Includes: Mommsen’s Block by Heiner Müller, translated by Carl Weber; The Tour Guide by Botho Strauss, translated by Carl Weber; Mein Kampf by George Tabori; Carmen Kittel by Georg Seidel, translated by Frank Heibert; Fernando Knapp Wrote Me This Letter by Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler, translated by Michael Roloff and Totenauberg (Death/Valley/Summit) by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Gitta Honegger.
Synopsis
A politically charged view of German drama in the years around the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Booknews
The six plays are from the decade 1985 to 1995, which pivoted on German reunification. They range in content from outspoken sociopolitical attacks to minutely detailed investigations of intimate relationships, and in form from realistic linear narrative to a highly abstract construct of language and imagery. Three from each side of the former wall, all the playwrights are solidly established in the repertoire of German theater. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
About the Author, Carl Weber
Carl Weber is the New York Times and #1 Essencer bestselling author of Something on the Side, The First Lady, So You Call Yourself a Man, The Preacher's Son, Player Haters, Lookin' for Luv, Married Men, and Baby Momma Drama. He is also the Publisher and Editorial Director of Urban Books. He graduated from Virginia State University with a B.S. in accounting and has an MBA in marketing from the University of Virginia.
The six plays are from the decade 1985 to 1995, which pivoted on German reunification. They range in content from outspoken sociopolitical attacks to minutely detailed investigations of intimate relationships, and in form from realistic linear narrative to a highly abstract construct of language and imagery. Three from each side of the former wall, all the playwrights are solidly established in the repertoire of German theater. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
