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Groß Und Klein
''Big and Little'' () is a 1978 play by German writer Botho Strauß. It is a station drama in ten scenes and follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world . The play has the subtitle ''Scenes'' (''Szenen'') and has also been performed in English as ''Big and Small''. It premiered on 8 December 1978 at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in West Berlin, directed by Peter Stein (director), Peter Stein and starring Edith Clever. It was broadcast as a German television play in 1980. Other TV versions include a 1995 Portuguese language adaptation that was cut to 1 hour and 20 minutes, and a 1998 episode of Poland's Teatr Telewizji, which starred Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska as Lotte, and similarly trimmed the runtime to 1 hour 25 minute. The play has also been titled ''Great and Small'', as was the case for a 1983 Theatre of the United Kingdom, British production which starr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botho Strauß
Botho Strauss (; written as Botho Strauß) (born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist, and essayist. Early life His father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, Strauss studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Cologne and Munich. He never finished his dissertation on ''Thomas Mann und das Theater''. During his studies, he worked as an extra at the Munich Kammerspiele. Career From 1967 to 1970, he was a critic and editorial journalist for the journal '':de:Theater heute, Theater heute'' (''Theater Today''). Between 1970 and 1975, he worked as a Dramaturge, dramaturgical assistant to Peter Stein (director), Peter Stein at the West Berlin :de:Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer, Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer. After his first attempt as a writer, a Maxim Gorky, Gorky film adaptation, he decided to work as a writer. Strauss had his first breakthrough as a dramatist with the 1977 ''Trilogie des Wiedersehens'', five years after the publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |