Elfriede Müller (writer)

Elfriede Müller (born March 22, 1956 in Düppenweiler ) is a German writer , actress and freelance writer.

Life

Müller's parents ran an inn with agriculture on the Litermont . From 1973 to 1976 she received ballet training at the Frankfurt University of Music , from 1976 to 1978 she attended an evening high school and graduated from high school. From 1978 to 1982 she completed an acting training at the Berlin University of the Arts .

In 1983 she was a co-founder of the Theater zum western Stadthirschen in Berlin. As an actress, she received guest engagements at the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Theater Oberhausen. From 1984 she worked continuously with the choreographer Vivienne Newport and her dance company in Frankfurt.

In 1988 her first, strongly autobiographically colored, Saarland play Bergarbeiterinnen appeared , which premiered in the same year at the Städtische Bühnen Freiburg under the direction of Hagen Mueller-Stahl . This was followed by the meta-theater play Damenbrise , premiered in the Literaturhaus Berlin in 1989, and the poetic-realistic conversational comedy Glas , premiered in 1990 at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (directed by Fred Berndt). In 1990 Elfriede Müller received the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation Prize.

Elfriede Müller has lived in Bonn since 2013. As a reaction to German reunification , her play Golden October, premiered at the Tübingen State Theater , appeared in 1991 . In 1993 her society satire Brautbitter was premiered at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich, directed by Friederike Vielstich. In 1995 Lovekicks appeared and in 1997 the tourists , in which the vacation appears as an existential nightmare (premiere Theater Oberhausen 1997, directed by Klaus Weise).

The miners in 1988 and the tourists in 1997 were invited to the Mülheim Theater Days .

In the following years, Elfriede Müller worked mainly as a freelance writer ( Tanger in DU, two pigeons sat on a roof - Pina Bausch in playwrights (Ed. Ursula Rühle), portrait of Rolf Mautz Elf Years and One Night in Theater Today 2002).

Fonts

• The miners / Golden October . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-88661-133-7 .
• Ladies breeze. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1989
• Glass. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1990
• Golden October. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1991
• Men's place setting. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Bridal bitters. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1993
• Love kicks. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1996
• The tourists. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1997

Translations

• Patrick Rotman : The soul in your fist . Association A, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935936-89-7 .

literature

• C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .