John von Düffel

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John von Düffel (born October 20, 1966 in Göttingen ) is a German dramaturge and writer .

Life

John von Düffel is the eldest son of the university lecturer, high school teacher and translator Peter von Düffel and the philosopher Gudrun von Düffel. He lives and works in Potsdam . In the course of his youth, von Düffel lived abroad with his parents for a long time: in the 1960s in Derry (Northern Ireland), in the 1970s in South Dakota . In 1985 he passed his Abitur at an Oldenburg grammar school and then studied philosophy , German and economics at the universities of Stirling (Scotland) and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1989 he received his doctorate with a thesis on epistemology . He then worked as a film journalist and theater critic .

Parallel to his literary work, he was a dramaturge at several German theaters: from 1993 to 1995 at the Theater der Altmark in Stendal, from 1995 to 1996 at the Staatstheater Oldenburg , from 1996 to 1998 at the Theater Basel , from 1998 to 2000 at the Schauspielhaus Bonn and from 2000 until 2009 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. For the Thalia he developed a. a. the first stage version of the novel Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (premiere: December 3, 2005). He is currently the dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.

In 2004, Jörg Adolph shot the documentary Houwelandt - A novel is created with John von Düffel , which was broadcast on 3sat in 2005 .

In 2006 von Düffel was a member of the jury that awards the German Book Prize. In 2007 he was on the jury of the Mara Cassens Prize of the Hamburg Literature House . In 2008 he was professor of poetry at the University of Bamberg .

Von Düffel wrote the stage text for the musical Der Schuh des Manitu (based on the film of the same name by Michael "Bully" Herbig ), which was shown for the first time on December 7, 2008 in the Berlin Theater des Westens . In February 2009 his theater adaptation of Thomas Mann's romantic tale Joseph and his brothers was premiered at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . On July 31, 2009, his play Das Leben des Siegfried , a comedic version of the Nibelungen saga , premiered at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms , for which he has worked as a dramaturge since 2002. In 2013 von Düffel created the German version of the London hit play Companions ( War Horse ).

Together with the author Stephan Kimmig, von Düffel wrote a fire letter to the Dutch government on June 25, 2011 about cuts under the title Europe would miss crucial theater people , which was signed by numerous cultural workers.

John von Düffel has a daughter.

Works

science

  • Intentionality as intentionality. Epistemological investigations within the framework of a uniform basic understanding of subjectivity , Stuttgart [u. a.]: Kohlhammer 1991 (Munich Philosophical Studies, NF, 6) ( Dissertation )

Plays

  • Oi , play, Gifkendorf 1995
  • Solingen , play, Gifkendorf 1995
  • Missing Müller , play, Gifkendorf 1997
  • The unknown with the hair dryer , play, Gifkendorf 1997
  • Shakespeare, Murderer, Pulp & Fiktion , Theater Basel 1997, Shakespeare's murderous scene from Richard III spun on in the light of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction, Merlin Verlag 2010
  • Born in the RAF , play, Gifkendorf 1999
  • Mad cow disease , play, Gifkendorf 1999
  • Balcony scenes, play, Bonn 2000
  • Seven sonnets based on William Shakespeare, 2000, Stuttgart 2008, Grenzlandtheater Aachen 2015
  • Manitu's Shoe , Musical 2008
  • Me, Heinz Erhardt , Pforzheim / Oldenburg 2009
  • The life of Siegfried , 2009
  • Dream Jobs , 2009
  • Every sixteen years in summer , play, world premiere, Koblenz 2012/2013
  • World war for everyone. A Brief History of Peace , premiered on May 18, 2014, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
  • Ikarus , world premiere on October 5, 2019, Theater Ulm

Stage versions and arrangements (selection)

