William Shakespeare's Othello
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| Title: | William Shakespeare's Othello |
| Genus: | Machining |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Günter Senkel & Feridun Zaimoglu |
| Literary source: | Othello by William Shakespeare |
| Publishing year: | 2004 |
| Premiere: | 2003 |
| Place of premiere: | Munich Kammerspiele |
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William Shakespeare's Othello is a version of the Shakespeare drama Othello by Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel . The Münchner Kammerspiele reopened in 2003 with its world premiere in a production by Luk Perceval . In 2005 the piece was shown at the Salzburg Festival .
The version, which has been shortened to just under two hours, uses an ultra-hard language: “Clear announcement, man. I have your interest fully on the list. I'm going undercover, dude. And I want to blow all the fagots in Cyprus if you don't fuck Desdemona tomorrow night ”is a typical example the Kammerspiele used to advertise their new Othello.
According to the Metzler authors' lexicon , the version caused some "furore". Hannes Rossacher edited the production in the same year for a TV film that was broadcast several times on German television. A text edition was published in October 2004 by Monsenstein and Vannerdat , another in February 2008 by Alexander Verlag.
After the Kammerspiele, other renowned theaters took on the Zaimoglu / Senkel arrangement, in which "not a word but the title comes from Shakespeare" (ORF) for their next Othello performance. At the premiere at the Graz Schauspielhaus , the director Christina Rast commented on the motifs: “The point why we decided in favor of the revision is that we were interested in the social component, outsiders, and racism in a certain way and ways to thematize more strongly. For us, the Mohr is also a metaphor for exclusion, for being an outsider. Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel simply have a specific term for it and that is' negro 'or' chocolate ". We were interested in this terminology in the sense of exclusion, that one can name a person as that and at the moment when he has this stigma gets it, that's him ”.
In 2009 the piece was played again at the Kammerspiele as a farewell performance for Frank Baumbauer at his request.
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- ↑ orf: "Othello" - but not from Shakespeare , accessed on October 25, 2013