Franz Xaver Kroetz

Franz Xaver Kroetz (born February 25, 1946 in Munich) He is a German writer and playwright. He has also worked as a film director.

Life

Kroetz attended an acting school in Munich and the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar (acting and directing department of the University of Vienna). He worked as a day-laborer and was active in the German political party DKP, Germany Communist Party, from 1971 to 1980.

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He became famous when in 1971 the premiere of his plays "Heimarbeit" (Home-work) and "Hartnäckig" (Persistent) were disrupted by neo-fascists. His plays in the 1970's protrayed people who had been rendered speechless by their own social misery. In the pplay "Das Nest" (The Nest), the protagonist was a truck driver. His boss ordered him to dump toxic waste into a lake, thus soiling his "nest."

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On March 5 1992, Kroetz married the actress Marie-Theres Relin. They have three children and live in Altenmarkt in Chiemgau.

Related Topics:
March 5 - 1992 - Marie-Theres Relin - Chiemgau

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