Botho Strauß

Botho Strauss ( born December 2, 1944 in Naumburg ) is a German author and playwright. He is one of the most successful and most frequently performed contemporary playwrights on the German stage.

Life

Botho Strauss studied after attending school in Remscheid and in Bad Ems few semesters German literature, theater history and sociology in Cologne and Munich, studying, however, broke not finish off. Between 1967 and 1970 he was a journalist at the magazine Theater heute. Then he was on the stage at the Hall 's shores until 1975 dramaturge. He then established himself as a freelance writer.

His first works were well received by critics. So Marcel Reich-Ranicki wrote on 10 August 1977 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: " For what he can already testament to talent. What he 's missing can be learned. This man is a great hope of our literature. Maybe will come of it, the novel of his generation. "

A controversial discussion has triggered the young man (1984 ) in the literature to be novel. In 1985 he published his first poem longer (75 pages): This memory of one who was just a day as a guest. It touches, caught in a variety of verse forms and poetic meters, all forms of social interaction of people. It is the attempt of a lyrical ego, to define its position again.

Besides plays Strauss has written short stories and books of essays and aphorisms. In it, he also argues with scientific and philosophical questions: questions of technology and evolution. So in Beginninglessness (1992). Since the late 1980s, he fell because of its democracy and civilization critical essays - especially intumescent goat song, published in 1993 in the mirror - under criticism. Phrases like, " that a nation wants to maintain his moral law against others and it is ready to bring blood sacrifice that we no longer understand and keep it in our liberal- libertarian selfishness is wrong and reprehensible ," were among other things criticized by Ignatz Bubis. Later Bubis relativized his criticism. The essay was taken from Heimo Schwilk and Ulrich Schacht as pulse and base to create the self-confident nation along with 25 other authors their programmatic anthology.

Praise and criticism in 2004 - published in the German and international press - on the occasion of his 60th birthday. In February 2006, Strauss published: the conflict ( in the mirror ). 2005/2006 was his newest piece The desecration premiered in Paris and Berlin. 2006 appears on its calendar 41 stories ( Mikado ) in Hanser Verlag. Five calendar stories are published with eight chalk drawings by Neo Rauch in publishing Kleinheinrich (Münster) in a limited edition ( 180 copies ) entitled The Mediator addition. 2007 his first short story: The Clumsy.

In his essay: The painter breaks the spell (Der Spiegel, 30/ 2008) he deals with the " painted over photos " by Gerhard Richter. Through the cooperation with Neo Rauch and the processing of " overpainted photos " by Gerhard Richter Strauss has based his work as a writer on contemporary painting. A sequel followed in 2009 in cooperation with Thomas Demand: For photographs of German history since 1945, issued by the visual artists in the New National Gallery in Berlin, provides Botho Strauss unpublished texts as captions.

In early April 2009 at the Bavarian State Theatre Strauss' new piece Lightweight game. Nine people a woman of Dieter Dorn premiered. These writes Gerhard Maier Stadel in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "The great women world theater. Premieres of works by B. S. These are the feasts of the theater. The light- taker Dorn is the congenial director - partner of the playwright Strauss, who takes the hardest easy, because it does not solve it, but keeps in suspense ... "

His works are published in numerous languages.

He is a member of the PEN center of Germany.

Botho Strauss currently lives in Berlin and in the Uckermark.

Works

  • The hypochondriac. In 1972.
  • Familiar faces, mixed feelings. In 1974.
  • Marlene's sister. In 1975.
  • Trilogy of reunion. In 1977.
  • The dedication. 1977, ISBN 3-423-10248-9.
  • Large and small. In 1978.
  • Rumor. 1980, ISBN 3-446-12990-1.
  • Kalldewey, farce. 1981, ISBN 3-423-10346-9.
  • Couples passersby. 1981, ISBN 3-423-10250-0.
  • The park. 1983 ( according to A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare).
  • The young man. 1984, ISBN 3-446-14134-0.
  • This memory of one who was just a day as a guest. Munich 1985.
  • The tourist guide. In 1986.
  • The piggy bank. In 1987.
  • No one else. In 1987.
  • Molière's Misanthrope. 1987 ( translation and paraphrase of the play by Molière ).
  • Attempt to think together aesthetic and political events. 1987, ISBN 3-88661-080-2.
  • Visitors. In 1988.
  • Seven doors. In 1988.
  • Congress. The chain of humiliations. In 1989.
  • About love. In 1989.
  • The time and the room. In 1989.
  • Final chorus. In 1991.
  • Angela's clothes. In 1991.
  • Beginninglessness. 1992, ISBN 3-423-12358-3.
  • The balance. In 1993.
  • Residential, dawning, lies. 1994, ISBN 3-446-17875-9.
  • Ithaca. Munich 1996.
  • The error of the copyist. 1997, ISBN 3-446-19029-5.
  • The kiss of oblivion. In 1998.
  • The like. In 1998.
  • Jeffers - Act I and II play. Hanser, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-19528-9.
  • The sign collector. 1999, ISBN 3-88661-217-1.
  • The particularity. 2000, ISBN 3-446-19886-5.
  • The fool and his wife this evening in Pancomedia. 2001, ISBN 3-423-13274-4.
  • The night with Alice, as Julia crept around the house. 2003, ISBN 3-446-20357-5.
  • The below will on tiptoe. 2004, ISBN 3-446-20491-1.
  • Desecration. 2005 (by Titus Andronicus. By William Shakespeare. )
  • The one and the other. 2005, ISBN 3-446-20620-5.
  • After the love begins her story. In: Theater of time. 09/ 2005.
  • Mikado. 2006, ISBN 3-446-20808-9.
  • Botho Strauss, Neo Rauch: The Mediator. 5 calendar stories with 8 chalk drawings, SE. numbered and signed edition of 180 copies. Kleinheinrich, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-930754-44-4.
  • The Clumsy. Consciousness novella. Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20917-6.
  • Girl with ornamental comb. Short story. Cornelsen.
  • From the stay. Hanser, 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23441-3.
  • The blind action. UA: March 2011, Burgtheater Vienna
  • Easy game. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-498-06409-9; UA: 2011, Residenz Theater Munich.
  • She / He, stories. Selected and edited by Thomas Hürlimann. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23865-7.
  • Lights of the gates. The Idiot and his time. Diederichs Verlag, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-424-35088-3.

Essays

  • The revolt against the secondary world. Afterword to George Steiner: From real presence. Hanser, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-446-23673-2.
  • Intumescent goat song. In: The mirror. No. 6, 1993, pp. 202-207 (February 8, 1993 online).
  • The letter is to breath. The genius of the work obsession: the director Peter Stein sixtieth birthday. In: FAZ. September 27, 1997
  • The last century of man. But what is coming is the network. Comments on Being and Time. In: FAZ. January 2, 1999 (detail)
  • Do you want the total engineering? In: The Time. December 20, 2000, No. 52
  • Orpheus of the underground garage. Botho Strauss about genes, love and the crimes of intimacy. In: The mirror. No. 9, 2004, pp. 164-166 (21 February 2004 online).
  • One must know how the sun works. In: FAZ. October 21, 2005
  • The conflict. In: The mirror. No. 7, 2006, pp. 120-121 ( 13 February 2006 online).
  • What remains of Handke? In: FAZ. June 1, 2006
  • The painter breaks the spell: about Gerhard Richter and his " overpainted photos ". In: The mirror. No. 30, 2008, pp. 144-145 ( July 21, 2008 online).
  • Heidegger's poems. In: FAZ. September 19, 2008
  • We lack a word, a single word. In: FAZ. August 23, 2011, (detail)
  • The Plurimi factor: Comments on the outsider. In: Der Spiegel 31/2013, pp. 108 ff

Awards

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