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Ein Sportstück
''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 Einar Schleef (17 January 1944 – 21 July 2001) was a German dramatist, director, set designer, writer, painter, photographer, and actor. Life Schleef was born and raised in Sangerhausen, a small town in the South East of Germany. An industria .... 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 (Nuffield Theatre) 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. The play examines society's obsession with the publicly waged battle of sports. Bibliography *Elfriede Jelinek: ''Ein Sportstück''. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrians
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Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature 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". Next to Peter Handke and Botho Strauss she is considered to be the most important living playwright of the German language. Biography Elfriede Jelinek was born on 20 October 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, the daughter of Olga Ilona (''née'' Buchner), a personnel director, and Friedrich Jelinek. She was raised in Vienna by her Romanian-German Catholic mother and a non-observant Czech Jewish father (whose surname "Jelinek" means "little deer" in Czech). Her mother came from a bourgeois background, while her father was a working-class socialist. Her father was a chemist, who managed to avoid persecut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgtheater
The Burgtheater (literally:"Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater"), 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 theatres in the world. aeiou-Burgtheater "Burgtheater" (history) ''Encyclopedia of Austria'', Aeiou Project, 1999 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. History The original Burgtheater was set up in a |
Vienna
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Einar Schleef
Einar Schleef (17 January 1944 – 21 July 2001) was a German dramatist, director, set designer, writer, painter, photographer, and actor. Life Schleef was born and raised in Sangerhausen, a small town in the South East of Germany. An industrial landscape shaped by mining and surrounded by the mythical landscapes of Harz and Kyffhäuser. His father Wilhelm Schleef was an architect, his mother Gertrud Schleef worked as a seamstress. He had one sibling, Hans Schleef. Career Einar Schleef started to train as a painter while he was still in school. He attended a socialist painting circle led by Wilhelm Schmied from 1958 onwards. In 1964 he started a degree in fine arts at the arts academy in Berlin Weißensee. After being expelled in 1965 Schleef switched to set design two years later and finished with a bachelor's degree in 1973. From 1972–1975 he worked mainly for the Berliner Ensemble with its artistic director Ruth Berghaus. He co-directed three productions with B.K. Trag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plays By Elfriede Jelinek
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