Peter Turrini

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Peter Turrini (born September 26, 1944 in Sankt Margarethen im Lavanttal ) is an Austrian writer . He is known for his socially critical and, especially in his early works, provocative folk plays .

biography

Peter Turrini is the son of the Italian cabinet maker Ernesto Turrini and the Styrian domestic worker Else Turrini, née Reßler. He grew up in Maria Saal in Carinthia . Through the Tonhof of the singer Maja Weis-Ostborn and the composer Gerhard Lampersberg he came into contact with representatives of the Viennese avant-garde early on . From 1963 to 1971 he worked in various professions, including as a magazine writer at Huber-Trikot, as a copywriter for an American agency, as a hotel secretary in Bibione , and as an unskilled worker in Neuwied am Rhein . In 1967/68 he lived in Rhodes . He has lived as a freelance writer since 1971. In 2005 he was elected a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

His current place of residence is Kleinriedenthal near Retz . He writes plays, scripts, poems, essays and speeches. His works have been translated into many languages ​​and his plays are performed worldwide.

Peter Turrini was best known for Rozznjogd (1971), Sauschlachten (1972) and the television series Alpensaga (1974–1979). In his first two works he used dialect, but in the minor performers he used an artful “high” language. Turrini took part in innumerable author readings; so also often on the Left Word , an author reading with political accents, which was carried out as part of the annual Volksstimmefest . Together with Helmut Qualtinger and H. C. Artmann , he went on a reading tour of several weeks at American universities. Peter Turrini is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly . In the run-up to the occupation of the Hainburger Au in 1984, Turrini was one of the participants in the press conference of the animals and appeared as a " fire-bellied toad ".

In 2005 he was seen in the role of a conductor in the crime scene The Sleeping Beauty .

To date there have been thirty-six plays, three opera libretti, fifty-five book editions, fourteen screenplays, seventeen radio plays, as well as phonograph records and CDs.

