playwright

A playwright , also a playwright called, is a writer who plays ( plays written).

Some playwrights have focused on certain theater genres , such as comedy (comedy writer) or tragedy (tragedy writer ).

Sometimes subjects from narrative literature are brought onto the stage after they have been edited by theater authors ( dramatization ). Examples are the arrangements of Karl May's works for the Karl May Games on various stages.

Theaters acquire the right to put a certain play by a playwright into a stage work, either abridged or unabridged. The theater director has the task of bringing the text onto the stage as an act. Sometimes this is done by the author himself.

literature

• Alo Allkemper and Norbert Otto Eke (eds.): German dramatists of the 20th century . Verlag Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-503-06149-5 .
• Jochanan Trilse-Finkelstein , Klaus Hammer: Lexikon Theater International . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-180-6 .

See also

• Drama
• List of famous playwrights
  • List of German-speaking dramatists
  • List of English playwrights
  • List of Irish playwrights
• Dramaturge

Web links

Wiktionary: Dramatists  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Commons : Playwright  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files