Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee (* March 12, 1928 in Washington, DC) is an American writer.

Life

Albee was adopted two weeks after his birth by the operator of a vaudeville theater and grew so on in the colorful atmosphere of the music-hall Angels. With the writing of plays he began, however, only when he was about 30 years old. At 20 he went to New York City from Greenwich Village and got by with odd jobs.

He already had great success with his first novel The Zoo Story. Written in 1958 and influenced by Samuel Beckett, it can be among the first American pieces of theater of the absurd. As in the United States first nobody wanted to play the piece, the premiere took place on September 28, 1959 at the Schiller Theater in West Berlin in the German translation Pinkas Braun. The first performance in the United States followed on 14 January 1960 at Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village, and brought it to more than 500 performances. With Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Which premiered on October 13, 1962 in New York at the Billy Rose Theater, located Albee established then on Broadway. It was the most played piece of Albee and 1966 with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton also filmed.

Albee was awarded all the major prizes awarded in the United States for literature and theater, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award. In Vienna, he was awarded the Nestroy Theatre Prize. Translator of his works into German from 1959 to Pinkas Braun. Since the 1980s, including translations of Alissa Walser Martin Walser and developed.

Works

Stage plays

U = premiere; DSE = German -language premiere

  • The Death of Bessie Smith, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: April 21, 1960 Castle Park Theater Berlin
  • The sandbox, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: December 20, 1966 Stadttheater Bremerhaven
  • The American dream, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: October 7, 1961 Schiller Theater Berlin
  • Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ger of Pinkas Braun, DSE: October 13, 1963 Castle Park Theater Berlin
  • The Ballad of the Sad Café, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: December 2, 1964, the Munich Chamber Games
  • Tiny Alice, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: February 3, 1966, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
  • Tiny Alice, translation by Alissa and Martin Walser, DSE: open
  • Malcolm, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: November 26, 1969, Wurttemberg State Theatre, Esslingen
  • Delicate balance, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: April 26, 1967, the Munich Chamber Games, directed by August Everding
  • Delicate Balance, translation by Alissa and Martin Walser, DSE: open
  • Everything in the garden, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: February 5, 1969, Munich Studio Theater, directed by Hans Schweikart
  • Everything in the Garden, translation by Alissa and Martin Walser, DSE: open
  • Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: January 19, 1969, the Munich Chamber Games
  • All over, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: January 6, 1972, the Munich Chamber Games
  • Seeskapade, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: April 13, 1974, Burgtheater Vienna
  • Beach runners, translation by Alissa and Martin Walser, DSE: November 28, 1992 Renaissance Theater, Berlin, Director: Gerhard Klingenberg
  • Listening. A chamber piece
  • Game species. A Vaudeville
  • The Lady of thing Ville, dt Pinkas Braun, DSE: May 15, 1982 Room Theater Heidelberg, Director: Ute Richter
  • Lolita. Piece in 2 acts. A processing of the novel by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The man who had three arms, DSE: April 16, 1985, Torturmtheater summer Hausen, directed by Veit Relin
  • Marriage theater, dt of Alissa and Martin Walser, DSE: open
  • Three Tall Women, dt of Alissa and Martin Walser, DSE: March 30, 1995 Stadttheater Würzburg
  • The game lost their baby, dt of Alissa and Martin Walser, DSE: November 20, 1999 the Burgtheater in Vienna, directed by Holger Berg
  • The Goat or Who is Sylvia, dt of Alissa and Martin Walser, DSE: January 10, 2004, Burgtheater, Vienna, directed by Andrea Breth

Essays

  • Stretching My Mind. Essays 1960-2005, 2005

Films

Radio plays

A number of Albee 's plays were also broadcast on the German-speaking radio play versions, as The Death of Bessie Smith, The Zoo Story, marriage Theater, Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and listening.

Musical settings

  • William Flanagan (1923-1969): Song for a Winter Child for voice and piano (1964 )
  • William Flanagan: The Lady of Tearful Regret for coloratura soprano, baritone, flute, clarinet, piano and string quartet ( ed. 1977)
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