Fun home

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Fun Home - A Family of Drawn (English: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic ) is an autobiographical graphic novel by the author / illustrator Alison Bechdel , published in 2006 and awarded the Eisner Award . Topics of the comic include a. Growing up, sexual orientation , gender roles , family problems, and coping with suicide .

In 2012, Bechdel processed the relationship with her mother in the graphic novel "Who is the mother here? A comic drama" (English: "Are You My Mother ?: A comic drama.").

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In seven short stories, Bechdel recapitulates her childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania in the 1960s. Focus is her complicated relationship with her father Bruce, the family-owned funeral home (ger .: Funeral Home , ironically by the family to Fun Home shortened, d. H. "Fun House") directs. While Alison is a rebellious tomboy , Bruce is feminine and perfectionist "to the point of tyranny", which leads to tension between him and Alison and her brothers Chris and John until his untimely death in a traffic accident when she was 19.

The seven chapters are arranged non-linearly: A period of about ten years is covered in chronological order, but various incidents are repeatedly taken up and reinterpreted, in particular with regard to their possible significance for the “unmanly” behavior of her father and Alison Bechdel's own “unfeminine” side . During the story, she finds more and more evidence that Bruce Bechdel is secretly homosexual or bisexual and that she is attracted to women. In college, she came out as a lesbian, whereupon her mother confesses that her father cheated on her "with various men". Shortly before his death, the father and daughter speak out and their mother initiates a divorce from him. At the end of the story, Bechdel comes to the conclusion that his death was actually suicide : Since his homosexual affairs would have come to light in the divorce process, he chose suicide.

reception

Bechdel signs copies of Fun Home (2008).

“Even if you are used to turning what you have read into pictures yourself, you don't feel patronized by the detailed drawings. Rather, the eye can get lost in the many incorporated documents: diary entries, maps, letters and lexicon articles. A quick leafing through is forbidden not only by the loving details, but also by the cross-references between the main text and the thoughts integrated into the pictures. Fortunately, Bechdel approaches the tragic story with a good dose of humor, despite all the reading. And so after reading it for the first time, one likes to turn the page back to look at one or the other drawing. "

- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“Amazing memoirs of a girl who lives in a small town with a reserved, perfectionist father and finds out that she is a) homosexual and b) him too. Breathtakingly cleverly told and eloquently drawn. Forget about genre and questions of sexual orientation, this is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but in different worlds. "

- TIME

"During the story, the suppressed bisexuality and the resulting burdens on the marriage of Bechdel's parents are pointed out ... Bechdel has the talent to grasp both the smallest nuances and the general structures without appearing forced."

- The Gay and Lesbian Review

Because of the LGBT- oriented content and the graphic representation of lesbian scenes, Fun Home was criticized by conservative critics in the USA as "pornographic and harmful to minors".

Awards

  • Lambda Literary Award (2006) in the Lesbian Memoir / Biography category
  • Eisner Award (2007) in the Best Reality-Based Work category
  • "One of the 10 Best Books of the Year" (2006), TIME Magazine

German publications

Fun Home has been published in Germany as hardcover by the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 2011 .

musical

In 2013 Fun Home was adapted as a musical . The music comes from the Tony Award- nominated Jeanine Tesori . The book and the lyrics are by Obie Award winner Lisa Kron .

The Off-Broadway premiere was on September 30, 2013 at The Public Theater in New York. The season was extended several times, so that production ran until January 2014. Sam Gold directed the film. The production has been called the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian. The musical Fun Home was a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Musical, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, and the Obie Award for Musical Theater. Alison Bechdel drew a one-page comic about the musical adaptation for the newspaper Seven Days .

In 2014 a Broadway production was announced.

The Broadway premiere was in April 2015 at the Circle in the Square Theater. The production won five awards at Tony Awards 2015, including the category 'Best Musical'.

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  2. ↑ 10 Best Books , TIME.
  3. ↑ My Father, My Self ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Gay and Lesbian Review.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glreview.com
  4. ^ Library board hears complaints about books / Decision scheduled for Oct. 11 meeting , The Marshall_Democrat News.
  5. ↑ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna: 19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. April 30, 2006, accessed March 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Die Welt : "Papa is gay, papa is dead" , review by Fun Home , March 1, 2008
  7. ^ Adam Hetrick: Ojai Playwrights Conference Begins in CA; Kron and Tesori Pen New Musical . In: Playbill , August 4, 2009. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 3, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playbill.com 
  8. ↑ Mike Boehm: Cherry Jones, Raul Esparza give Sundance Theater Lab star power . In: Los Angeles Times , July 10, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2013. 
  9. ^ Adam Hetrick: Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron Musical Fun Home Will Debut at the Public; Judy Kuhn to Star . In: Playbill , September 11, 2012. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 4, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playbill.com 
  10. ^ Michael Gioia: Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Alexandra Socha Among Cast of Fun Home; Other Public Theater Casting Announced, Too . In: Playbill . Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playbill.com
  11. ↑ Michael Gioia, Adam Hetrick: Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron Musical 'Fun Home' Given Fourth Extension . December 4, 2013. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 6, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playbill.com
  12. ↑ June Thomas: Fun Home: Is America Ready for a Musical About a Butch Lesbian? . In: Slate . Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  13. ↑ drama . Columbia University . April 14, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
  14. ↑ 2014 nominations . May 4, 2014. Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 16, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lortelaward.com
  15. ↑ Patrick Healy: Critics' Circle Names' Fun Home 'Best Musical . In: New York Times , May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2014. 
  16. ↑ Nick Lucchesi: Village Voice Announces Winners of 59th Annual Obie Awards, Names Tom Sellar Lead Theater Critic . In: The Village Voice , May 19, 2014. Archived from the original on May 21, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 21, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.villagevoice.com 
  17. ↑ Alison Bechdel : Fun Home! The musical! . In: Seven Days , Da Capo Publishing, July 2, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014. 
  18. ↑ Patrick Healy: 'Fun Home' Will Reach Broadway Just Before Tony's Deadline . In: The New York Times , August 7, 2014. Retrieved August 8, 2014. 
  19. ^ Adam Hetrick: Fun Home Will Arrive on Broadway Earlier Than Expected . December 1, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  20. ^ David Sims: Fun Home's Success Defines the 2015 Tony Awards . In: The Atlantic , June 8, 2015. 

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