Burns

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Data
Title: Burns
Original title: Incendies
Genus: drama
Original language: French
Author: Wajdi Mouawad
Publishing year: 2003
Place and time of the action: Canada in the 2000s and the Middle East (Lebanon) in the 1950s to 1980s
people
  • Jeanne Marwan
  • Simon Marwan
  • Nawal Marwan
  • Alphonse Lebel
  • Abou Tarek

Burns (original title Incendies ) is a play by Wajdi Mouawad from 2003. Parts of the story are based on the life story of Souha Bechara .

action

Nawal's mother in a production at the Lise-Guèvremont Theater in Montreal (2012)

After the death of their mother, the twin children Jeanne and Simon set out to find their father and brother. The mother never said much about herself and five years before her death she fell silent to the incomprehension of the children. Jeanne begins to reconstruct her mother's life in a country in the Middle East that is alien to her and marked by the horrors of decades of civil war .

Productions in German-speaking countries

Uli Menke translated the text from the French-Canadian. The German premiere took place on October 13, 2006 at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen and the State Theater Nuremberg in a production by Georg Schmiedleitner .

The Austrian premiere was on September 28, 2007 at the Vienna Academy Theater . For this, director Stefan Bachmann received the Nestroy Theater Prize in 2008 .

A theater production directed by Lydia Bunk at Euro-Studio Landgraf received the Inthega-Preis “Neuberin” 2011 on October 17th, 2011.

The piece was adapted as a radio play in 2009 in cooperation with Hessischer Rundfunk and Deutschlandfunk . In October 2009 it was the radio play of the month . Directed by Ulrich Gerhardt .

filming

Based on the piece, Denis Villeneuve filmed the material in 2010 with Lubna Azabal , Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin , Maxim Gaudette and Rémy Girard in the leading roles.

The film was nominated for the Oscar 2011 in the category Best Foreign Language Film .

Print edition

  • Wajdi Mouawad: Burns. From the French-Canadian by Uli Menke. Publishing house of the authors, 2007, ISBN 3886612996 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nestroy prizes awarded in Vienna. In: The press. November 20, 2008, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ burns . In: stadthalle.balingen.de, accessed on March 28, 2018.
  3. ^ Brian Brooks: Oscars 2011: "Incendies" Director Denis Villeneuve . In: indiewire.com, accessed March 28, 2018.