Peter Greiner

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Peter Greiner (* 20th April 1939 in Rudolstadt / Thuringia; † 11. December 2019 in Boltersen ) was a German stage and radio play writer .

Life

Peter Greiner began studying chemistry in Freiburg in 1959. From 1963 he studied chemistry and mathematics in Hamburg for teaching at grammar schools. In 1966 he passed his state examination, but only worked as a teacher for a while. He has been a freelance writer since 1970. He made a living from doing odd jobs at times. In doing so, according to a self-assessment, he was “pretty much at the edge of society, was pretty broken. Standing on the sidelines then leads to solidarity between people who are broken. And through this solidarity I got my material. ”In 1977 he received a Suhrkamp scholarship. For a long time his pieces were considered an insider tip, but were initially rarely played because of their form and subject matter. In 1981 his play Kiez was performed at the Berlin Festival , and in the same year he received the renowned Mülheim Dramatist Prize . Greiner lives very withdrawn, he always refused to be photographed.

Working and reception

Greiner created a dozen plays within a decade. Most of them are about socially marginalized and underprivileged people, their lack of perspective and the inability to find their way around. Orfeus is the story of a boy who goes off track, becomes a criminal and stylizes himself as a freedom fighter in a police state. In the play Fast a Prolet an ensemble of run-down and burned-out people of all kinds plays in a pub. Greiner's people are all injured, damaged, have given up and dream of entering bourgeois society. The Beethoven Roll over Beethoven 's only a tyrant against the courtly etiquette of Vienna, even Mayakovsky in Lady Liljas Hauer has spread a hunted, one of only noise and voltage.

Greiner uses jargon and dialect in his plays, his images provoke puns and dramatic outbursts of temperament, and Die Zeit wrote in 1978 that Greiner's plays were not played enough and that there was a “subordinate fear of theaters of embarrassment”. At the end of the 1970s Greiner's theatrical works were still highly praised by national theater critics. He was “the showcase radical for a few years” , but his bulky texts, which sometimes seem like a “random jumble of notes” , have not caught on in the theater; Today other aesthetic forms determine contemporary drama, and Greiner has stopped writing plays.

Numerous radio plays were written parallel to his plays. Schwarzer Schnee was staged at Radio Bremen under the direction of Peter Michel Ladiges with Christian Brückner and Friedrich W. Bauschulte , The show must go on , directed by Gerlach Fiedler , was named radio play of the month in August 1977 .

neighbourhood

Greiner's most important work, Kiez , was created in 1975. This play has 45 scenes with almost as many sets. The text was published in 1976 by Suhrkamp in Spectaculum 25 and in 1977 in Theater heute , but it was not premiered until 1980 in Cologne. The Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg had previously announced a world premiere several times, but in the end did not dare to tackle the topic. In 1981 the play was performed at the Berlin Festival and received the “Mülheim Dramatist Prize”. It is about the story of a former seaman and current pimp who sends several women on the line. With one, however, he tries to start a civil life, but fails. Run down as a bum and hunted by former pals, he eventually seeks refuge in a safe prison cell. It is an "outsider romance and a highly realistic piece because it understands and loves its characters as 'heroes', but never withholds the misery of this heroic and outsider existence." The performances were in all national newspapers as well as by Hellmuth Karasek im Mirror discussed. Kiez was filmed in 1983 based on a script by Hans Eppendorfer with Katja Rupé and directed by Walter Bockmayer .

Awards

Works

Plays

  • How bomber Charly live ... social behavior. Stories and scenes. Edition Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1986. ISBN 3-518-11356-9
  • The peat drivers. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1983 (world premiere: Munich 1985)
  • Shut down. One-act playbook. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • The empire's grit can. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Altenlenz. One act. Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Almost a proletarian. 3 pieces. (Contains: Four Seasons Blues. First performance: Saarbrücken 1980). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1978. ISBN 3-518-02947-9
  • Almost a proletarian. A folk piece. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1978 (world premiere: Freiburg / Br. 1980. Director: Hermann Treusch )
  • Lady Lilja's tusks. A two-person game. Frankfurt am Main 1978 (world premiere: Heidelberg 1978)
  • Roll over Beethoven. A true ear tragedy in pictures. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main (world premiere: Basel 1978)
  • Turkish crescent. A guest worker piece in pictures. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977 (world premiere: Bremen 1979; also radio play)
  • Orfeus. Biography of a young man. In: Spectaculum. Vol. 29. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977 (world premiere: Freiburg / Br. 1978)
  • Swept . Musical based on Wedekind's Spring Awakening (world premiere: Zurich 1976)
  • Neighbourhood. A non-bourgeois tragedy about crook honor and crook cold. In: Spectaculum. Vol. 25. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1976. ISBN 978-3-518-09088-6

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1971: All roads again, ( Radio Bremen )
  • 1973: Anesthesia colony, ( RIAS , begin with Ortrud )
  • 1977: The show must go on, ( NDR )
  • 1979: Black Snow, (Radio Bremen)
  • 1980: Four Seasons Blues, (RIAS)
  • 1981: Little Freedom, (NDR)
  • 1983: Blaumann and blue tit, ( WDR )
  • 1986: Jonah under the eucalyptus tree, hearing the voice of God, ( SFB )

Quote

  • “Anne: I also have concerns with car free customers and profits. You know that I'm only ambitious at 500 marks and above. Knut: But I'm in conflict: hunted from below and from above. Soon I'll only have the grass to bite into with this enclosure! "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We mourn Peter Greiner. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Handbook of contemporary German literature since 1945. Munich 1990, p. 240
  3. ↑ https://www.landeszeitung.de/blog/lokales/2690188-peter-greiner
  4. ^ The time of September 29, 1978
  5. ↑ Wend Kässens in: Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature
  6. ↑ Ibid
  7. ^ The time of September 29, 1978
  8. ↑ Benjamin Heinrichs: Prolet and Orpheus in the underworld. A portrait of the author Peter Greiner
  9. ↑ E.g. in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 21, 1980, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 19, 1980, Frankfurter Rundschau of May 22, 1980, Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 19, 1980 and Die Zeit of May 23, 1980
  10. ↑ Quoted from: Kiez. Frankfurt / M. 1975
personal data
SURNAME Greiner, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudolstadt , State of Thuringia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2019
Place of death Boltersen