Tankred Dorst

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Tankred Dorst (born December 19, 1925 in Oberlind , Sonneberg district , Thuringia ; † June 1, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German playwright and writer . Since his student days he lived in Munich-Schwabing for a long time , where he began in the 1950s to write time-critical pieces for the puppet theater Kleines Spiel , some of which are still performed today. From the 1960s onwards he became known internationally for his scripts and as a director . From 2013 he lived in Berlin with his wife Ursula Ehler-Dorst .

Life

Tankred Dorst grew up in a wealthy Oberlinder middle class family who owned the local machine factory, formerly Georg Dorst . From high school he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1943 as a student and into the Wehrmacht in 1944 . After a short period of training, he came to the Western Front as a soldier and was taken prisoner there . He experienced the end of the Second World War in prison camps in England and the USA . When he was released from captivity in West Germany at the end of 1947 , Oberlind and Sonneberg had been part of the Soviet occupation zone for two years . The machine factory had been expropriated and the family fled to relatives in West Germany from further reprisals.

Tankred Dorst made up his Abitur in Lüdinghausen and began studying philology and art history in Bamberg in 1950 . In 1951 he moved to Munich , where he also studied theater studies until 1959 . He gained practical experience in writing plays and in theater work at the student puppet studio "Das kleine Spiel", for which he wrote six puppet pieces until 1959.

The first major theater plays were successfully staged in Lübeck and Mannheim in 1960 . He continued this success until the end in a large number of stage works and some film adaptations in front of an international audience. In 1963 he was accepted as a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . From 1971 he was a member of the PEN Center Germany . While working on the television film Sand , he met Ursula Ehler , who accompanied him through his life and work as a partner and co-author from the early 1970s . From the mid-1970s onwards, he edited almost all publications together with his wife.

He also received increasing attention abroad. So he received z. B. 1973 visiting professorships in Australia and New Zealand . In 1973, together with Martin Gregor-Dellin , Jürgen Kolbe , Michael Krüger , Fritz Arnold, Paul Wühr , Inge Poppe , Christoph Buggert , Günter Herburger and Peter Laemmle, he founded the first cooperatively organized author's bookstore in Munich . In 1978 he was appointed a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and in 1983 he was accepted into the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz . In 1992 he co-founded the Bonn Biennale . After that he was also part of the artistic direction of this theater festival, which from 2004 onwards took place primarily at the Wiesbaden State Theater under the name New Plays from Europe . In the 2003/2004 winter semester he took on the Frankfurt poetics lectureship at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main under the title To practice yourself in the earthly .

Dorst re-staged Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Richard Wagner Festival 2006 in Bayreuth . He jumped in for the Danish film director Lars von Trier , who had returned the direction in 2004. The German playwright, who directed an opera for the first time at the age of 78, was one of the most frequently played authors on German-speaking stages in the post-war period.

Dorst died on June 1, 2017 at the age of 91. His grave is in the church cemetery of St. Georg in Munich-Bogenhausen.

Tankred Dorst grave, Bogenhausener Friedhof, Munich.

Works

Dramas

Puppet theater

  • 1953 and 1964: Aucassin and Nicolette
  • 1954 Rhampsinit or the extraordinary difficulty of getting hold of a thief
  • 1956: Eugene. A strange story
  • 1957: La Ramée
  • 1958: Felis Caligatus (after Ludwig Tieck );
  • 1959: A Trumpet for Nap
  • 1961: Maipu's Temptation or The Rewarded Loyalty

Edits for the stage

Film adaptations

  • 1960: The curve (TV film, director: Peter Zadek)
  • 1969: Rotmord (TV film based on Toller , director: Peter Zadek)
  • 1971: Sand (TV film, director: Peter Palitzsch)
  • 1975: Ice Age (feature film, director: Peter Zadek)
  • 1976: Dorothea Merz (two-part television film, director: Peter Beauvais )
  • 1978: Klara's mother (TV film under own direction)
  • 1980: Mosch (TV film under own direction)
  • 1983: Eisenhans (feature film in own direction)