Work overview

  • 1967 Rozznjogd. Based on motifs by Willard Manus . First performance on January 22, 1971 in the Vienna Volkstheater .
  • 1971 ear plugs or peace to the ears. Radio play . Posted on February 10, 1971, Austria 1.
  • 1971 Zero, Zero. A feat. First performance on May 22, 1971 as part of the Wiener Festwochen in the Theater an der Wien .
  • 1972 pig fights. A folk piece. World premiere on January 15, 1972 in the Werkraumtheater of the Münchner Kammerspiele .
  • 1972 The greatest day. Play. Freely based on Beaumarchais . World premiere on February 26, 1972 in the Landestheater Darmstadt.
  • 1972 Experiences in the oral cavity. Novel.
  • 1973 child murder. Play. First performance on March 10, 1973 in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
  • 1973 The landlady. Play. Loosely based on the comedy La locandiera by Goldoni . First performance on November 24, 1973 in the Nuremberg theater.
  • 1974 Phonoptical. Terror. Heil Dir. World premiere on June 16, 1974 on the Villach studio stage.
  • 1974 to 1979 Alpine saga . TV multi-part in six parts. Together with Dieter Berner .
  • 1977 The farmer and the millionaire . TV movie.
  • 1978 reading book one. Pieces, pamphlets, films, reactions.
  • 1980 Alpine saga . Three volumes.
  • 1980 A few steps back. Poems.
  • 1980 Joseph and Mary. Play. First performance on November 8, 1980 as part of the Steirischer Herbst festival as a guest performance by the Vienna Volkstheater.
  • 1981 The citizens . Play. First performance on January 27, 1981 in the Vienna Volkstheater.
  • 1982 Campiello. Play. Loosely based on Goldoni . First performance on September 26th in the Vienna Volkstheater.
  • 1983 reading book two. Pieces, films, poems, reactions.
  • 1984 shortness of breath . Motion pictures. Script: Peter Turrini. Director: Käthe Kratz .
  • 1986 It's a good country. Texts on occasions.
  • 1987 Faust III. A comedy, partly partly. First performance on December 3rd, 1987 in the Theater Nero in the Theater im Künstlerhaus in Vienna.
  • 1988 The minor performers. A drama. First performance on June 1, 1988 in the Vienna Academy Theater.
  • 1988 My Austria. Speeches, polemics, essays.
  • 1988 to 1990 The workers saga . TV multi-part in four parts. Together with Rudi Palla and Dieter Berner .
  • 1990 death and the devil. A colportage. World premiere on November 10, 1990 in the Burgtheater Vienna .
  • 1993 Alpenglow. One piece. World premiere on February 17, 1993 in the Burgtheater in Vienna.
  • 1993 Grillparzer in the porn shop. Based on the piece Love Boutique by Willard Manus . World premiere on February 20, 1993 in the Berliner Ensemble .
  • 1993 In the name of love. Poems.
  • 1995 The battle for Vienna. Play in three acts. World premiere on May 13, 1995 in the Burgtheater Vienna .
  • 1996 Dear murderers! About the present, the theater and about God. Prose.
  • 1997 Finally over. A monologue. World premiere on June 7, 1997 at the Vienna Academy Theater.
  • 1998 Love in Madagascar play. World premiere on April 3, 1998 at the Vienna Academy Theater.
  • 1999 a crazy dream. Reading book one.
  • 1999 The opposite is true. Reading book two.
  • 1999 I'm only at home here: at the theater. Reading book three.
  • 1999 death and the devil. Opera. Music by Gerd Kühr . Libretto by Peter Turrini. World premiere on September 17, 1999 in the Graz Opera.
  • 2000 casino. A dance game. Performance on January 21, 2000 in the casino on Schwarzenbergplatz.
  • 2000 The opening. Play. First performance on October 21, 2000 in the Schauspielhaus Bochum .
  • 2001 The arrest of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy . Motion pictures.
  • 2001 I love this country. Play. First performance on December 7, 2001 in the Berliner Ensemble .
  • 2002 The giant from Steinfeld. Opera. Music: Friedrich Cerha . Libretto: Peter Turrini. First performance on June 15, 2002 in the Vienna State Opera .
  • 2002 Da Ponte in Santa Fe. One piece. World premiere on July 29, 2012 at the Salzburg Festival.
  • 2005 When it got dark. Play. World premiere on January 14, 2006 in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
  • 2006 My Nestroy. Play. First performance on September 14, 2006 in the Theater in der Josefstadt .
  • 2007 to each his own. Folk operetta. Together with Silke Hassler. Music: Roland Neuwirth . World premiere on March 8, 2007 in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
  • 2007 The servant of two masters. Play based on Carlo Goldoni . First performance on November 15, 2007 in the Theater in der Josefstadt .
  • 2009 the blue angel. Play based on the novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann and the film Der Blaue Engel by Josef von Sternberg . World premiere on August 19, 2009 at the Bregenz Festival .
  • 2010 Campiello. Opera. Music: Herwig Reiter. Libretto: Peter Turrini. World premiere on April 29, 2010, Neue Oper Wien, in the Anker-Expedit-Halle.
  • 2011 New Years Eve. Play. World premiere on January 8, 2011 in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt .
  • 2012 The giant from Steinfeld. Play. German-language premiere on September 7, 2012 in the Volkstheater Vienna .
  • 2013 For love. Play. First performance on May 16, 2013 in the Theater in der Josefstadt .
  • 2013 Sometimes a pheasant is a duck. Jungbrunnen Publishing House 2013.
  • 2014 C'est la vie - A revue. World premiere on September 19, 2014 in the Theater in der Josefstadt.
  • 2016 Seven seconds of eternity. Play. World premiere on January 12, 2017 in the Theater in der Josefstadt.
  • 2018 guest room. World premiere on January 25, 2018 at the Theater in der Josefstadt.
  • 2018 Rozznjogd, drawn by Gerhard Haderer . Haymon Publishing House . Innsbruck. ISBN 978-3-7099-3415-9
  • 2019 Schubert's Journey to Atzenbrugg - A Libretto. The extra from Verona. The composer Johanna Doderer on the collaboration with Peter Turrini. Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42902-0
  • 2020 Alzheimer's disease is more beautiful together, play, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2020, ISBN 978-3-7099-7930-3
  • 2020 death, burial and transfiguration of Claus Peymann . A stage drama (plays by Peter Turrini in Suhrkamp Theater Verlag) - not yet performed