  • Der Schimmelreiter (based on Theodor Storm ), premiered on January 15, 2008, Thalia Theater, Hamburg
  • Heart of Darkness (based on Joseph Conrad ), premiere on September 17th, 2009, Deutsches Theater, Berlin
  • King Shakespeare or Everything is true, premiered on March 20, 2010, Salzburger Landestheater
  • Anna Karenina (based on Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy ), premiere on April 15, 2012, Salzburg State Theater
  • Orestes (based on Sophocles , Aeschylus , Euripides ), premiered on September 14, 2013, Bavarian State Theater
  • Kirschgarten - The Return (after Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov ), world premiere on February 7, 2014, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam, D: Tobias Wellemeyer
  • Die Bakchen (Pussy Roit) (based on Euripides), premiere on April 16, 2015, Theater Ulm, ebook Rowohlt 2016
  • Roman trilogy , based on William Shakespeare's Coriolan , Julius Caesar and Antonius and Cleopatra, world premiere on October 22nd, 2016, Staatstheater Nürnberg,
  • King Lear (based on Shakespeare), premiered on September 9, 2017, Theater Koblenz
  • It Can't Happen Here . Based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis, version: Christopher Rüping and John von Düffel, dramaturgy: John von Düffel, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Kammerspiele, September 20, 2017
  • Rome , based on William Shakespeare's Coriolan , Julius Caesar and Antonius and Cleopatra, arrangement by John von Düffel; Version Karin Henkel, John von Düffel, premiere on March 16, 2018, Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • Wolf under wolves , libretto based on the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada for the opera by Søren Nils Eichberg , premiered on November 23, 2019, Theater Koblenz

Fiction

  • Vom Wasser , Roman, Cologne 1998, paperback dtv, 2000, 10th edition 2008
  • Night drive , Karlsruhe 1999
  • Swimming , essay, Munich 2000
  • Time of Disappearance , Roman, Cologne 2000, paperback dtv, 2002, 3rd edition 2008
  • Ego , Roman, Cologne 2001
  • Water and other worlds , essays, Cologne 2002
  • Houwelandt , Roman, Cologne 2004
  • Hotel Angst , novella, Cologne 2006
  • Best Years , Roman, Cologne 2007, paperback dtv, 2010
  • What I'm writing about , Poetics, DuMont Verlag Cologne 2009 (transcription and revision of four free lectures as part of the poetics professorship at the University of Bamberg 2008) ISBN 978-3-8321-8088-1
  • Goethe calls , Roman, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-8568-8
  • Water narratives, stories, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8321-9744-5 (eleven stories)
  • KL. Conversation about immortality, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-8321-9784-1 , paperback dtv, 2017
  • Class register . Roman, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-9834-3

Essay writing (selection)

  • How dramas are created by John von Düffel and Klaus Siblewski . Luchterhand Verlag Munich, 2012. ISBN 978-3-630-87364-0
  • Stories of Dying | Petra Anwar with John von Düffel | Piper Verlag Munich, 2013. ISBN 978-3-492-05577-2 (A palliative medicine specialist tells 12 stories of dying)
  • Learning to read water, a plea for swimming , FAZ Stil, August 13, 2017 faz.net

Translations

  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Die Lästerschule (English: The School for Scandal ), Berlin 1995
  • Herman Melville : Bartleby , Gifkendorf 1998 (together with Peter von Düffel)
  • Thurston Clarke : Die Insel , Hamburg 2003 (together with Peter von Düffel), paperback Piper Verlag, Munich 2014
  • Alan Bennett : Was, Was or the illness of King Georg III (original title: The Madness of George III ), Reinbek near Hamburg (together with Peter von Düffel)
  • Jason Hall : 10,11,12 Third Floor , Hamburg 2011 (together with Peter von Düffel)

Editing

  • Charles Sprawson : I'll take you on my back, wed you to the ocean , Hamburg 2002

Radio play (selection)

Projects

Authors write with pupils - eight experiments, author project "I am so young and the world is so old", project of the Federal Cultural Foundation in cooperation with the PEN Center Germany on the occasion of the Büchnerjahr 2013, www.kulturstiftung-bund.de/ autorenprojekt ( Youtube statement)

  • William Shakespeare: Macbeth , conversation with Ulrike Draesner and John von Düffel, Literaturhaus Stuttgart on January 17, 2017

