Werner Fritsch
Werner Fritsch (born May 4, 1960 in Waldsassen , Upper Palatinate , Bavaria ) is a German writer .
Life
Werner Fritsch grew up on a desert farm (Hendlmühle near Wondreb, Tirschenreuth district) in the north-eastern Upper Palatinate , far from city life, which he later conquered all the more emphatically with his linguistic works of art. At the Kepler Gymnasium in Weiden id Opf. One of his teachers was the writer Franz Joachim Behnisch , who introduced him to Herbert Achternbusch . Influenced by Achternbusch - he gave the 15-year-old the advice: Take a look at your province - Fritsch has consistently maintained a productive proximity to his native Upper Palatinate.
After high school and basic military service, he devoted himself to action theater / performances as an author, director and actor until 1984 . In 1987 his novel Cherubim was published , which received a lot of attention and prizes (including the Robert Walser Prize 1987). Since then, Fritsch has published numerous prose and theater pieces , radio plays and scripts .
In the 1998/99 season he was Bruno Klimek's “ theater poet ” at the Mannheim National Theater , where two of his plays - Cherubim (1998) and Steinbruch (2000, invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage ) - were premiered.
In recent years, Werner Fritsch has also devoted himself more to teaching, for example he was visiting professor for drama / new media at the Leipzig Institute of Literature for several semesters . Werner Fritsch lives alternately in the Hendlmühle near Wondreb in the Tirschenreuth district and in Berlin . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Awards
- 1987 Prize of the State of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- 1987 Robert Walser Prize for Cherubim
- 1988 Rauris Literature Prize
- 1990 Documentary Film Prize of the SPD at the Documentary Film Festival in Munich
- 1993 Radio Play Prize of the War Blind for Sense
- 1996 Bavarian State Prize for Literature
- 1997 Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize (together with Volker Lüdecke)
- 1999 Prize for the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize
- 2006 radio play of the year for Enigma Emmy Göring
- 2007 ARD radio play award for Enigma Emmy Göring
- 2007 Arno Schmidt grant
- 2012 Sinecure Landsdorf residency scholarship (started 2013)
- 2013 Cross-border commuter scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation
- 2013 Prix Marulić for Faust Sonnengesang
- 2013 Grand Prix Nova for Faust Sonnengesang
- 2014 Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation
- 2016 Bavarian Culture Prize
- 2016 Magdeburg town clerk
Works
- Books
- Nefertiti / The wheel of luck . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42509-1 .
- Nico . Ice sphinx. Monologue. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41633-2 .
- Chroma. Color theory for chameleons (pieces and materials) (= Edition Suhrkamp. Es 3419). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-13419-1 .
- Beyond. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-41121-7 .
- The merry women of Wiesau. Comedy. (Pieces and materials) (= Edition Suhrkamp. Es 3400). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-13400-0 .
- Meat grinder. Battle (= Edition Suhrkamp. Es 1650 = NF 650). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11650-9 .
- Quarry (= Edition Suhrkamp. Es 1554 = NF 554). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-518-11554-5 .
- Cherubim. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-518-02662-3 .
