Lovely Rita (premiered & first published: 1978), Rotter (premiered: 1977, first published: 1983), Dear Georg (premiered: 1980, first published: 1979): The three...
Lovely Rita:
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Korea (Sung kyun kwan University Press), Israel (Papyrus Academic Publishing House)
»Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light is a monologue delivered by the ›she‹ in...
English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), Italy (Quodlibet), Bengali rights (Parampara)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Bulgaria (Black Flamingo)
»The […] play The Ride Across Lake Constance, deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itself, independent of the offstage world, and the way language...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet), Korea (io-edition)
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Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), France (Bruit du Temps), Italy (Quodlibet), Norway (Samlaget), Japan (Ronsosha), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Hermagoras/Mohorjeva založba),
English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Bruit du Temps), Italy (Quodlibet), Netherlands (Van Oorschot), Slovenia (Wieser), Serbia (Laguna)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Norway (Samlaget)
These three pieces without a plot, without a scenenery, and without props are spoken pieces that, built around the sound elements of beat music, make language itself its content, they are attempts...
Publikumsbeschimpfung [Offending the Audience]: USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Symposium), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Perspectiva), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet), Korea (Minumsa), Serbia (Laguna)
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Selbstbezichtigung [Self-Accusation]: USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet)
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Weissagung [Divination]: Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet)
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»An extensive scene«, a public place, »definitely not a free space«; possibly in the Spanish province of Avila or in Humpolec in Bohemia, now or at another time. A narrator who is one of...
A conflict develops between siblings Gregor, Hans and Sophie about their parents‘ hose. As the eldest son, Gregor has inherited the house and the piece of land after the...
UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Eksmo), France (Gallimard), Italy (Quodlibet), Serbia (Laguna)
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Two directors meet in the foyer of the Hotel Acapulco in a small provincial town in the heart of the Balkan in order to cast the actors for a planned film on the war that took place in the area a...
Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Italy (Quodlibet)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Hiru), France (La Différence), Serbia (Paideia), Greece (Exandas)
»The child speaks, it narrates and counts the apartment blocks, the big stones on the playground, the floors and doorbells, and before you know it, you are caught in an arithmetic of loss, are...
Russia (Of the Disappearance of the Father; Libra), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Besouros Abstêmios), France (L’Arche)
The statues have been toppled, the colonies dissolved, the servants have fled, there are stoats in the ballroom, roots have gripped the stairway, the palaces are in ruins, capitalism smokes one last cigarette, bloodless, the Anthropocene coughs in consternation and amidst all of this someone whispers: but I loved you.
Thomas Köck moves through different scenarios and times that are...
Portuguese rights (Artistas Unidos)
There is melting, there is wobbling, something in our world has been out of balance for a long time. The ice is disappearing, leaving behind mud and craters. Mammoths are uncovered and they soon attract hunters – finally they can sell ivory without killing for it. The events of Glaring Days happen simultaneously and its characters effortlessly transcend time and space. A...
Pressured by his partner, Elijah undergoes a sex change operation in his home country of Iran. His powerful cousin Mela, who works in the oil industry, helps him go through this. For Elija, this is a survival strategy, as homosexuality and bisexuality are severely punished while gender reassignment is tolerated – transsexuality is considered a curable disease. But when his partner leaves...
Life plans are worrisome worlds apart, transitions and nuances threaten to disappear in the public debate. David is dead, as published by the influencer Tim and some journalists, but from the parents’ point of view their boy has been suffering from a kind of dementia ever since his traffic accident. Renate and Konrad are looking for a school for their son, who takes the form of a tablet...
France (Presses universitaires du Midi)