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Franz Xaver Kroetz – banana-cutter, hospital orderly, fledgling actor and, more significantly, Germany's most popular contemporary dramatist of the seventies and early eighties.
It’s a deeply relatable, human struggle. This delicate balance of private and political creates both humour and tragedy, empathy and disdain. As Kroetz puts it, “reality is filthy.” It’s an unsettling experience, and a deeply moving one.
Oct 24, 2016 · Britain hasn’t seen a Franz Xaver Kroetz play in nine years. Germany’s most produced living playwright has never been staged by a major UK theatre, not even the writer-centric Royal Court, or the...
Apr 30, 2009 · He created, as the critic Richard Gilman said, "a theatre of the inarticulate", a profoundly political drama that perhaps has new purchase now, as the excesses of capitalism fall about our ears. First, a brief introduction. Kroetz was born in Munich in 1946.
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Heimarbeit (title means "Domestic Labor"; first produced in Munich, West Germany, 1971; translation produced as Homeworker in London, England, 1974), published in Heimarbeit, Hartnäckig, Mannersache: Drei Stücke, Suhrkamp, 1971. Hartnäckig (title means "Stubborn"; first produced in Munich, 1971), published in Heimarbeit, Hartnäckig, Mannersache: Dr...
Oblomov(adaptation of Ivan Goncharov's novel of the same title), first produced, 1968. Globales Interesse(title means "Global Interest"), first produced in Munich, 1972. Herzliche Gruesse aus Grado, broadcast on television, 1972; produced in Duesseldorf, 1976. Inklusive(radio play), broadcast 1972. Bilanz(radio play), broadcast 1972. Gute Besserung...
(Under name Franz Kroetz) Heimarbeit, Hartnäckig, Mannersache: Drei Stücke, Suhrkamp, 1971. Vier Stücke(contains "Stallerhof," "Wunschkonzert," "Geisterbahn," and "Lieber Fritz"), Suhrkamp, 1972. Gesammelte Stücke(contains "Wildwechsel," "Heimarbeit," "Hartnäckig," "Mannersache," "Lieber Fritz," "Stallerhof," "Geisterbahn," "Wunschkonzert," "Michis...
Kroetz’s success in relatively small theatres with plays like Stallerhof and Ghost Train proved not to be enough for a playwright interested in touching a mass audience. His first plays were grouped with those by Fassbinder, Martin Sperr and Wolfgang Bauer...
Highly-regarded German playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz deals in gritty and often rather depressing realism. A couple of years ago, Daniel Kramer presented his Through the Leaves at Southwark Playhouse and achieved an unexpected move to the West End.
