Microsoft Store
 

Tankred Dorst


 

Tankred Dorst (born December 12, 1925) is a German playwright and storyteller.

Major works

  • "Die Kurve", (1960)
  • "Toller", (1968)
  • "Rotmord", (1969, television film adaptation of "Toller" produced in collaboration with Peter Zadek)
  • "Sand", (1971, television film directed by Peter Palitzsch)
  • "Eiszeit", (1973)
  • "Die Villa", (1976)
  • "Klaras Mutter", (1978, television film adaptation directed by Tankred Dorst)
  • "Mosch", (1980, television film adaptation directed by Tankred Dorst)
  • "Merlin oder das wüste Land", (1981)
  • "Eisenhans", (1982, movie adaptation directed by Tankred Dorst)
  • "Parzival", (1987)
  • "Korbes", (1988)
  • "Karlos", (1990)
  • "Herr Paul", (1994)
  • "Die Legende vom armen Heinrich", (1997)
  • "Kupsch", (2001, monologue)
  • "Die Freude am Leben", (2001)
  • "Othoon", (2002)
  • A variety of Tankred Dorst plays have been translated into English, the last being his adaptation of Unamuno's NOTHING LESS THAN A MAN, which he called FERNANDO KRAPP WROTE ME THIS LETTER . The American version premiered in 1996 in Seattle to near uniform, typically Seattleish stupid reviews, except for a visiting critic from New York who had a brief stint at the Seattle Post Intelligencer. It is published in Carl Weber's GERMAN DRAMA CONTMPORARY, Johns Hopkins University Press.

    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~