Minetti (drama)
Minetti is a play by Thomas Bernhard . The premiere was in 1976 at the Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart with Bernhard Minetti in the title role and directed by Claus Peymann .
Preliminary remark
In the 1970s, Bernhard Minetti played the leading roles in world premieres of Thomas Bernhard plays directed by Claus Peymann in Stuttgart and Bochum . Bernhard dedicated his play about an artist in old age to the actor with the name Minetti.
Framework story
Minetti, an actor who has not played the role of King Lear for 30 years, travels to Ostend to discuss a possible engagement with the Flensburg theater director . He is sitting in the hotel lobby, waiting for the director, who lets him sit and does not appear. He played Lear in a mask made by the Belgian artist James Ensor , whom he met in the same hotel. Since then he has always carried the mask with him and puts it on at the end. At the end, Minetti sits snowed in on a bench on the beach, which is somewhat reminiscent of the lyre man in the winter journey .
Remarks
Ruth Klüger sees Minetti as Minetti's conversation with a girl as a reference to Lear's daughters. While Bernhard Minetti himself repeatedly states in the play that he refused classical literature , here Bernhard makes a strong reference to William Shakespeare .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruth Klüger: An old man is always a king Lear - Old people in poetry , Viennese lectures, lecture May 21, 2003, Picus Vienna 2004, page 34f, ISBN 3-85452-504-4 .