People from the District of Sonneberg - Tankred Dorst, Freddy Breck, Mark Kirchner, Reinhard He (Paperback)

Chapters: Tankred Dorst, Freddy Breck, Mark Kirchner, Reinhard He . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tankred Dorst (born December 19, 1925 in Sonneberg, Thuringia) is a German playwright and storyteller. Tankred Dorst currently lives and works in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations are inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett. His monumental drama Merlin oder das w ste Land, which was premiered in 1981 in D sseldorf, has been compared to Goethe's Faust. Some critics see it as the first major drama of the 1980s. In his tribute to Tankred Dorst on the occasion of the conferment of the Georg B chner Prize in 1990, Georg Hensel remarked, that Dorst's plays all have a direct connection to the present: Tankred Dorst first directed the Ring of the Nibelung in Bayreuth in 2006. Tankred Dorst was born in Sonneberg/Thuringia. Conscripted into the German army as a pupil at the age of 17, he was soon captured and incacerated as a prisoner of war. Until 1947 he remained in British and American hands. By the time he was released from war captivity his birthplace had become part of the Soviet sector of Germany. He met his family in West Germany and completed his schooling. In 1950 he was going to study German literature, art history and theatre in Bamberg and Munich. Together with composer Wilhelm Killmayer he founded the marionette theatre Das kleine Spiel, for which he wrote his first plays. After breaking off his studies, he worked in various capacities in film, radio and publishing houses. His first major plays were performed in 1960 in L beck, Mannheim and Heidelberg. From this time on till today his plays have been performed in the whole world. Tankred Dorst's work has been recognized w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=83332