Tankred Dorst
Tankred Dorst | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 December 1925 |
| Died | 1 June 2017(aged 91) Berlin |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, storyteller |
| Awards | Georg Büchner Prize |
Tankred Dorst(19 December 1925 – 1 June 2017) was a Germanplaywrightandstoryteller.
Dorst lived and worked inMunich.[1]His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations were inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works ofIonesco,GiraudouxandBeckett.His monumental dramaMerlin oder das wüste Land,which was premiered in 1981 inDüsseldorf,has been compared toGoethe'sFaust.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 theGeorg Büchner Prizein 1990,Georg Henselremarked that Dorst's plays all have a direct connection to the present: "For 30 years Dorst's plays have responded to the great transformations. He has always been a companion to the times."
Dorst first directed theRing of the NibelunginBayreuthin 2006.
Biography
[edit]Tankred Dorst was born inOberlindinThuringia,Germany.[2]
Conscripted into the German army as a pupil at the age of 17, he was soon captured and incarcerated as aprisoner of war.[2]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 began studying German literature, art history and theatre inBambergand Munich.[3][4]Through the 1950s he wrote his first plays for themarionettetheatreDas Kleine Spiel,(some together with composerWilhelm Killmayer). After breaking off his studies, he worked in various capacities in theatre, film, radio and publishing houses.
His first major plays were performed in 1960 inLübeck,MannheimandHeidelberg.Since then, his plays have been performed in the whole world. Dorst's work has been recognized with many prizes and distinctions, including theGerhart HauptmannPrize (1964), Prize of the City ofFlorence(1970),Literature Prize of the Bayerische Akademie der Künste(1983),Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis(1989),Georg Büchner Prize(1990),E.T.A. HoffmannPrize (1996) and the city ofZürich'sMax Frisch Prize(1998). In 2006, he was awarded theSamuel Bogumil LindePrize. He was awarded theEuropean Prize for Literature(2008). Dorst held visiting professorships at universities in Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
Dorst died on 1 June 2017 in Berlin.[2]
Major works
[edit]- Die Kurve(1960)
- Toller(1968)
- Rotmord(1969, television film adaptation ofTollerproduced in collaboration withPeter Zadek)
- Sand(1971, television film directed byPeter Palitzsch)
- Eiszeit(1973)
- Die Villa(1976)
- Klaras Mutter(1978, television film )
- Mosch(1980, television film adaptation)
- Merlin oder das wüste Land(1981)
- Strange Fruits(1982, movie adaptation)
- Parzival(1987)
- Ich Feuerbach(1987)
- Korbes(1988)
- Karlos(1990)
- Herr Paul(1994)
- Die Legende vom armen Heinrich(1997)
- Kupsch(2001, monologue)
- Die Freude am Leben(2001)
- Othoon(2002)
References
[edit]- ^Dultz, Sabine (2 June 2017)."Tankred Dorst: Der selbstbewusst Bescheidene".Merkur(in German). Munich.Retrieved16 October2019.
- ^abc"Tankred Dorst ist tot".Die Zeit(in German). Hamburg. 1 June 2017.Retrieved16 October2019.
- ^"Tankred Dorst ist tot".Der Spiegel(in German). Hamburg. dpa. 1 June 2017.Retrieved24 October2019.
- ^Rinke, Moritz (2 June 2017)."Man kann nicht genug vor diesem Theatermann knien".Die Welt(in German). Berlin.Retrieved24 October2019.
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- 1925 births
- 2017 deaths
- People from Sonneberg
- German television writers
- Male television writers
- Storytellers
- German male screenwriters
- German male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century German male writers
- 21st-century German dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century German male writers
- German-language writers
- Members of the German Academy for Language and Literature
- German Army personnel of World War II
- German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United Kingdom
- German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States
- Schiller Memorial Prize winners
- Georg Büchner Prize winners