Exiles
Exiled (English title: Exiles ) is a play by James Joyce , published in London in print on May 25, 1918th It was premiered in 1919 at the Munich Schauspielhaus .
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The writer Richard Rowan returns to Dublin from Rome after several years. There he finds out that his wife Bertha is in intimate correspondence with his childhood friend, the journalist Robert Hand. In addition, another triangular relationship develops between Rowan, Hand and his cousin Beatrice.
The jealous drama is colored autobiographically: Joyce and his partner Nora Barnacle lived unmarried in Trieste in 1912, at the time in which the play is set ; the character Robert Hand is based on Joyce's friend Oliver St. John Gogarty . There are also parallels between the piece and Joyce's story Die Toten from his Dubliner cycle and a great influence of Henrik Ibsen's dramas.
Performances
The play was rejected by William Butler Yeats and the Irish National Theater Abbey Theater .
The first performance took place under the German title Banish on August 7, 1919 at the Munich Schauspielhaus, directed by Erwin von Busse . The translation was by Hannah von Mettal . In the performance Wilhelm Dieterle as Richard Rowan, Carla Holm as Berta Rowan and Franz Scharwenka as Robert Hand could be seen.
The English-language premiere did not follow until February 19, 1925 in New York. In 1970 Harold Pinter directed the play at London's Mermaid Theater.
In 2014, the piece was staged again under its English title Exiles at the Münchner Kammerspiele , the location of its premiere. The director was Luk Perceval , Stephan Bissmeier , Sylvana Krappatsch , Marie Jung and Kristof Van Boven could be seen on the stage .
literature
- James Joyce: Exiles. Play in 3 acts. Zurich: Verlag Rascher & Cie. 1919.
- James Joyce: Exiles. Translation by Friedrich Kremer. Zurich: Europa Verlag. 1956
- James Joyce: Exiles. New German translation by Klaus Reichert. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1968.
Web links
- James Joyce: Exiles .
- Andreas Weigel: " Meteorite meets branch ". About James Joyce and Zweig and Salzburg at that. In: Die Presse , Spectrum. June 13, 2009. S.IV.
Individual evidence
- ↑ On this day… 25 May at jamesjoyce.ie, accessed on January 12, 2018
- ↑ Ney York Times: Revaluing Joyce's 'Exiles'
- ^ Wilhelm Füger (Ed.): Critical legacy. Documents on the reception of James Joyce in the German-speaking area during the author's lifetime. A reader . Rodopi, Amsterdam a. a. 2000, ISBN 90-420-0769-9 , ( International Research on General and Comparative Literature 40).
- ^ Night review: Exiles