Botho Strauss

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Botho Strauss portrayed by Oliver Mark , Uckermark 2007

Botho Strauss (born December 2, 1944 in Naumburg ) is a German writer and playwright . He is one of the most successful and most performed contemporary dramatists on German stages.

Life

Botho Strauss is the son of the chemist, pharmacist and medical journalist Eduard Strauss (1890–1971). After attending school in Remscheid and Bad Ems, he studied German literature , theater history and sociology in Cologne and Munich for a few semesters and dropped out without a degree. Between 1967 and 1970 he was a journalist for Theater heute magazine . He then worked as a dramaturge at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer until 1975 . He then established himself as a freelance writer.

Botho Strauss now lives in Berlin and in the Oberuckersee community in the Uckermark . With the radio author Manuela Reichart , he has son Simon , born in 1988 , theater editor in the features section of the FAZ and book author.

Works and reviews

Strauss' first works were received positively by the critics. Marcel Reich-Ranicki wrote in the FAZ on August 10, 1977 : “Because what he can already do shows talent. What is still missing can be learned. This man is a great hope in our literature. Perhaps the novel of his generation will come from him. "

His novel The Young Man (1984) sparked a controversial discussion in literary studies . In 1985 he published his first long poem (75 pages): This memory of someone who was only a guest for one day. It touches all forms of social coexistence between people in a variety of stanzas and meters . It is an attempt by a lyric self to redefine its position. In 1987 he received the Bavarian Literature Prize ( Jean-Paul Prize ) in recognition of the entire literary work.

In addition to plays, Strauss has written short stories and books with essays and aphorisms . In it he also deals with scientific and philosophical questions: with questions of technology and evolution; so in beginninglessness (1992). Since the late 1980s, he has come  under criticism because of his essays critical of democracy and civilization - above all, swelling Bocksgesang , published in the Spiegel in 1993 . Sentences such as "that a people wants to assert their moral law against others and is ready to make blood sacrifices for it, we no longer understand and consider it wrong and reprehensible in our liberal-libertarian self-centeredness", etc. a. sharply criticized by Ignatz Bubis . Bubis later qualified his criticism. Heimo Schwilk and Ulrich Schacht took the essay as an impulse and basis for creating their programmatic anthology, The Self-Confident Nation , together with 25 other authors .

Praise and criticism also appeared in 2004 - on the occasion of his 60th birthday - in the German and international press. In February 2006 published Strauss: The conflict (in Der Spiegel ). In 2005/2006 his play The Desecration was premiered in Paris and Berlin . In 2006 his 41 calendar stories ( Mikado ) were published by Hanser Verlag. Five calendar stories with eight chalk drawings by Neo Rauch were also published by Kleinheinrich (Münster) in a limited edition (180 copies) under the title Der Mittler . In 2007 his first novel was published: The Clumsy .

In his essay: The Painter Dissolves the Spell ( Der Spiegel , 30/2008), he deals with Gerhard Richter's “overpainted photos” . Through the cooperation with Neo Rauch and the processing of "overpainted photos" by Gerhard Richter, Strauss also related his literary work to contemporary painting. A continuation followed in 2009 in cooperation with Thomas Demand : Botho Strauss provided unpublished texts as captions for photographs of German history since 1945, which the visual artist is exhibiting in the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin .

At the beginning of April 2009, Strauss' new piece Leichtes Spiel was played at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel . Nine people of a woman premiered by Dieter Dorn . These writes Gerhard Stadelmaier in the FAZ : "The great women world theater. First performances of BS are the festivals of the theater. The light-hearted Dorn is the congenial directing partner of the playwright Strauss, who takes the hardest thing lightly because he doesn't solve it, but keeps it in suspension ... “The play Big and Small was in the lead role in 2011 in English translation by the Sydney Theater Company performed with Cate Blanchett ; the production came to Europe in 2012 and was shown at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, the Wiener Festwochen , the Théâtre de la Ville Paris and the London Barbican .

On October 2, 2015, Der Spiegel published the glossary The Last German by Strauss. In this, in view of the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 , he laments the imminent end of German intellectual history from his point of view. In an interview with Deutschlandradio , the former president of the PEN Center Germany, Johano Strasser , rated the gloss as a font consisting of small bows to right-wing, populist movements. Richard Kämmerlings saw in the text above all a provocation that evokes a spiritual, purely aesthetically defined tradition as a filtering catalyst for everything negative in national history and results in a dream of innocent Germany. The writer Martin Mosebach defended Strauss against these allegations and saw in the gloss less a defense against migrants than a complaint about the cultural state of Germany and a people who have become disproportionate and have no connection to their past. He accused the German feature pages of targeting Strauss.

His works are published in numerous languages. In spring 2018, Strauss moved from Hanser Verlag to Rowohlt . Strauss rarely gives interviews and does not appear in front of the camera. For a report on his 75th birthday in the 3sat broadcast Kulturzeit , he invited a television team to his house in the Uckermark.

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

Pieces

[WP = world premiere ; EA = first performance ]

  • Die Hypochondr (Premiere: November 22nd, 1972 Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , Director: Claus Peymann )
  • Das Sparschwein (translation and adaptation of the comedy by Eugène Labiche; premiere: August 1973 Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer , Berlin, director: Peter Stein )
  • Well-known faces, mixed feelings (premiere: September 2nd, 1975 Staatstheater Stuttgart , director: Niels-Peter Rudolph )
  • Trilogy of reunion (premiere: May 18, 1977 Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director: Dieter Giesing )
  • Big and Small (Premiere: December 6, 1978 Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin, Director: Peter Stein)
  • Kalldewey, Farce (premiere: January 31, 1982 Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director: Niels-Peter Rudolph)
  • Der Park 1983 (based on A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - Premiere: October 5, 1984 Städtische Bühnen Freiburg , director: Dieter Bitterli)
  • The tourist guide (premiere: February 15, 1986 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, director: Luc Bondy )
  • Molières Misanthrop (translation and adaptation of the piece by Molière - premiere: November 20, 1987 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , Berlin, director: Luc Bondy)
  • Visitors (premiere: October 6, 1988, Münchner Kammerspiele , director: Dieter Dorn )
  • Seven Doors (Premiere: November 20, 1988 Stadsteater Stockholm, Director: Jan Maagard - German-language premiere: December 12, 1988 Burgtheater Vienna, Director: Alexander Seer)
  • The time and the room (premiere: February 8, 1989 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, director: Luc Bondy)
  • Final choir (premiere: February 1, 1991 Münchner Kammerspiele, director: Dieter Dorn)
  • Angela's dresses (premiere: October 4, 1991 steirischer Herbst / Vereinigte Bühnen Graz, director: Leander Haußmann )
  • The Balance , (Premiere: July 26th 1993, Salzburg Festival , Director: Luc Bondy)
  • Ithaka (Premiere: July 19, 1996 Münchner Kammerspiele, director: Dieter Dorn)
  • The kiss of oblivion , (premiere: November 28, 1998 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, director: Matthias Hartmann )
  • The Similar (Premiere: June 6, 1998 Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna, Director: Peter Stein)
  • Jeffers Act I and II (Premiere: April 21, 1998 Hebbel-Theater , Berlin, Director: Edith Clever )
  • Lotphantasie ( Premiere : May 27, 1999 Wiener Festwochen , Theater in der Josefstadt / Rabenhof, director: Luc Bondy)
  • The fool and his wife tonight in Pancomedia (premiere: April 7, 2001 at Schauspielhaus Bochum , director: Matthias Hartmann)
  • Unexpected return (premiere: March 9, 2002 Berliner Ensemble , director: Luc Bondy)
  • Desecration (based on Titus Andronicus . By William Shakespeare - Premiere: October 7, 2005, Théâtre de l'Odéon , Paris, director: Luc Bondy - German-language premiere: January 28, 2006 Berliner Ensemble, director: Thomas Langhoff )
  • One and the other , (Premiere: January 27, 2005 Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich, Director: Dieter Dorn)
  • After love, their story begins (premiere: September 16, 2005 Schauspielhaus Zürich , shipbuilding, director: Matthias Hartmann)
  • Easy Game (Premiere: April 2, 2009 Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Munich, Director: Dieter Dorn)
  • The blind event (premiere: March 11, 2011, Burgtheater Vienna, director: Matthias Hartmann )

