Martin Crimp

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Martin Crimp (born February 14, 1956 in Dartford , Kent ) is an English playwright .

Life

Crimp is the son of a railroad signal technician and grew up in York . He studied English literature at Cambridge . He has been writing pessimistic dramas since the 1980s, on which he worked closely with the director Katie Mitchell , radio plays , opera librettos and scripts. In 2007, for example, he wrote the screenplay for François Ozone's Angel - A Life Like a Dream .

He received the John Whiting Award for The Shoot in 1993 , but Attacks on Anne , premiered in 1997 at the Royal Court Theater , where contradicting claims of various people about the character and life of the absent main character, made him international Star. The also very successful play Auf dem Land 2000 revolves around the doctor Richard, who allegedly moves into the countryside with the family in search of the idyll, but there the living conditions are more complex when a lover of his appears. Fewer Emergencies (2005) is a play about the phenomenon of rampage . Everything else you know from the cinema , an adaptation of the "Phoenicians" by Euripides , was premiered on November 24, 2013 in the Schauspielhaus Hamburg .

Works (selection)

  • Love Games , 1982
  • Living Remains , 1982
  • Dealing with Clair (German: Der Handel mit Clair ), 1988
  • Play with Repeats (German: Spiel mit Wiederholungen ), 1989
  • Getting Attention (German: Das stille Kind ), WP 1991
  • The Treatment (German: Der Dreh ), WP 1993
  • Attempts on her life (German: Attacks on Anne ), 1997 (translated into 20 languages)
  • The Country , UA 2000, (German: Auf dem Land ), German EA 2001 in Bochum, staged by Dieter Giesing
  • Fewer Emergencies (German: Less Emergency ), 2005
  • Into the Little Hill, libretto for the opera by George Benjamin , 2006
  • The City (German: Die Stadt ), 2008
  • Written on Skin , libretto for the opera by George Benjamin, WP 2012
  • The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema (German: Everything else you know from the cinema ), Premiere 2013, November 24, 2013 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
  • In the Republic of Happiness (German: In der Republik des Glücks ), Premiere 2013, German EA November 28, 2013 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • Lessons in Love and Violence , libretto for the opera by George Benjamin, UA 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gina Thomas: Unadapted , in: FAZ , February 13, 2016, p. 12
  2. ↑ derwesten.de
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung 2001
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung 2004
  5. ^ Information from the theater.
  6. ↑ Life sentence, with subsequent torture detention in FAZ of November 27, 2013, page 30
personal data
SURNAME Crimp, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English playwright
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Dartford , Kent