Alf Poss

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Alf Poss (born August 2, 1936 in Ulm , † January 7, 2003 in Munich ) was a German playwright and writer .

Life

Poss first studied philosophy at New York University in 1957/1958 , then from 1959 to 1963 journalism at the Ulm School of Design . In 1964 he took part in the literary colloquium under the direction of Walter Höllerer in Berlin ;; The Suhrkamp Dramatic Scholarship followed in 1970. After a stay as a student at the Deutsche Akademie in the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1972 and 1973, Poss was an Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa in the USA in 1975 .

Poss wrote plays, prose, radio plays, and poetry. His first play, Two Chickens Are Slaughtered , was published by Suhrkamp Verlag before the planned world premiere (late autumn 1969, Bühnen der Stadt Essen , staged by Claus Leininger) ; Due to the planned slaughter of two chickens on the stage, a scandal ensued, as a result of which, in addition to Essen, the Braunschweig State Theater and the Young Theater in Göttingen shied away from the performance of the play, so that the first performance was not performed until 1971 at Experimenta 4 in Frankfurt am Main took place through the Erlangen student theater. A production by the Werkstattbühne in Würzburg also attracted attention in 2002 after protests by animal rights activists .

The world premiere of his second play, the anti-car game How a Car Works , also turned out to be problematic; actors from the stages in Kassel and Ulm refused to participate in the production of the play.

Poss continued to translate George Bernard Shaw's play Die Millionärin into German in 1991 and devoted himself to writing poetry in his adopted country of Morocco .

Works (selection)

  • Two chickens are slaughtered (play, 1969)
  • One speaker and two speakers (radio play, 1969)
  • Floated Out (Action Prose, 1970)
  • How a car worked (play, 1972; appeared in Spectaculum 15)
  • No visit from Samuel (dialogue piece, 1979)
  • Visit from London (radio play; awarded by the German Academy of Performing Arts in Bensheim as radio play of the month May 1979)
  • View over the lake (radio play, 1981)
  • All the light and dark (radio play, 1983)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography in Poss, Alf: Two chickens are slaughtered , Suhrkamp 1969
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Walther Killy et al., Killy Literature Lexicon: Authors and Works of the German-Speaking Cultural Area Volume 9 (Os – Roq), p. 306, Walter de Gruyter
  3. ↑ The Villa Massimo scholarship holders from 1913 to 2011 ( memento from April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Slaughter prohibited , Der SPIEGEL 45/1969, p. 224
  5. ↑ a b Der SPIEGEL 38/1971 , p. 150
  6. ↑ Hoppe, Ralf: Dada, Voodoo, naked nuns , Der SPIEGEL 47/2002, p. 203
personal data
SURNAME Poss, Alf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2003
Place of death Munich