Prices

literature

  • Stefanie Ablass: Economization of the Body: Interdependencies of the Economic and Physical Sphere in Business Fiction . In: Evi Zemanek, Susanne Krones (ed.): Literature of the turn of the millennium. Topics, writing methods and book market around 2000 . Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, pp. 163-177.
  • David-Christopher Assmann: Intoxication and work, hard work. John von Düffel's authentication gesture . In: Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies , 47 (2011), No. 3, pp. 365–378.
  • Iuditha Balint: Interior and Surface. Incorporated economy in the works of John von Düffel, Ernst-Wilhelm Händler, Ewald Palmetshofer and Elfriede Jelinek . In: Cornelia Logemann u. a. (Ed.): Body Aesthetics. Allegorical embodiments as an aesthetic principle . transcript, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 93-107.
  • Maria Behre, Volkan Goll, Tobias Leng: Ethics & Philosophy in Literature: John von Düffel: Klassenbuch . In: Ethics & Education , 2018, Issue 1: Networks, p. 51 and Material p. 4 f.
  • Stephanie Catani, Friedhelm Marx (ed.): Family stories. The literary work of John von Düffels (= Poiesis 6). Wallstein, Göttingen 2010.
  • Anne Fleig: Nabelschau - fitness as self-management in John von Düffel's novel satire EGO . In: Paula-Irene Villa (Ed.): Beautifully normal. Manipulations on the body as technologies of the self . Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, pp. 85-98.
  • Walburga Freund-Spork: … the black stream of my childhood flowed in the indifference between reality, memory and dream. John von Düffel's "Vom Wasser" (1998), in: Freund, Wieland and Freund, Winfried (ed.): The German novel of the present (= UTB 2251). Fink, Munich 2001, pp. 207-213.
  • Rüdiger Sareika (Ed.): Buddenbrooks, Houwelandt & Co. On the psychopathology of the family using the example of the work of Thomas Mann and John von Düffel (= conference minutes - Institute for Church and Society). Institute for Church and Society, Iserlohn 2007.
  • Achim Stricker: 'We always return to the water.' - Remembering, repeating and suppressing in John von Düffel's novels Ego and Vom Wasser . In: Robert André, Christoph Deupmann (Hrsg.): Paradoxien der repetition (= New forum for general and comparative literary studies 17). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2003, pp. 137–156.
  • Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf: In the intensive care unit. Or: the car machine. On John von Düffel's Missing Müller (Milling Machine) (1997) . In: Martin Hellmold u. a. (Ed.): What is an artist? The subject of modern art . Fink, Munich 2003, pp. 195-211.

Interviews

Web links

Commons : John von Düffel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 3Sat (lin) ( Memento of the original from September 27, 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. , dated September 16, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.3sat.de
  2. ^ Rita Nikolow: Musical The Show des Manitu , in Der Tagesspiegel from November 16, 2008
  3. ↑ Thomas Mann for the theater on the Deutschlandradio website from February 15, 2009
  4. ↑ John von Düffel on the topicality of the Nibelungs , Interview in der Welt from July 31, 2009.
  5. ↑ Stephan Kimmig and John von Düffel write a fire letter to the Dutch government , on nachtkritik.de from June 25, 2011
  6. ↑ John von Düffel on the Blue Sofa , on ZDF from March 25, 2017
  7. ↑ It Can't Happen Here , performance at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  8. ↑ Maria Behre: The Sorrows of Young Internet Users - John von Düffel's novel “Klassenbuch” (2017) with a review of “KL - Conversation about Immortality” (2015); Review on literaturkritik.de. Retrieved on February 18, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Personal injury (double sequence, part 1), Radio-Tatort, Radio Bremen 2017.
  10. ↑ Bereavement (double episode part 2), Radio-Tatort, Radio Bremen 2017.
  11. ↑ Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel: William Shakespeare: Macbeth , series of events: Classics of the History of Literature in the Literaturhaus Stuttgart on January 17, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Düffel, John von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th October 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen