Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett (1973)

Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934 in Leeds , England ) is a British writer, playwright , director , actor and screenwriter .

Life

Alan Bennett, son of a butcher , was able to study history at Exeter College on a scholarship . He received an assistant professorship at Magdalen College, Oxford (1960-62). The success of the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe , for which he was active as a writer and actor, enabled him to move to the theater.

In his first drama, Forty Years On (1968), the framework of which has students put on a historical play, Bennett targets young British history, particularly the Bloomsbury Group and TE Lawrence . In Kafka's Dick (1986) he deals with Franz Kafka , in 102 Boulevard Haussmann (1990) with Marcel Proust and in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) with Joe Orton . For his work Talking Heads (1988) he received the Hawthornden Prize in 1989 .

Bennett's work for television is characterized by careful observation of human weaknesses. His The Madness of George III (1991) was 1,995 al s King George - A Madness filmed. Bennett was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Adapted Screenplay in 1995 . It also won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Screenplay for the third time after 1986 and 1988 . The same goes for the London Critics' Circle Film Award . Bennett published his memoir with Untold Stories in 2005 after developing cancer .

Bennett lives in London with his partner Rupert Thomas.

Works (selection)

  • 1962: Beyond the Fringe (stage revue)
  • 1968: Forty Years On (play)
  • 1971: Getting On (play)
  • 1973: Habeas Corpus (play)
  • 1977: The Old Country (play)
  • 1980: Enjoy (play)
  • 1982: An Englishman Abroad (TV screenplay)
  • 1985: The Writer in Disguise (collection of plays)
  • 1986: Kafka's Dick (play)
    • Kafkas Franz , German by Nikolaus Hansen . Rowohlt-Theaterverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990
  • 1988: Talking Heads (six television monologues)
    • A crack in the cup , by Andrew Jenkins. Rowohlt-Theaterverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995.
    • New edition: A cracker under the sofa , German by Ingo Herzke . Wagenbach, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8031-1268-2 .
  • 1988: Single Spies (play)
  • 1990: 102 Boulevard Haussmann (TV script)
  • 1990: The Lady in the Van (short story)
    • The lady in the delivery van (story), German by Ingo Herzke. Wagenbach, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8031-1225-7 .
    • The Lady in the Van (1999; play), German by Christiane Fenge. Rowohlt-Theaterverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2003.
  • 1992: The Madness of George III (play)
    • Was, Was or the illness of King George III , German of Peter and John von Düffel . Rowohlt-Theaterverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001.
  • 1994: Writing Home (autobiographical essays)
  • 1998: Talking Heads 2 (six television monologues)
    • Miss Fozzard finds her feet , German by Ingo Herzke. Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-8031-1276-1 .
  • 1999: Father! Father! Burning Bright (narration)
    • Father's days - relationship stories , German by Ingo Herzke. Wagenbach, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-8031-1243-5 .
  • 2000: The Laying on of Hands (short stories)
    • The laying on of hands (short novel), German by Ingo Herzke. Wagenbach Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8031-1231-1 .
  • 2001: The Clothes They Stood Up In (novella)
    • Every year again - a little story from Brigitte Heinrich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-14655-0 .
    • New edition: Cosi fan tutte , same translation. Wagenbach, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-1213-3 .
  • 2004: The History Boys (play);
  • 2005: Untold Stories (autobiographical and essays)
  • 2007: The Uncommon Reader (short story)
  • 2009: The Habit of Art (play)
  • 2009: A Life Like Other People's (autobiography)
    • Live like other people . Wagenbach, Berlin 2014
  • 2011: Smut: two unseemly stories ( short stories )
    • Schweinkram, two unseemly stories , German by Ingo Herzke. Wagenbach, Berlin 2012
  • 2012: People (play)
  • 2016: Keeping On Keeping On .
    • Alan Bennett goes to the museum . Translation of Ingo Herzke. Wagenbach, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-8031-1326-9 [Essays from: Untold Stories , Writing Home and Keeping on Keeping on ]

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Phyllis Hartnoll, Peter Found (Eds.): Bennett, Alan. In: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theater. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996.
  • Alexander Games: Backing into the Limelight: A Biography of Alan Bennett , London: Review, 2002, ISBN 0-7472-6661-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Independent: Alan Bennett kept his suffering to himself 'because cancer, like any other illness, is a bore' ( Memento of November 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bennett, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British novelist, playwright, actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , England, UK