Other

Essays

Awards

literature

  • Helga Arend: Botho Strauss. Literature compact. Edited by Gunter E. Grimm. Tectum, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8288-3327-2 .
  • Helga Arend: Mythical Realism - Botho Strauss' work from 1963 to 1994. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2009, ISBN 978-3-86821-192-4 .
  • Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Text + kritik , magazine for literature . Booklet 81: Botho Strauss. 1984, ISBN 3-88377-162-7 .
  • Thomas Assheuer: tragedy of freedom. From Remscheid to Ithaca. Radicalized language criticism with Botho Strauss. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2759-6 .
  • Hans Peter Balmer : Botho Strauss: The one below on tiptoe . In: Great works of literature, Hans Vilmar Geppert (Ed.), Vol. 9, A. Francke, Tübingen 2006, pp. 165–187.
  • Dirk Michael Becker: Botho Strauss: Dissipation. The dissolution of word and object. Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-232-5 .
  • Geum Hwan Choo: Intertextuality in Botho Strauss' dramas based on selected pieces and productions. Munich 2006.
  • Andreas Englhart: In the labyrinth of infinite text. Botho Strauss' plays 1972-1996. De Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-484-66032-5 .
  • Diana Florea, Simone Gottschlich, Anita Gröger, Alexandra Ludäscher, Irena Shikida (eds.): "AugenBlicke - Multi-perspective approach to the work of Botho Strauss." Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8260-5118-0 .
  • Pia-Maria Funke: About the higher in literature. An attempt at aesthetics by Botho Strauss. 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1159-7 .
  • Ralf Havertz: The impetus. Botho Strauss' essay "Swelling Bocksgesang" and the New Right. A critical discourse analysis. 2 volumes. Traktor, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811991-2-3 and ISBN 978-3-9811991-4-7 .
  • Eva C. Huller: Greek Theater in Germany: Myth and Tragedy with Heiner Müller and Botho Strauss. Weimar / Cologne 2007.
  • Peter Kapitza (Ed.): Botho Strauss. In: Fachdienst Germanistik. Language and literature in the criticism of German-language newspapers , No. 1, Iudicium, Munich 2015, pp. 12–16. (Summary of the reviews on origin )
  • Christoph Kappes: Writing gestures - on poetics and language with Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke and Botho Strauss. Würzburg 2006.
  • Marcin Nowak: “Living in Divorce”. Conditio humana in the work of Botho Strauss. Dresden / Wrocław 2006, ISBN 3-934038-56-5 and 83-7432-107-5.
  • Thomas Oberender (Ed.): Insurmountable closeness. Texts about Botho Strauss. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-934344-43-7 .
  • Sascha Prostka: Imploded worldliness. Botho Strauss and the literary-aesthetic critique of globalization. Dissertation University of Gothenburg. Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, Marburg 2018.
  • Franziska Regner: “Listening sounds”. Global resonance spaces in the prose texts by Botho Strauss. Dissertation, University of Mannheim, 2008 ( full text )
  • Sebastian Schauberger: Permanence of the archetypes. Mythical and biblical allusions in Botho Strauss. Dissertation. Bielefeld University, 2000 ( online, 670 kB ).
  • Jürgen Schröder: Who's Afraid Of ...? Botho Strauss and German Post-War Literature. In: Robert Weninger, Brigitte Rossbacher (Hrsg.): Turning times - turning times. Position determinations on German-language literature 1945–1995 . Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen 1997, pp. 215-231.
  • Natascha Siouzouli: How absence of presence comes about. Botho Strauss staged by Luc Bondy . Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-891-9 .
  • Nadja Thomas: The uprising against the secondary world: Botho Strauss and the "Conservative Revolution" (Epistemata - Würzburg scientific writings. Series of literary studies). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-8260-2693-5
  • Philippe Wellnitz: Botho Strauss en dialogue with the theater. Autoréférentialité théâtrale dans Trilogie du revoir, Grand et petit, Kalldewey, farce. Orizons, Paris, 2010, ISBN 978-2-296-08764-4 .
  • Michael Wiesberg: Botho Strauss. Poet of the counter-enlightenment. Perspektiven 3rd Edition Antaios , Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-935063-03-2 .
  • Stefan Willer : Botho Strauss as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-88506-317-4 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Botho Strauss  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Pabst: This gentleman no longer lives here. Local appointment in Bad Ems: What the small spa town with a great past reveals about the origins of Botho Strauss . In: FAZ , December 22, 2014, p. 11
  2. ↑ rowohlt-Theaterverlag :: Strauss, Botho .
  3. ↑ Strauss published a report on his youth in Bad Ems in autumn 2014: Origin , Hanser Verlag
  4. ^ Hans-Dieter Schütt: Greedy into tomorrow (new Germany). Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hubert Spiegel: A visit to Botho Strauss: The old boy . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 23, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Debate on suspicion about Simon Strauss and the rights ( memento of November 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on br.de of January 17, 2018, accessed on April 4, 2019 (archived version)
  7. ↑ Simon Strauss. In: editorial office. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 17, 2016, accessed on January 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Simon Strauss: Seven Nights . Berlin: Blumenbar, 2017. Danilo Scholz: Literary insurance broker . Review by taz , August 11, 2017
  9. ^ Winner of the Jean Paul Prize ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art.
  10. ^ Swelling goatsong . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1993, pp. 202-207 ( online ).
  11. ↑ Pioneers like Nolte. Ignatz Bubis explains his intellectual scolding . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1994 ( online ).
  12. ^ Swelling goatsong . ( Memento from August 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Technische Universität Dresden , 1993
  13. ↑ Martin Doerry : Teacher of hatred . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1994 ( online ).
  14. ↑ FOCUS Online: The "new" rights .
  15. ^ National Gallery ( Memento from September 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  16. ↑ Gerhard Stadelmaier: The great women's world theater. Botho Strauss in Munich. FAZ, April 6, 2009, accessed on February 21, 2012 . See also: Christopher Schmidt : The nine-fold woman. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 3, 2009, accessed on February 21, 2012 .
  17. ↑ Cate Blanchett plays Botho Strauss. Rowohlt-Theaterverlag, November 28, 2011.
  18. ↑ The last German . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 2015 ( online ).
  19. ↑ Johano Strasser on the "Spiegel" article - Botho Strauss ignites again .
  20. ^ Richard Kämmerlings: German tradition? One answer to Botho Strauss . October 6, 2015.
  21. ↑ Botho Strauss' refugee culture dispute - "Finding something problematic is branded as racist" .
  22. ↑ Botho Strauss in the future with Rowohlt. buchmarkt.de, January 26, 2017, accessed on January 28, 2017.
  23. ↑ Botho Strauss. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Botho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)