Arthur Adamov

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Arthur Adamov

Arthur Adamov (born August 23, 1908 in Kislowodsk , Russian Empire , † March 15, 1970 in Paris ) was a French translator , writer and playwright of Armenian origin. Alongside Eugène Ionesco , Samuel Beckett and Georges Schehadé, he is considered one of the most important authors of the theater of the absurd .

Life

Adamov was born in Russia and, like many of his contemporaries, learned French as a first foreign language. In 1914 his family left Russia, moved to Geneva (1914–1922) and Mainz , before finally settling in Paris in 1924. Inspired by surrealists he met there, Adamov published the magazine Discontinuité . His father, a notorious gambler, committed suicide in 1933. Adamov's closeness to Marxism and his involvement on the republican side during the Spanish Civil War led to almost one year imprisonment in a concentration camp near Argelès-sur-Mer in 1941 .

After the end of World War II , he began creating dramas and translating works, etc. a. by Maxim Gorki , Anton Chekhov and Georg Büchner . While Adamov brought the senselessness and uniformity of human existence to the fore in his early work, at the end of the 1950s he approached the socially critical drama Bertolt Brecht more and more . In 1960 he signed the 121 Manifesto against the Algerian War . In addition, he wrote prose works such as those that appeared shortly before his suicide in the text collection Je… Ils… . He is one of the few well-known authors who gave a literary voice to subjects that were outlawed by society at the time, such as masochism , which he regarded as “immunization against death”. B. with the story Fin Août .

The renowned theater director Klaus Michael Grüber premiered his grotesque against the Vietnam War , Off Limits, at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in 1972 , but the author never lived to see it. Arthur Adamov died in March 1970, exhausted from life by a serious illness , from an overdose of sleeping pills .

Works

  • La Parody (1947).
  • L'Invasion (1949, German: Invasion , translator E. de Bary).
  • La Grande et la Petite Manœuvre (1950, German: roll call ).
  • Tous contre tous (1953, German: all against all , transl .: Elmar Tophoven ).
  • Le Professeur Taranne (1953, German: Professor Taranne ).
  • Le Ping Pong (1955, German: Ping-Pong , transl .: Elmar Tophoven).
  • Comme nous avons été (1956).
  • Paolo Paoli (1957, transl .: Pierre Aron).
  • La Politique des restes (1962).
  • La Sainte Europe (1965).
  • M. le Modéré (1967).
  • L'Homme et l'Enfant (1968), autobiography .
  • Off Limits (1968).
  • Je ... Ils ... (1969).
  • Translation by Rainer Maria Rilke : Le Livre de la pauvreté et de la mort ( The Book of Hours ) 1941, 1947, 1982 and Poèmes 2005 ISBN 2-84597-141-9 .

literature

  • Roland Barthes : "Adamov and the language." In: Myths of everyday life . Translated from the French by Horst Brühmann. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-518-41969-2 , pp. 114-117.
  • Martin Esslin : The theater of the absurd . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1965, ISBN 3-499-55414-3 .
  • Marianne Kesting : Panorama of contemporary theater. 58 literary portraits. Revised and expanded new edition. R. Piper, Munich 1969, pp. 125-130.
  • Robert Abirached, Ernstpeter Ruhe, Richard Schwaderer, Lectures d'Adamov. Actes du colloque international Würzburg 1981, Tübingen, G. Narr, Paris, éditions J.-M. Place, 1983.
  • Knaur's great actor , Droemer Knaur, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-426-26225-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Absurdism . Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  2. ^ "Calendar sheet" in Deutschlandradio Kultur on August 23, 2008: Eva Pfister: From loneliness and alienation. The playwright Arthur Adamov was born 100 years ago .