Roy Kift
Roy Kift (born January 30, 1943 in Bideford , Devon ) is a British writer .
Life
Roy Kift studied Romance Studies at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth ; he graduated in 1964 with the academic degree BA . From 1965 to 1968 he trained as an actor at the Drama Center London . He then worked as an actor in Sheffield , Newcastle , London and Amsterdam . He has been a full-time writer and translator since 1970 . He is the author of plays , non-fiction and children's books and translates plays, non-fiction, academic books on social and cultural history and exhibition catalogs from German, French and Italian into English.
Until 2014, Roy Kift was married to Dagmar Kift , a doctor of history . They have two daughters together.
Uri Kaufmann and Roy Kift in Essen (2014)
honors and awards
- 1962: 1st Prize from the University of Wales in the Playwrite Competition by Eisteddfod
- 1974: Thames Television Theater Prize for the play Downers
- 1981: 1st prize of the federal working group “Help for the Disabled” for the play Stronger than Superman
- 1984: Prize of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart for the opera libretto Joy
- 1985: Literary grant from the city of Berlin
- 1987: Radio play of the year for painting a battle by Howard Barker (Radio Bremen / SWF / RIAS Berlin, director: Roy Kift)
- 2013: 1st Prize XXIV International Theater Festival "Bez Granic" (Poland / Czech Republic) for Camp Comedy
Works (selection)
Plays
- And Betty Martin ... (1962)
- The Continuing Tale of the Supermale (1968, premiered Sheffield Playhouse 1970)
- Mary Mary (1970, world premiere at the Theater Upstairs, Royal Court Theater, London)
- Genesis (1971, world premiere at the Freehold Theater, London)
- Downers (1974, first performed at Bradford University)
- The Complete Whole Earth Catalog (1976, first performed at Donmar Theater, London)
- Smile for Jesus and the Cameraman (1976, world premiere ICA, London)
- Cakewalk (1976, first performed at Hampstead Theater, London)
- Happy and Glorious (1977, premiered Almost Free Theater, London)
- Land of Hope and Glory (1978, first performed at Theater Royal Stratford East)
- Stronger than Superman (1980, first performance GRIPS Theater, Berlin, translated into 21 languages)
- Joy (1984, opera libretto, composer: Susanne Erding. World premiere: Opernhaus Kiel)
- Dreams of Beating Time (1992)
- Camp Comedy (1996, published in "The Theater of the Holocaust Vol.2" University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. World premiere Legnica, Poland September 2012. Invited to the Warsaw Theatertreffen, April 2013)
- Cathedral of Misbelief (2005)
- The True Story of Adam and Eve (2011, also in English)
- Eden's Garden (2014. On Jan Karski and the British betrayal of Poland in World War II)
- The Clearing (2019)
travel Guide
- Tour the Ruhr. The English Language Guide . Klartext Verlag, 4th revised and updated edition, Klartext Verlag , Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88474-815-2
- The Wupper Valley. Wuppertal, Solingen, Remscheid and the Bergisch Land. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89861-520-4
- Düsseldorf, Aachen and the Lower Rhine. The English Language Guide . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-892-2
- The Complete Ruhr Area. The English Language Guide. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2018 ISBN 978-3-8375-1876-4
Children's books
- Franz, Anna and the mining ghosts . (Illustrations: Lajos Herpai). Klartext Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 978-3-88474-608-0
Theater studies
- Getting to Grips with children's theater . In: Theater Quarterly 10, No. 39, 1981
- Hoping for the Unexpected: The Theater of Peter Zadek . In: New Theater Quarterly 1, 1985
- Illusion and Reality in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp . In: New Theater Quarterly 12, 1996
- Reality and Illusion in the Theresienstadt Cabaret . In: Claude Schumacher (ed.): Staging the Holocaust. The Shoah in drama and performance , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-62415-2 , pp. 147-168
- Singing in the Face of Death. A Study of Jewish Cabaret and Opera during the Holocaust . In: Rebecca Rovit / Alvin Goldberg (ed.): Theatrical Performance in the Holocaust. Texts, documents, memoirs . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore et al. a. 1999, ISBN 0-8018-6167-5 , pp. 125-132
Editing
- Europe ... a poem. A German / English catalog and source collection . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0275-6
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kift, Roy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bideford , Devon |