as "shallow, petty tyrants." The play also make allegations about the theater's past collaboration with the Nazi regime.
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.
Das Werk is a play by the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek.
The Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck is the state theatre in Innsbruck, Austria, located near the historic Altstadt section of the city. The theatre is surrounded by Imperial Hofburg, the Hofgarten, and SOWI Faculty of the University of Innsbruck. The main theatre has about 800 seats and the studio theatre in the basement has around 250. Plays, operas, operettas, musicals and dance theatre are performed at the theatre.
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.
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.
