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.

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