Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn ( born September 8, 1933, London) is an English writer.
Life
During military service in the army Frayn was trained as a military interpreter in the Russian language. In 1954 he began his French and Russian studies at Emmanuel College at Cambridge University, but after a year of philosophy (moral sciences ). After graduating in 1957, he was a reporter and columnist for the Manchester Guardian ( 1957-62 ) and the Observer ( 1962-68 ). Since then he has worked as a freelance writer. He is a successful playwright and novelist.
Work
Frayn wrote, among other things, the farce Noises Off (1982 ), which was filmed in 1992 with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Appeared in 1998 Copenhagen, a play about a conversation between the two nuclear physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Copenhagen was a huge international success, received, among others, the Tony Award and the Prix Molière and solved on the theatrical circles, a historic debate on Heisenberg's role in the nuclear program of the Third Reich, the uranium project so called from.
Followed in 2003 with a piece about democracy Willy Brandt and the Guillaume affair for which Frayn to Copenhagen again with the Evening Standard Award and the Critics Circle Award. The German premiere took place in Berlin's Renaissance Theatre on May 6, 2004.
His most recent work had Afterline 2008 at London's National Theater premiere. The play about the theater director and actor Max Reinhardt learned on 18 March 2010 under the title Reinhardt in the Old Schauspielhaus Stuttgart 's German premiere.
It is known Michael Frayn beyond for his Chekhov translations into English. Michael Frayn is married in second marriage with the English literary critic Claire Tomalin.
Honors
- 2004: Order of Merit for his treatment of significant events of German history within his oeuvre
Works
Novels
- Two British in Moscow. German by Renate Sommer; G. B. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
- Towards the end of the morning. ger of Miriam Mandelkow; Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-908777-30-5.
- How does she do it all belong?. German by Sabine Hübner; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-498-02066-8.
- Sun landing. ger of Irmela Erckenbrecht; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-498-02072-2.
- Now you know it. German by Sabine Hübner; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-13434-9.
- The Lost Picture. German by Matthias Fienbork; Hanser, Munich, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-446-19778-8.
- The espionage game. German by Matthias Fienbork; Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-446-20455-5.
- Welcome to Skios. ger by Anette Grube; Hanser, Munich, Vienna, 2012, ISBN 978-3446239760.
Stage plays
(DSE = German -language premiere )
- Alphabetical order, dt by Ursula songs Forest and Christian Ferber
- All in a blue moon, German by Michael Raab, DSE: Renaissance Theater Berlin, December 2, 2006
- Clouds, German by Ursula Lyn
- The creator, German by Heinz Fischer and Ursula Lyn
- The Rat Race, German by Ursula Lyn
- Benefactor, German by Ursula Lyn and Nina Adler
- Wild honey, German by Ursula Lyn and Andrew Pegler
- Here, dt by Ursula Lyn and Saskia Wesnigk
- Ping Pong, German by Ursula Lyn
- Copenhagen, Germany by Inge Greiffenhagen and Bettina von Leoprechting, DSE: Grillo- Theater in Essen, June 5, 1999
- Democracy, dt by Michael Raab; DSE: Renaissance Theater Berlin in May 2004
- Reinhardt, German by Michael Raab
Screenplay
Philosophy
Journalism
Non-fiction
- 2000 (with David Burke) Celia 's Secret: An Investigation. Celia's Secret: The Copenhagen papers. German Anna Leube; Hanser, Munich, Vienna, 2001. ISBN 3-446-19907-1.