- Radio plays
- 1988 Now - descended into the realm of the dead , director: Norbert Schaeffer , composition: Anima Musica (SDR)
- 1990 Steinbruch Editing and direction: Norbert Schaeffer, Composition: 8Peter Zwetkoff (SDR)
- 1992 Sense , director: Norbert Schaeffer (SWF) ( radio play award of the war blind )
- 1994 Isidor Isidor , director: Norbert Schaeffer. Composition: Jeff Beer (SWF)
- 1994 Seraphim , directed by Norbert Schaeffer (SWF)
- 1999 Jenseits , director: Norbert Schaeffer (SWR)
- 2003 Das Rad des Glücks , directed by Norbert Schaeffer (SWR)
- 2003 Nico - Sphinx made of ice , director: the author (HR / SWR)
- 2005 A beautiful light is burning everywhere , director: Götz Fritsch , composition: Peter Kaizar (WDR / ORF)
- 2006 Enigma Emmy Göring . Director: the author (SWR) ( radio play of the year )
- 2007 The sea rustles and rustles - until it listens , together with Johanna Fritsch, director: the author (HR)
- 2009 This Eye Look (5-part radio play series), directed by the author (RBB) (RBB short radio play award "Kurz und gut")
- 2010 Bach , director: the author, composition: Franz Hummel (SWR)
- 2011 Supermarket together with Uta Ackermann , director: the authors, composition: Franz Wechsler (RBB)
- 2011 Magma , director: the author (HR)
- 2012 Faust Sonnengesang (DLF) ( Prix Marulić )
- 2013 The Parrot People , Czech Radio
- 2014 Aller Seelen , director: the author, composition: Peter Kaizar (ORF / HR)
- 2016 My heart is empty , director: the author, composition: Miki Yui (D-Kultur / RB)
- 2016 Call Me Moses , director: the author, composition: Miki Yui, Albrecht Panknin (HR)
- 2017 Nefertiti , director: the author, composition: Franz Hummel (HR)
- 2017 Čierny Regen Ovídius: Biely Regen Markus Aurélius (The black rain Ovid, the white rain Marc Aurel), director: Natália Deáková, composition: Matúš Homola (Slovak radio rtv)
- 2017 Shakespearova lebka (Shakespear's skull), director: Aleš Vrzák, composition: Jan Trojan (Czech Radio CR)
- Movies
- 1988 These are the thunderstorms in nature (82 min., Bw)
- 1997 Thistles for the Droste (27 min.)
- 1999 labyrinth (12 min.)
- 2000 Chroma Faust Passion (22 min.)
- 2008 I like a bird - The wheel of happiness (90 min.)
- 2010 Faust Sonnengesang I (180 min.)
- 2015 Faust Sonnengesang II (180 min.)
- 2018 Faust Sonnengesang III (180 min.)
- 2020 Faust Sonnengesang IIII (180 min.)
- Plays
- Shakespeare's skull: In Fausts Faust (2016) , premiere: Stadttheater Regensburg November 18, 2016, director: Bernd Liepold-Mosser
- Jean Paul Jetzt , Luisenburg 2013, director: Gerd Lohmeyer
- Everything burns , director: Werner Fritsch, Berliner Theatertreffen: Jubiläums-Stückemarkt 2013
- See the birds of the sky / Regardez les oiseaux du ciel , Theater de la Maufacture. Nancy 2012
- Fire tongues / Langues de feu , Arti e Paroli, Paris 2012, directed by Patrizia Buzzi Barone
- The sun on your tongue , Atonal Theater Cologne 2011, director: Jörg Fürst
- This eyes look , premiere: Schauspiel Bochum 2010, director: Sven Walser
- Paradies , UA Schauspiel Bochum 2009, directed by Clara Topic-Matutin
- Bring me the head of Kurt Cobain , premiere: Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, June 5, 2009, director: Patrick Schimanski
- The Breath of Laotse , Premiere: Schauspielhaus Bochum, May 16, 2007, director: Judith Ittner
- Magma , world premiere: Schauspiel Köln, September 14, 2006, director: Clara Topic-Matutin
- Das Rad des Glücks (2002), premiere: Bavarian State Theater Munich May 12, 2005, director: Werner Fritsch
- Beyond. Monologue , premiere: Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich, March 5, 2004, director: Christian Pade
- Enigma Emmy Göring or Die Schokoladensieten our story (2003), premiere: Staatstheater Darmstadt, February 22nd, 2004, director: Werner Fritsch
- Bach, Traumspiel (2003), premiere: Staatstheater Darmstadt, February 21, 2004, director: Heinz Kreidl
- Fast Lessing , UA: Staatstheater Braunschweig, January 2004
- Heilig Heilig Heilig (2003), premiere: Theater Bielefeld in the season in January 2004, director: Patrick Schimanski
- Hydra Krieg (2002), world premiere: Landestheater Linz, October 18, 2003, director: Gerhard Willert.
