Michael Frayn

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Michael Frayn , FRSL , (born September 8, 1933 in London , England ) is a British writer .

Life

While serving in the army, Frayn was trained as a military interpreter in the Russian language . In 1954 he began his French and Russian studies at Emmanuel College at Cambridge University , but switched to philosophy ( moral sciences ) after a year . After graduating in 1957, he was a reporter and columnist for the Manchester Guardian (1957–62) and the Observer (1962–68). Since then he has been working as a freelance writer. He is a successful playwright and novelist.

Act

Frayn wrote the Farce Noises off (1982), which was filmed in 1992 with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve and directed by Peter Bogdanovich . In 1998 Copenhagen was published , a play about a conversation between the two atomic physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg . Copenhagen became a great international success, received the Tony Award and the Prix ​​Molière , among others, and sparked a historical debate beyond theater circles about Heisenberg's role in the Third Reich's nuclear program , the so-called uranium project .

In 2003, Democracy was followed by a play about Willy Brandt and the Guillaume affair , for which Frayn was again awarded the Evening Standard Prize and the Critics Circle Award after Copenhagen . The German premiere took place on May 6, 2004 in the Berlin Renaissance Theater .

His latest work Afterline premiered at the London National Theater in 2008. The play about theater director and actor Max Reinhardt had its German premiere on March 18, 2010 under the title Reinhardt in the Alten Schauspielhaus Stuttgart .

Michael Frayn is also known for his Chekhov translations into English. Michael Frayn is a second married to the English literary critic Claire Tomalin.

Honors (selection)

Works

Novels

  • 1965 The Tin Men.
  • 1966 The Russian Interpreter.
    • Two British in Moscow. German by Renate Sommer; GB Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • 1968 Towards the End of the Morning.
  • 1968 A Very Private Life.
  • 1973 Sweet Dreams.
  • 1989 The Trick of It.
    • How does she do it? German by Sabine Hübner; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-498-02066-8 .
  • 1991 A Landing on the Sun.
    • Sun landing. German by Irmela Erckenbrecht; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-498-02072-2 .
  • 1993 Now You Know.
    • Now you know. German by Sabine Hübner; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-13434-9 .
  • 1999 headlong.
  • 2002 Spies.
    • The spy game. German by Matthias Fienbork; Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-446-20455-5 .
  • 2012 Skios.

Stage plays

(DSE = German-language premiere)

  • 1970 The Two of Us (four one-act plays: Black and Silver , Mr. Foot , Chinamen , The New Quixote )
    • We two, German by Ursula Fisser
  • 1977 Alphabetical Order
    • In alphabetical order, German by Ursula Liederwald and Christian Ferber
  • 1977 Donkeys' Years
    • All Jubeljahre, German by Michael Raab, DSE: Renaissance-Theater Berlin, December 2, 2006
  • 1977 Clouds
    • Clouds, German by Ursula Lyn
  • 1978 The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov translation)
  • 1980 Make or Break
    • The maker, German by Heinz Fischer and Ursula Lyn
  • 1982 Noises Off
    • The naked madness, German by Ursula Lyn
  • 1983 Three Sisters (Chekhov translation)
  • 1984 Benefactors
    • Benefactor, German by Ursula Lyn and Nina Adler
  • 1984 Wild Honey (Chekhov translation, revision by Platonow )
    • Wilder Honig, German by Ursula Lyn and Andreas Pegler
  • 1986 The Seagull (Chekhov translation)
  • 1986 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov translation)
  • 1987 Balmoral
  • 1989 First and Last
  • 1990 Exchange ( Trifonov translation)
  • 1990 look look
  • 1990 Listen to This (skits and monologues)
  • 1990 Jamie on a Flying Visit and Birthday
  • 1991 audience
  • 1993 Here
    • Here, German by Ursula Lyn and Saskia Wesnigk
  • 1995 La Belle Vivette (based on Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène )
  • 1995 Now You Know
  • 1998 Alarms and Excursions: More Plays than One
    • Ping Pong, German by Ursula Lyn
  • 1998 Copenhagen
  • 2003 Democracy
    • Democracy , German by Michael Raab; DSE: Renaissance Theater Berlin May 2004
  • 2008 afterlife
    • Reinhardt, German by Michael Raab

script

philosophy

  • 1974 Constructions
  • 2006 The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe.

journalism

  • 1962 The Day of the Dog (article from The Guardian)
  • 1963 The Book of Fub (article from The Guardian)
  • 1964 On the Outskirts (article from The Observer)
  • 1967 At Bay in Gear Street (article from The Observer)
  • 1995 Speak After the Beep: Studies in the Art of Communicating with Inanimate and Semi-animate Objects (article from The Guardian)

Non-fiction

  • 2000 (with David Burke ) Celia's Secret: An Investigation.
    • Celia's secret: the Copenhagen papers. German by Anna Leube; Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2001. ISBN 3-446-19907-1 .
  • 2008 Stage Directions: Writing on Theater, 1970–2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Frayn's Copenhagen in Debate (English)
  2. ^ Christine Clausen: play: Caught in the suction of suspicion . May 7, 2004 star
  3. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
  4. ^ Book of Members
personal data
SURNAME Frayn, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH London