Tony Kushner

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Tony Kushner (born July 16, 1956 in Manhattan , New York City , New York ) is an American screenwriter and writer .

Life

Tony Kushner was born on July 16, 1956 to a Jewish family in Manhattan. His parents, William Kushner and Sylvia (German) Kushner, both musicians, moved to Lake Charles , Louisiana , shortly after he was born . In 1974 he moved to New York to study at Columbia University . There he did a bachelor's degree in English literature . Since 1989 he has been a guest artist in the Graduate Theater Program at New York University as well as at Yale University and Princeton University . From 1990 to 1992 he was Playwright-in-residence at the Juilliard School of Drama in New York.

His best-known play is the controversial two-part work Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) and Angels in America: Perestroika (1994), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play. 2003 TV miniseries was based on the play Angels in America by Mike Nichols , among others, with Al Pacino , Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson . He got an Emmy for the script .

In 2004 the opera Angels in America by Péter Eötvös had its successful premiere in Paris . Other stage pieces are “Slavs”, “Homebody / Kabul” and “Carolin, or Change”. His work, long titled The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and socialism with a Key to the Scriptures , was performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA in 2009 . An abridged version of Intellectual Homosexual's Guide was played in 2011 in New York City and in January 2012 at the National Theater in Mannheim with the title Counselor for the intelligent homosexual .

In 2005 he wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's film Munich, for which he received an Oscar nomination. In 2012 the two worked together again at Lincoln .

In 2003, Kushner married his longtime partner, Mark Harris, editor of Entertainment Weekly .

Awards

further reading

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit), Volume 81, 1994.
  • Harold Bloom, ed .: Tony Kushner , New York, Chelsea House, 2005.
  • Per K. Brask, ed .: Essays on Kushner's Angels , Winnipeg, Blizzard Publishing, 1995.
  • James Fisher: The Theater of Tony Kushner , London, Routledge, 2002.
  • James Fisher, ed .: Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of His Plays , London, McFarland & Company, 2006.
  • Deborah R. Geis, Steven F. Kruger: Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America , University of Michigan Press, 1997.
  • Ricarda Klüßendorf: “ The Great Work Begins”. Tony Kushner's Theater for Change in America , Trier, WVT, 2007.
  • Ingar Solty : Tony Kushner's American Angel of History , in: The Argument - Journal for Philosophy and Social Sciences , Volume 47, No. 265, Issue 2/2006, pp. 209–225 ( PDF )
  • Anthony Lioi: The Great Work Begins: Theater as Theurgy in Angels in America , in CrossCurrents, Fall 2004, Vol. 54, No 3

Appreciations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Make me the tough communist! in: FAZ from January 25, 2012, page 32
  2. ↑ New York Times: WEDDINGS / CELEBRATIONS: VOWS; Mark Harris and Tony Kushner
  3. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kushner, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York City, New York, United States