- Jenseits - Musiktheater, premiere: Oper Bonn, September 26, 2003, director: Thomas Krupa, music: Zeena Parkins and Elliott Sharp
- Supermarket (together with Uta Ackermann), premiere: Landestheater Schwaben in Memmingen, March 12, 2003, director: Peter Kesten
- Schweik? (2002), premiere: Landestheater Linz, February 14, 2003, director: Gerhart Willert
- Eulen: Spiegel (2001), commissioned work for the Braunschweig State Theater, premiere: Braunschweig State Theater, January 6, 2002, director: Ernst M. Binder
- Nico - Sphinx from Ice (2001), World Premiere: Staatstheater Darmstadt, January 2002, Director: Thomas Krupa
- Chorma. Color theory for chameleons (2000), premiere: Staatstheater Darmstadt, September 2nd, 2000 at the Expo in Hanover, director: Thomas Krupa
- Aller Seele n (2000), premiere: Thalia Theater Hamburg, April 15, 2000, director: Johann Kresnik
- Die Lustigen Weiber von Wiesau (1999), premiere: Deutsches Theater Berlin, January 30, 2000, director: Thomas Langhoff
- Joseph Süss (together with Uta Ackermann) (1998), libretto for an opera by Detlev Glanert, world premiere: Bremer Theater October 13, 1999, director: Tilman Kabe
- Cherubim Monologue (1998), Premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim, December 20, 1998, Director: Christoph Biermeier
- There is no sin in the south of the heart. Höllensturz (1993), premiere: Staatstheater Darmstadt, December 12, 1998, director: Thomas Krupa
- Wondreber Totentanz (1995), world premiere: Staatstheater Darmstadt, January 17th, 1998, director: Thomas Krupa
- Isis Libretto (1996), music: Jeff Beer, premiere: Days of Contemporary Music, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, February 26, 1996
- Gründgens (1995), world premiere: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, April 1, 1995 / Volksbühne Berlin, May 4, 1995, direction and choreography: Johann Kresnik
- Sense (1992), staged reading at the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen 1992, premiere: Schauspiel Bonn, October 9, 1993, director: Werner Fritsch
- Meat grinder. Gefecht (1992), world premiere: Schauspiel Bonn, September 27, 1992, director: Jaroslav Chundela
- Now - Descending into the Realm of the Dead (1992), Premiere : Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen, April 4, 1992, director: André Turnheim
- Steinbruch (1983), staged reading at the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen 1990, premiere: Nationaltheater Mannheim, March 25, 2000, director: Patrick Schimanski
literature
- Bernhard M. Baron : Werner Fritsch. A surrealist chronicler of his home in Upper Palatinate. In: Literature in Bavaria. No. 102/103, March 2011, ISSN 0178-6857 , pp. 52-55.
- Stefan Pokroppa: Language beyond language. Text analysis of Werner Fritsch's "Steinbruch", "Fleischwolf", "Cherubim" and "Chroma". Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89528-392-4 .
- Hans-Jürgen Drescher, Bert Scharpenberg (ed.): Werner Fritsch. Hieroglyphics of the now. Materials and workshop reports , (Suhrkamp) Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-12305-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Fritsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on Werner Fritsch's work at Literaturport
- Werner Fritsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Werner Fritsch in conversation with Stephanie Junge (dramaturge) including a short biography
- Review of "Faust Sonnengesang" at Spiegel Online
- Experience of the playwright Fritsch with the Bundeswehr at Spiegel Online
- Werner Fritsch in the literature portal Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ ARD radio play days. ( 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. on: ard.de , winner of the ARD radio play award: Enigma Emmy Göring
- ^ Laureati XVII. Prix Marulića.
- ↑ Award for commissioned production by Deutschlandfunk - "Faust Sonnengesang" by Werner Fritsch receives Grand Prix Nova 2013. Accessed on October 10, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Homepage of the German Schiller Foundation
- ↑ Award ceremony 2016. Accessed July 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Nico - Sphinx made of ice. A theater project at the Sophiensaele Berlin
- ↑ lyrikwelt.de ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Nico - Sphinx made of ice. Monologue by Werner Fritsch (2005, Suhrkamp). Review by Wolfgang Lange in Neue Zürcher Zeitung on April 19, 2005.
- ^ Wener Fritsch: Čierny Regen Ovídius ..., Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska
- ↑ Werner Fritsch: Shakespearova lebka, Český rozhlas
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fritsch, Werner |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 4th 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldsassen , Bavaria |