Peter Terson

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Peter Terson , actually Peter Patterson, (born February 16, 1932 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ) is a British playwright .

Life

Peter Terson attended the Redland Teacher Training College in Bristol from 1956 to 1958 and worked for ten years as a physical education and history teacher in a school near Littleton , Wychavon District , Worcestershire , where he also carried out theater projects with his students. He then became a freelance writer and, in addition to plays that first premiered in the Midlands in Stoke-on-Trent , he also wrote for radio and television, which then also hired him as a series writer . He took up topics such as football hooliganism , violence in schools and hormone poisoning from meat consumption at an early stage . His socially realistic works, seen in the Angry Young Men tradition of the 1950s, were performed on stage and broadcast on television, particularly in the 1970s. His play Strippers made it onto the entertainment stages of London's West End in the 1980s .

Zigger Zagger

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the German-language premiere of the youth play Zigger Zagger was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen by the Heidelberg City Theaters in 1969 . It caused a veritable theater scandal in Heidelberg in the 1968s , as the director Hans Neuenfels let the soccer hooligans on the O Haupt stage roar full of blood and wounds and the German national anthem , each time modified in the text. In addition to fifty Heidelberg students, the actors included Elisabeth Trissenaar , Lore Stefanek , Ulrich Wildgruber and Gottfried John . Terson's “benign” play was written for the amateur theater National Youth Theater London, which showed it in 1968 at the Berliner Festwochen . In the original version, the national anthem was corrupted with “God Save Our Gracious Team” , while the German version from Heidelberg read “Football, football above everything” .

Pieces (selection)

  • A night that the angels cry , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1967 ( A Night to Make the Angels Weep , 1964. "New English Dramatists 11", Penguin, London, 1967)
  • The Mighty Reservoy , 1964. New English Dramatists Vol. 14, Penguin, London, 1970. Het Machtig reservoir (1974) (TV)
  • Mooney's Wohnwagen , Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1970 ( Mooney and his caravans , 1966. Penguin Plays)
  • The Ballad of the Artificial Mash , 1967
  • Zig-zag . Program booklet, Theater Bremen, Bremen 1968 ( Zigger Zagger , 1967. Penguin, London, 1970)
  • Moby Dick , adaptation, 1972
  • Strippers , Nyssen & Bansemer, Cologne 1986 ( Strippers , 1984. Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1985)

literature

  • Marilyn Ann Craven: The theater of Peter Terson: an examination of the playwright's evolving style, with emphasis on selected plays performed at the Victoria theater, Stoke-on-Trent , Thesis University of Toronto 1977

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zicke-Zacke and the consequences , Die Zeit , May 9, 1969. “The play (as you know, written for a London youth stage and developed from it) is neither particularly ingenious nor particularly sharp in criticism and screening, it has not a lot of humor and not a lot of imagination - it's just interesting as a contribution to what is. "
  2. ↑ Botho Strauss : Measure for mass. Peter Terson's "Zicke Zacke" in Heidelberg and Bremen , Theater heute , issue 4, 1969, pp. 26-29. Strauss criticized Neuenfels' staging of the "questionable piece" as an aesthetic of effectiveness and refurbished clothes.
  3. ↑ Botho Strauss: Anarchie auf dem Fußballplatz , Theater heute, Heft 11, 1968, p. 22
  4. ↑ Hellmuth Karasek : Scandalous? , Die Zeit , February 28, 1969.
personal data
SURNAME Terson, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British playwright
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle-upon-Tyne