Enda Walsh

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Enda Walsh (* 1967 in Dublin ) is an Irish playwright and radio play writer .

Life

Enda Walsh grew up as the son of a furniture dealer in North Dublin and attended the Greendale Community School there. The writer Roddy Doyle was one of his teachers there. After graduating from high school, he studied film in Dublin and London . In 1991 he moved to Cork and worked as a playwright in the Corcadora Theater Company founded by director Pat Kiernan . With his third drama Disco Pigs , which premiered in 1996 and was filmed by Kirsten Sheridan in 2001 , he made his European breakthrough as a playwright. Due to overwork, Walsh suffered from severe fatigue syndrome in 1999, from which he recovered. For his play The New Electric Ballroom , which premiered at the Münchner Kammerspiele in 2004 , the German-speaking theater critics voted him “Foreign Dramatist of the Year 2005”.

In addition to his work as a theater, radio and screenwriter, Walsh also works as an actor and director. He gave the world premiere of his play Misterman himself and in 2005 staged the German-language premiere of Chatroom at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

Walsh is married and lives in London with his wife.

Works

Dramas

  • Fishy Tales (world premiere 1993, Dublin)
  • The Ginger Ale Boy (first performed 1995, Cork)
  • Disco Pigs (first performance 1996, Cork; German-language first performance 1998 Hamburg ; 2001 made into a film based on a Walsh script)
  • Sucking Dublin (first performance 1997, Dublin)
  • Misterman (first performance 1999, Cork; German-language first performance 2000, Berlin )
  • Bedbound (first performance 2000, Milan ; German-language first performance 2001, Munich )
  • The New Electric Ballroom German by Peter Torberg (world premiere 2004, Munich)
  • Fraternity (world premiere 2004, Zurich )
  • The Small Things (world premiere 2005, London)
  • Chatroom (world premiere 2005, London; German-language premiere 2005, Munich; Austrian premiere 2006, Vienna ; 2006 radio play version by NDR)
  • Pond Life Angels (world premiere 2005, Cork)
  • The Walworth Farce (world premiere 2006, Galway )
  • Gentrification (world premiere 2007, Bern )
  • The Homefront (German-language premiere 2008, Bern )
  • Penelope (world premiere 2010, Oberhausen )
  • Ballyturk (World Premiere 2014, Galway , Black Box Theater)

Musicals

  • Once (world premiere 2011, New York)
  • Lazarus (music and lyrics by David Bowie, world premiere 2015)

Opera libretti

Radio plays

  • Four Big Days in the Life of Dessie Banks (2000)
  • The Monotonous Life of Little Miss P (2002)

Movies

  • 2001: Disco Pigs - screenplay
  • 2008: Hunger - screenplay
  • 2010: Chatroom - Screenplay

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FAZ of December 30, 2010, page 41: A traumatic life story
  2. ↑ Spiegel Online : “Frontkampf in der Schweizer Kapital” , review of The Homefront , January 19, 2008
  3. ↑ German by Martin Michael Driessen, in: RUHR.2010, Uwe B. Carstensen , Stefanie von Lieven (ed.): Theater Theater. Odyssey Europe. Current pieces 20/10 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2010 ISBN 9783596185405
personal data
SURNAME Walsh, Enda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish playwright and radio play writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland