Thomas Bernhard: Heldenplatz, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Heldenplatz
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- Übersetzung:
- Meredith Oakes
- Verlag:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 08/2010
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Deutsch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781840029956
- Artikelnummer:
- 7290057
- Umfang:
- 132 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 180 g
- Maße:
- 210 x 129 mm
- Stärke:
- 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 15.8.2010
- Serie:
- Oberon Modern Plays
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| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert | EUR 10,00* |
Klappentext
Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria's most controversial authors.
Bernhard wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Hitler's Germany. Highly controversial in Austria, the play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever.
'Heldenplatz' is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss.
In Heldenplatz, Bernhard's final play, he explores the shared isolation of people who have lost their bearings, along with most of their illusions.
Biografie (Thomas Bernhard)
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in rightwing, Catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen, he contracted pneumonia. Placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, he observed with unflinching acuity protracted suffering and death. From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence of his life and knowledge - and where this account of his life ends, his art begins.
