Botho Strauß

Botho Strauss (born December 2, 1944 in Naumburg) is a German playwright, novelist and essayist. His father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, he studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Koeln and Muenchen, but never finished his dissertation on "Thomas Mann und das Theater". During his studies he worked as extra at the Muenchner Kammerspiele. From 1967 to 1970, he worked as critic and editorial journalist for the journal "Theater heute". From 1970 to 1975 he worked as dramaturgical assistant of Peter Stein at the West Berlin "Schaubuehne am Halleschen Ufer". After his first attempt as writer -in e.g. an adaption of Gorki for the screen- he decided to live as a writer. He had his first breakthrough as a dramatist in 1977 with "Trilogie des Wiedersehens", five years after the publication of his first work. In 1984 he published his important oeuvre, Der Junge Mann (The young man, translated by Roslyn Theobald in 1995). In 1993 (in,Der Spiegel 6,1993) his cultural essay "Anschwellender Bocksgesang" (Swelling Goat Song) a critical examination of the modern civilisation, he triggered a major political controversity in Germany. In his theoretical work, B.S.showed the influence of the ancient classics, Nietzsche, Heidegger as well as Adorno, but his outlook was also radically anti-bourgeois. He soon began to support a pure aesthetics as an opposition of politics. His work as a writer has been recognized with numerous international prizes and his dramas are among the most performed in German language theatres. B.S. presently lives in Berlin and in Templin (Uckermark).

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Works (German)

English translations

  • Drama Contemporary. Germany : plays / by Botho Strauss ... [et al.] ; edited by Carl Weber. (1996) ISBN 080185279X (alk. paper)

0801852803 (pbk. : alk. paper)

  • Big and little : scenes translated by Anne Cattaneo (1979) ISBN 0374112541
  • Couples, passersby translated by Roslyn Theobald (1996) ISBN 0810112426 (alk. paper)
  • Devotion translated by Sophie Wilkins (1995) ISBN 0810113422 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Living, glimmering, lying translated by Roslyn Theobald (1999) ISBN 0810112833 (alk. paper)
  • The park translated by Tinch Minter and Anthony Vivis, Sheffield Academic Press (1988) ISBN 1850751889
  • The young man translated by Roslyn Theobald (1995) ISBN 0810113384 (alk. paper)

Prizes and Awards

  • 1987 Jean Paul Prize
  • 1989 Georg Buechner Prize
  • 1993 Berlin Theatre Prize
  • 2007 Schiller Prize

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