Lothar Trolls

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Lothar Trolle with Elisabeth Panknin (2014)

Lothar Trolle (born January 22, 1944 in Brücken ) is a German playwright, storyteller, poet, radio play author and translator.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1963, Lothar Trolle trained as a commercial clerk and then worked temporarily as a transport worker and stage technician at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . From 1966 to 1970 he studied philosophy with Wolfgang Heise at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since then he has lived as a freelance writer. From 1983 to 1987 he self-published the literary magazine Mikado together with Uwe Kolbe and Bernd Wagner . In 1991 Peter Eschberg appointed him to the Schauspiel Frankfurt as a resident author . Lothar Trolle's breakthrough came when Frank Castorf staged his play Hermes, which was written two years earlier, in the city at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. From 1994 to 1999 he was a resident author at the Berliner Ensemble . In 1978 and 1991 he received the children's radio play award from Terre des Hommes , in 1998 the radio play award from the Academy of the Arts and in 2007 became the 26th town clerk in Rheinsberg . Lothar Trolle is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Lothar Trolle lives in Berlin.

Dramas

Lothar Trolle's pieces demand a lot from the audience; they are complex in terms of both content and language. The critical lexicon for contemporary German literature writes: “Form dissolution, elimination of common drama patterns such as dialogue or final tension, play and counterplay up to the dissolution of characters in the most advanced cases form the core of Trollian drama, which in the classic avant-garde sense refers to the fundamental change in the scenic form It is characteristic of the author that he sees his dramas as work in progress, always composing them differently by transplanting scenes from one piece into another and giving the pieces new titles. Thematically, Trolle's work revolves around fascism and resistance, surreal everyday depictions, Old Testament end-time images and Dadaist puppet pieces.

Hermes in the city

Hermes in the city is the piece of Trolles that met with a great response and with which he became known. Frank Castorf staged it in 1992 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin; This was followed by performances on other German stages, for example in 1998 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg under Dimiter Gotscheff and in 2004 at the Kammerspiele in Munich under Laurent Chétouane . In this big-city milieu piece, which could also be set in the Parisian banlieue or a suburb of Rio, Trolle exploited some of the real crimes that happened in Berlin-Marzahn. Four scenes are about murder, rape, child abduction and robbery. Children seduce others to commit suicide over the phone. Trolls merges the myth of Hermes , the “god of thieves and traders, with the apparently ideology-free, post-industrial urban society. Hermes shows himself as the leading figure of the ruling ideology: Wherever there is carrion, the vultures gather! / Better to / play around with others than to / be played around yourself! "Castorf called the piece a big-city symphony and said about it on the occasion of the premiere:" You can tell how much eruption was already boiling under this skin of boredom in the GDR. "

Jozia

In Jozia , the play that premiered in the Schwerin State Theater in 1988 and was awarded the German Children's Radio Play Prize of “Terre des Hommes” the year before , the main character comes from Anna Segher's 1951 story “The Delegates' Daughter”. In this drama, the thirteen-year-old girl is waiting for the return of her mother, who is illegally attending a trade union congress in the Soviet Union. The curtains are closed because nobody is allowed to find out that the apartment is occupied. Jozia is alone, has only one piece of bread left, time stands still and her loneliness is agonizing. This basic situation - the senseless sitting in the apartment - also appears in Trolles' monologue, A Morning in Freedom, premiered in 1991 .

Works

Books

Plays

title premiere place year Director
KO after twelve rounds Mainfrankentheater Wurzburg 2014 Sascha Bunge
You live! You live! You are still alive! Theater on the Parkaue Berlin 2013 Sascha Bunge
Light Berlin, light! Theater on the Parkaue Berlin 2010 Sascha Bunge
The Hildebrand song Theater on the Parkaue Berlin 2006 Sascha Bunge
White on white City Theater Konstanz Constancy 2005 Wolfram Apprich
Märkische Pastorale Senftenberg Theater Senftenberg 2004 Sascha Bunge
The fleeing bull from P. Theater discounters Berlin 2003 Wolfram Apprich
The assembly (after A. Platonow) Berlin Ensemble Berlin 1996 Armin Petras
The homeworker Berlin Ensemble Berlin 1996 Wera Herzberg
The Lord's Hour Volkstheater Rostock Rostock 1993 Irene Hoffmann
Lizzi or Manage free for an elderly lady German theater Berlin 1993 Tatjana Rese
Hermes in the city German theater Berlin 1992 Frank Castorf
Barracks residents Theater under the roof Berlin 1990 Wera Herzberg
Jozia, the daughter of the delegates Schwerin State Theater Schwerin 1988 Thomas Valentin
PapaMama / 34 sentences about a woman Theater Gera Gera 1986 Wolf Bunge

Radio plays

  • 1986 Jozia, the daughter of the delegates or Die Heilige Johanna in the kitchen-cum-living room based on a story by Anna Seghers , directed by Karlheinz Liefers (GDR)
  • 1989: Someone is sitting on the sofa looking for his dream , director: Otto Düben (SDR)
  • 1991: A morning in freedom or you allow, Lehmann in front with L for Lenin , director: Karlheinz Liefers (Funkhaus Berlin)
  • 1991: The nine months of David Rubinowitz or Requiem for a boy who did not learn to ride a bike , director: Karlheinz Liefers (Funkhaus Berlin / HR) ( Terre des Hommes Children's Radio Play Prize )
  • 1992: Wstawate, Lizzy, wstawate or Manege free for an elderly lady , director: Karlheinz Liefers (DS Kultur / SFB)
  • 1994: Three of you under the apple tree , director: Ulrich Gerhardt (DLR / DRS)
  • 1995: Belo-Russian anthology , director: Ulrich Gerhardt (DLR)
  • 1997: God strolls , directed by Klaus Buhlert (DLF / DRS)
  • 1997: Anna's second creation of the world or The 81 minutes of Fraulein A. , director: Jörg Jannings (SDR / DLR), ( radio play of the month , radio play award of the Academy of Arts )
  • 1999: Der Herbst der RL , directed by Ulrich Gerhardt (DLF / SWR)
  • 2007: Stern über Marzahn , director: Klaus Buhlert (DLF)
  • 2010: Hans (im Glück) , director: Götz Naleppa (RBB)
  • 2013: Judith , director: Walter Adler (DLF)
  • 2015: Dshan , based on motifs from the novel by Andrei Platonow in the translation by Alfred Frank, director: Walter Adler (SWR), radio play of the year 2015
  • 2017: Epitaph for Sally Epstein - Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch (radio play - RBB )

Translations

  • Vítězslav Nezval : Dispatch . From the Czech. Ludewig, Berlin 2000
  • Vítězslav Nezval / Karel Teige : A dispatch on wheels. Theater texts 1922–1927 . BasisDruck, Berlin 2001

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Critical lexicon for contemporary German-language literature - KLG
  2. ↑ Axel Schalk: Lothar Trolle . In: Critical lexicon of contemporary German literature and Lothar Trolle: Hermes in the city . Henschel, Berlin 1991
  3. ↑ Frank Castorf on his world premiere of Hermes in der Stadt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin on February 16, 1992
personal data
SURNAME Trolls, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH bridges