Werner Schwab (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Werner Schwab (February 4, 1958 - January 1, 1994) was an Austrian playwright and visual artist.From 1978 to 1982 he studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden K nste in Vienna. During the 1980s he worked as a sculptor and woodcutter.Schwab's first play Die Pr sidentinnen was produced at the Theater im K nstlerhaus in Vienna in 1990. Between then and his death four years later he wrote sixteen plays, eight of which were produced during his lifetime, making his career one of the briefest, most spectacular and most controversial in contemporary German-language theatre.Schwab's work tends to be extremely scatological, full of images of surreal violence and degradation, and his texts exploit the German language's capacity for neologism to a remarkable degree; they are also firmly within a native Austrian tradition of Black comedy. He is very difficult to translate, but amongst English-language dramatists, certain stylistic parallels might be drawn between his work and that of Steven Berkoff and Enda Walsh.