Tomoyoshi Murayama

Tomoyoshi Murayama (Japanese村 山 知 义; * January 18, 1901, † 22 March 1977 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

During his study time, Murayama employed with Western philosophy and became a follower of Marxism. Great impression made ​​on him by the German avant-garde theater scene, whom he met during a stay 1922/24. Even since his youth, an avid painter, he admired in particular Wassily Kandinsky.

After his return to Japan, he founded an avant-garde group of artists who had great success with an experimental dance and theater evening at Tsukiji Shōgekijō. In 1924 he was commissioned a Shigeki version of Georg Kaiser's From morning to write to midnight. From 1926, he wrote his own plays and was one of the leading representatives of the proletarian drama. The piece Boryokudanki about the Chinese railroad strike of 1923 is one of the most important works of this genre.

In 1932, he was arrested. In 1933, he distanced himself from Marxism, but struggled during the war, to get the left theater movement alive. After 1945 he worked mainly as a theater director. 1974 awarded him the theater magazine Teatro occasion of his 400th drama production. In addition to plays, Murayama also wrote novels and children's literature.

Swell

  • Gabrielle H. Cody: The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Volume 2, Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-14424-7, pp. 940-41.
  • Harry D. Harootunian: Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan. Princeton University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-691-09548-6, pp. 101 ff
  • Hilaria Gössmann, Andreas Mrugalla: 11th German- Japanese Studies in Trier 1999 Volume 2, LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8258-4464-6, pp. 244-45. .
  • Author
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Drama
  • Novel, epic
  • Theater director
  • Japanese
  • Man
  • Born 1901
  • Died in 1977
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