Speech records and CDs .

  • 1973 Helmut Qualtinger reads texts by Peter Turrini. Clay collagen: Uzzi Förster . LP. Vienna: It is a good country . Preiser Records.
  • 1975 Peter Turrini reads Rozznjogd . LP. Stuttgart: Intercort Literar Series.
  • 1985 Peter Turrini reads poetry. LP. GIG Records.
  • 1996 Peter Turrini and Kirsten Dene read In the Name of Love . Music: Hans-Georg Koch. CD. Vienna: ORF.
  • 1996 Peter Turrini and Otto Schenk read Helmut Qualtinger. Selection of the texts by Silke Hassler. CD. Vienna: ORF.
  • 1999 Peter Turrini reads Alpenglow . Dramaturgy: Silke Hassler. CD. Vienna: ORF.
  • 2000 Peter Turrini reads The Arrest of Johann Nepomuk Nestroy . CD. Lienz: Waku word.
  • 2000 Peter Turrini reads A few steps back . CD. Lienz: Waku word.
  • 2004 Peter Turrini reads The Opening . CD. Vienna: ORF.
  • 2012 Turrini reads Walla. CD. Vienna: Fabrique Records .
  • 2013 Peter Turrini and Sophie Aujesky read Sometimes a pheasant is a duck . CD. Vienna: ORF.
  • 2014 C'est la vie. A life run. Read by Peter Turrini, Sandra Cervik and Herbert Föttinger . CD. Vienna: ORF.

Secondary literature

  • Wolfgang Schuch, Klaus Siblewski (Eds.): Peter Turrini. Texts, data, images . Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-630-61960-6 (= Luchterhand Collection , Volume 960).
  • Jutta Landa (Ed.): I am too many people. Peter Turrini: playwright, poet, essayist . Ariadne Press, Riverside, CA 1998, ISBN 1-572-41040-X ( English ).
  • Herbert Neubauer (photos), Silke Hassler : masks and face. Peter Turrini in portrait . Essay , Wieser, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-85129-619-8 (= select Europe: literary scene ).
  • Klaus Amann : fighter, artist, fool and citizen. Reader on the Turrini phenomenon . Residenzverlag, Salzburg / St. Pölten 2007. ISBN 978-3-701-73058-2 .
  • Heiner Hammerschlag: The poet and the village . Brochure. Special print Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2010.
  • Arno Rußegger (ed.): A romantic realist . StudienVerlag. Innsbruck 2016. ISBN 978-3-7065-5463-3
  • Christine Grond-Rigler (Ed.): On the international reception of the dramas by Peter Turrini . StudienVerlag. Innsbruck 2016. ISBN 978-3-7065-5525-8
  • Christine Rigler: This comedy is a tragedy: the work and life of the writer Peter Turrini. Biography , Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-7099-3473-9 .

Film portrait

Awards

Peter Turrini ( Nestroy Theater Prize 2011 for his life's work)

Web links

Commons : Peter Turrini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The radio review: Two disappointments. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . February 18, 1971, p. 9, top right.
  2. ↑ Rizzi Award for Peter Turrini. On: ORF.at. November 25, 2014, accessed January 31, 2015.
  3. ↑ orf.at: Literature State Culture Prize for Peter Turrini . Article dated December 14, 2017, accessed December 14, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Turrini, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Margarethen in Lavanttal