Yōji Sakate

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Yōji Sakate ( 坂 手 洋 二 Sakate Yōji ; * 1962 in Kakegawa , Okayama Prefecture ) is a Japanese playwright and writer.

Life

Sakate studied Japanese literature at Keio University . In 1983 he founded the theater group Rinkogun ( 燐光 群 ).

In 1990 Sakate was awarded the Kishida Kunio Prize for gomi Bukuro o kokyu suru yoru no monogatari (Breathless - Tokyo Garbage Bag) . In 2002 he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize (Category: Drama) for Yaneura (The Attic Chamber ). DA-RU-MA-SA-N-GA-KO-RO-N-DA, which thematically deals with the problem of landmines, won the Tsuruya Nanboku Prize ( 鶴 屋 南北 戯曲 賞 ). Sakate is also chairman of the "Japan Playwright Association" ( 日本 劇作家 協会 , Nihon Gekisakka Kyōkai ). In 2002 he was awarded the Kinokuniya Theater Prize .

Works (selection)

  • Yaneura ( 屋 根 裏 ), one-act play , EA : 2002
    • "The attic", translated by Andreas Regelsberger
  • Daruma-san ga koronda (DA-RU-MA-SA-N-GA-KO-RO-N-DA) , one-act play, EA: 2004, 2011 in the Gallus Theater Frankfurt
    • “The stand-up man falls”, translated by Anne Bergmann, in: Stanca-Scholz Cionca: “Five plays from Japan (1994–2004)”, Munich, iudicium, 2008, pp. 105–213
  • 1993 Ujira no bohyo ( く じ ら の 墓 標 ), engl. "Epitaph for the whales"
  • 1999 Tennō to seppun ( 天皇 と 接吻 )

Essays

  • Sakate Yôji: A second birthday Can we start all over again? In: Goethe University Frankfurt (ed.): Text initiative Fukushima . 2011 (Japanese, textinitiative-fukushima.de ).

reception

The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" as he was the first to bring ordinary people to the stage without high status. In Ibsen's works, social criticism and the individual's engagement with society and its conventions are in the foreground. Sakate has succeeded in paying homage with Ibsen's Ein Volksfeind in the Haiyu-za Theater. Characteristic here is the reference to the present of Japanese society and the rediscovery of the comic aspects originally also applied to Ibsen.

literature

  • Cornelie Ueding: Games with a double bottom - Contemporary theater in Japan . Ed .: Deutschlandfunk. May 15, 2008 ( dradio.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lisa Mundt: Social criticism and modern discourse in contemporary Japanese theater. The playwright Sakate Yōji and the group Rinkōgun. Goethe University Frankfurt, 2008, p. 128 , archived from the original on June 29, 2020 ; accessed on June 29, 2020 (abstract of the master's thesis).
  2. ↑ Artist Database - Sakate Yoji. 国際 交流 基金 (The Japan Foundation), Performing Arts Network, accessed June 4, 2012 (English).
  3. ^ Andreas Regelsberger. Retrieved June 4, 2012 .
  4. ↑ IN BRIEF: Guest performance by the theater company RINKÔGUN from Japan . In: reinMein the local magazine . September 26, 2011 ( reinmein.info ).
  5. ^ Nobuko Tanaka: Yoji Sakate - Addressing social issues with drama . In: Japan Times . June 1, 2006 (English, japantimes.co.jp - with a picture of Sakata).

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personal data
SURNAME Sakate, Yōji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 坂 手 洋 二 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Okayama Prefecture