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This is a list of German plays. A. Amphitryon (1807), by Heinrich von Kleist; Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui ...
Unsere Besten ("Our Best") is a television series shown on German public television in November 2003, similar to the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons [1] and that program's spin-offs.
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.
Several years after Brecht's death in 1956, the play was adapted as a German film, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1961), starring Helene Weigel, Brecht's widow and a leading actress. Mother Courage is considered by Oskar Eustis to be the greatest play of the 20th century, and perhaps also the greatest anti-war play of all time. [2]
Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature. [1]
A Folk Tale, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and Niels W. Gade, 1854; A Midsummer Night's Dream, to music by Felix Mendelssohn, 1964; A Month in the Country, to music by Frédéric Chopin, 1976
Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. [1] It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual affairs and at least one murder. It was written in 1918, when Brecht was a 20-year-old student at Munich University , in response to the expressionist drama The Loner ( Der Einsame ...
Inspired by the folklore of Dalmatian hinterland, to the point where the boundary between the folklore and "classical music" ceases to exist, it is considered to be the best and most performed Croatian opera of all time. 1935 Die schweigsame Frau (Strauss). A comic opera based on a play by Ben Jonson. [202] 1935 Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin ...