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This is a list of German plays. A. Amphitryon (1807), by Heinrich von Kleist; Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui ...
Christ (Anton Lang) in passion play, Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany LCCN2014683195 Magdalen (Bertha Wolf) in passion play, Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany LCCN2014683196. The Oberammergau Passion Play (German: Oberammergauer Passionsspiele) is a passion play that has been performed every 10 years from 1634 to 1674 and each decadal year since 1680 (with a few exceptions) by the inhabitants of ...
German plays adapted into films (41 P) M. German musicals (14 P) Pages in category "German plays" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Mother Courage is one of nine plays that Brecht wrote in resistance to the rise of Fascism and Nazism. In response to the invasion of Poland by the German armies of Adolf Hitler in 1939, Brecht wrote Mother Courage in what writers call a "white heat"—in a little over a month. [4] As the preface to the Ralph Manheim/John Willett Collected ...
The play received its US debut at the President Theatre in New York on March 1, 1949 under the name Outside the Door. It was directed by the head of the Dramatic Workshop, German expatriate stage director Erwin Piscator. The New York Times critic reacted favorably to the play and its production as did most of his colleagues:
Request Concert (German: Wunschkonzert), also known as Request Program or Request Programme, is a wordless monodramatic play written by Franz Xaver Kroetz. The play was originally written in 1971 and premiered in 1973 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany. [1] [2]
The Exception and the Rule (German: Die Ausnahme und die Regel) is a short play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and is one of several Lehrstücke (Teaching plays) he wrote around 1929/30. The objective of Brecht's Lehrstücke was that they be taken on tour and performed in schools or in factories to educate the masses about socialist politics.
Its German premiere by the Berliner Ensemble was on October 7, 1954, at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. [1] The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of Brecht's most celebrated works and one of the most regularly performed 'German' plays. [citation needed] It reworks Brecht's earlier short story "Der Augsburger Kreidekreis."