Christopher Hampton

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Christopher James Hampton , CBE , FRSL , (born January 26, 1946 in Ilha do Faial , Portugal ) is a British playwright , translator, screenwriter and director .

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Christopher Hampton was born to British parents in Faial , an island in the Azores . His father, Bernard Patrick Hampton, worked there as a specialist telecommunications engineer for Cable & Wireless . Due to the father's occupation, the family moved to Aden and then to Alexandria in Egypt. Because of the Suez Crisis in 1956, the family was forced to rush to leave Egypt without leaving their possessions. Christopher and his older brother were sent to England while the father continued to work internationally for his company.

After attending a school in Reigate ( Surrey ), after three years at the age of 13 he switched to Lancing College , one of the old English private schools. One of his school colleagues was the playwright David Hare , the poet Harry Guest (* 1932) was a teacher there. From 1964 he studied German and French at New College, Oxford and graduated in 1968 with a First Class Degree .

In 1973 he made his debut as a screenwriter for the film A Puppet's House based on a play by Henrik Ibsen, which is based on a Broadway production of the play. In 1979 he worked as a writer on the film Tales from the Vienna Woods , which is based on the play of the same name by Ödön von Horváth .

In 1985 the Royal Shakespeare Company produced his adaptation of the novel Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos . Hampton won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for the play , while Lindsay Duncan received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for portraying the Marquise de Verteuil . His screenplay for the drama of the same name meant the breakthrough for Hampton; In 1989 he received the Oscar and the Writers Guild of America Award for this work .

In the 1980s he was active in both television and cinema; this continued into the early 1990s.

He made his directorial debut in 1995 with the film Carrington , for which he also wrote the screenplay. A year later, he directed The Secret Agent , a reinterpretation of the eponymous material by Joseph Conrad , which had already been filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1936 under the title Sabotage . In the years that followed, he worked exclusively as a screenwriter for various films, and it wasn't until 2003 that he made his third film as a director.

His screenplay for the literary film Atonement earned him an Oscar nomination and he won the Satellite Award . In 1999 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the British Queen .

Christopher Hampton has been married since 1971 and has two children.

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Plays

  • 1966: When Did You Last See My Mother? , Premiered at the Royal Court Theater
  • 1971: The Philanthropist , premiered at the Royal Court Theater; Translated into German by Martin Walser
  • 1974: Die Wilden ( Savages) , first performance at the Royal Court Theater; Translated into German by Alissa and Martin Walser
  • 1985: Les Liaisons Dangereuses , theater adaptation of the eponymous letter novel by Choderlos de Laclos for the Royal Shakespeare Company, first performance Stratford-on-Avon 1985
  • 1991: The White Chameleon , world premiere at the Cottesloe Theater of the Royal National Theater , London, directed by Richard Eyre ; Translated into German by Alissa and Martin Walser
  • 2003: The Talking Cure , world premiere at Cottesloe Theater of the Royal National Theater, London, directed by Howard Davies
  • 2009: Youth without God, based on Ödön von Horváth , premiered on November 26th, 2009 in the Theater in der Josefstadt ; translated into German by Reinhard Palm
  • 2014: a dark desire. Director: Christopher Hampton; German translation by Daniel Kehlmann , premiered on November 27, 2014 in the Theater in der Josefstadt
  • 2020: Secret of an unknown person based on Stefan Zweig's novella Letter of an unknown person , German translation by Daniel Kehlmann, world premiere in the 2020/21 season at the Theater in der Josefstadt

Translations and arrangements for the theater

Hampton has edited and re-translated numerous plays from European theater for the English stage. As a rule, his versions were first played on stage and only later published.

  • Odon von Horváth : Don Juan from the war ( Don Juan Comes Back From the War ); First performance 1978: National Theater Company, Cottesloe Theater, London
  • Odon von Horváth: Tales from the Vienna Woods ( Tales from the Vienna Woods ); First performance 1977: National Theater Company, Olivier Theater, London
  • Odon von Horváth: GlaubeLiebeHoffnung ( Faith, Hope, and Charity ); First performed in 1989: Lyric Hammersmith
  • Ödon von Horvath: The Last Judgment ( Judgment Day ); First performance in 2009
  • Henrik Ibsen : Hedda Gabler ; First performance 1976: Ibsen Festival Theater, Stratford, Ontario, Canada,
  • Ibsen: ghosts ( Ghosts ); First performance in 1978
  • Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House ( A Doll's House ); First performance in 1972
  • Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy (Enemy of the People) ; First performance in 1997
  • Henrik Ibsen: The Wild Duck ( The Wild Duck ); Premiere
  • Molière : Don Juan ( Don Juan ); First performance in 1972
  • Molière: Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur ( Tartuffe, or The Imposter ); First performance 1983: Royal Shakespeare Company
  • Anton Chekhov : The Seagull ( The Seagull ); Premiere Southwark Playhouse
  • Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya ( Uncle Vanja ); First performance 2012: Vaudeville Theater, London
  • Anton Chekhov: Three Sisters ( Three Sisters ); First performance 2003: Playhouse London
  • Yasmina Reza : L'homme du hasard ( The Unexpected Man ); First performance 1998: The Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican Pit and Duchess Theater, London.
  • Yasmina Reza: Conversations après un enterrement ( Conversations After a Burial) ; First performance 2000: Almeida Theater , London
  • Yasmina Reza: kind ( kind ); First performance: 1996 West End London,
  • Yasmina Reza: Trois versions de la vie ( Life x 3 ); First performed 2000/2001: Lyttleton Auditorium of the Royal National Theater, 2001 Old Vic
  • Yasmina Reza: Carnage ( God of Carnage ); First performance 2008: Gielgud Theater , London

Scripts

Libretti

Films (directing)

  • 1995: Carrington
  • 1996: The Secret Agent
  • 2003: Deported (Imagining Argentina)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John O'Mahony, "Worlds of his own," The Guardian , April 21, 2001, accessed August 9, 2008.
  2. ↑ Christopher Hampton Biography (1946–)
  3. ↑ Michael Coveney Hampton, "A talent to adapt," The Guardian , March 4, 2006, accessed August 9, 2008.
  4. ↑ Patrick Healy: 'Rebecca' producer hoper for Broadway run in 2013. New York Times, January 2, 2013, accessed January 26, 2013 .
  5. ^ [1] The Guardian, November 11, 2015, accessed January 3, 2017
  6. ^ Wiener Zeitung - Destructive Psychotriangel: "A dark desire" by Christopher Hampton in Josefstadt . Article dated November 28, 2014, accessed on January 18, 2015.
  7. ^ Theater in the Josefstadt - Christopher Hampton: A dark desire . Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  8. ↑ Theater in der Josefstadt - A Dark Desire: World premiere, premiere on November 27, 2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 18, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.josefstadt.org  
  9. ↑ Secret of a Stranger. In: josefstadt.org. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  10. ↑ London Theater Archive April 19, 1998, accessed January 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hampton, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hampton, Christopher James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilha do Faial , Portugal