Libretti

  • 1960: La Buffonata . Ballet Chanté. Music: Wilhelm Killmayer . First performance 1961 Heidelberg (Städtische Bühnen), director: H. Neugebauer
  • 1962/63: Yolimba or the limits of magic . Musical farce. Music: Wilhelm Killmayer. First performance 1964 Wiesbaden ( Hessisches Staatstheater ), director: H. Neugebauer
  • 1969: The story of Aucassin and Nicolette . Opera. Music: Günter Bialas . World premiere 1969 Munich (Bavarian State Opera)
  • 2001: The legend of poor Heinrich . Opera. Music: Ernst August Klötzke. World premiere 2011 Wiesbaden (Hessisches Staatstheater), musical direction: Enrico Delamboye, director: Iris Gerath-Prein

Plays for children

  • 1982: Ameley, the beaver and the king on the roof ; World premiere at the Burgtheater Vienna, director: PM Preissler
  • 1994: How Dilldapp went after the giant ; World premiere at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, director: Götz Loepelmann
  • 2000: Don't eat little Charlie! First performance at the Royal National Theater London / First performance in Germany as Don't eat me just my little Karl! at the Städtische Bühnen Heidelberg, directed by WM Bauer
  • 2000: King Sofus and the Wonder Chicken ; World premiere at the Thalia Theater Halle , director: P. Mader

Prose pieces

  • 1957: Secret of the Marionette ; 1. Publication
  • 1959: On a small stage - experiment with puppets ; Essays
  • 1962: The stage is the absolute place ; essay
  • 1964: Editor of the collection theater
  • 1976: Dorothea Merz ; Fragmentary novel
  • 1978: Klara's mother ; narrative
  • 1980: Mosch ; The book about the film
  • 1984: The trip to Stettin ; narrative
  • 1985: Volume 1 of the work edition appears
  • 1986: grind head ; Libretto for actors
  • 1986: The Naked Man ; Prose text
  • 2000: I want to try to describe Kupsch ; Artist book in the Raamin-Presse Roswitha Quadflieg
  • 2001: The joy of life. Kupsch ; Pieces and materials, edition suhrkamp theater series
  • 2001: Merlin's Magic ; Suhrkamp publishing house
  • 2002: Othoon. Pieces and materials ; edition suhrkamp theater series
  • 2009: happiness is a temporary state of weakness ; narrative
  • 2010: I should try to play the imaginary sick person

Radio plays

Work edition

Published by Suhrkamp in Frankfurt, 1985 to 2008

Scholarships and Awards

literature

  • Horst Laube (ed.): Work book about Tankred Dorst. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1974, ISBN 3-518-00713-0
  • Günther Erken (Ed.): Tankred Dorst . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1989, ISBN 3-518-38573-9
  • Ioana Craciun: Historical poets in contemporary German drama. Studies of plays by Tankred Dorst, Günter Grass, Martin Walser and Peter Weiss. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, 2008. In it: "The first socialist Jesus of Nazareth". On the figure of Ernst Tollers in Tankred Dorst's revolutionary drama 'Toller', pp. 69–100; "I am a child of the revolution." On the figure of Heinrich Heine in Tankred Dorst's play 'Harrys Kopf', pp. 245–275.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tankred Dorst died at 91. In: RP-online. June 1, 2017, accessed June 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Tankred Dorst  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 11, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.adwmainz.de  
  3. ↑ theodor-frey.de: Bogenhauser cemetery
  4. ↑ billiongraves.de: Tankred-Dorst
  5. ↑ Life is a conversation with a certain outcome in FAZ from June 10, 2016, page 13
  6. ^ Marionettentheater Kleines Spiel, Munich »Chronicle of the productions. Retrieved October 17, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ ludwig-muelheims-theaterpreis.de: Tankred Dorst awarded the 1,991th Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  8. ^ Report on the award on the website of the University of Bamberg
personal data
SURNAME Dorst, Tankred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlind , Sonneberg District , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2017
Place of death Berlin