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Year of Publication: 2024
Fatma AydemirYear of Publication: 2024
Doctoral Supervisor Faust
Professor Margarete Faust has dedicated her life to university research. Entering the later years of her working life, she has finally been made a full professor and is revered by her students as an icon in the field of gender studies. She has long been a thorn in the side of the right-wing government in Germany, and when word gets out that Faust has helped a student get an abortion abroad, a...
Year of Publication: 1989
Thomas BraschYear of Publication: 1989
Lovely Rita — Rotter — Dear Georg
Three Plays
Lovely Rita (premiered & first published: 1978), Rotter (premiered: 1977, first published: 1983), Dear Georg (premiered: 1980, first published: 1979): The three...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Korea (Sung kyun kwan University Press), Israel (Papyrus Academic Publishing House)
Year of Publication: 2024
Rainald GoetzYear of Publication: 2024
Lapidarium
Plays
LAPIDARIUM is a book featuring three plays that address the dark matter of humanity in the early 21st century: torture, terror, suicide.
The comedy of manners REALM OF DEATH portrays the political process that led from the 9/11 terror attacks to the systematic torture of prisoners of war in the American detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. With reference to...
The comedy of manners REALM OF DEATH portrays the political process that led from the 9/11 terror attacks to the systematic torture of prisoners of war in the American detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. With reference to...
Year of Publication: 2024
Patty Kim HamiltonYear of Publication: 2024
Pain Camp
Seven women in a renowned, surreal pain clinic: in the eternal loop of therapies and conversations with doctors, the patients try out different medications, do pottery classes, exercise programmes – but the pain remains. By all appearances, nothing is happening with the women in the clinic, and yet everything is caught up in a constant, almost imperceptible motion. Times passes differently here....
Year of Publication: 1999
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 1999
Voyage by Dugout or The Play of the Film of the War
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...
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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)
Year of Publication: 2012
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2012
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
A Summer Dialogue
Characters: a nameless woman, a nameless man: a simple couple. They meet in order to talk about love, first loves, and what a man and a woman feel when they are with each other. They talk about how...
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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),
Year of Publication: 2020
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2020
Zdeněk Adamec
A Scene
»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...
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France (Gallimard), Poland (Adit), Czech Republic (Větrné mlýny), Serbia (Laguna)
Year of Publication: 1971
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 1971
The Ride Across Lake Constance
»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...
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USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet), Korea (io-edition)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spain (Institut del Teatre), Netherlands (Bruna), Poland (Ksiegarnia Academicka)
Year of Publication: 1981
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 1981
Walk About the Village
Dramatic Poem
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...
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UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Eksmo), France (Gallimard), Italy (Quodlibet), Serbia (Laguna)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA & Canada (Ariadne Press), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura)
Year of Publication: 2025
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2025
Snows of Yesteryear, Snows of Tomorrow
As he walks, he gathers together the things he encounters, day by day, step by step: two crows at his feet, an apple with a bite taken out of it from the side of the trail, a swarm of flies “flying...
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English world rights (Seagull), Sweden (Faethon), Greece (Vakxikon)
Year of Publication: 1966
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 1966
Offending the Audience and Other Spoken Pieces
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...
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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), Finland (Lurra), Korea (Minumsa), Serbia (Laguna)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Institut del Teatre), Netherlands (Bruna), Czech Republic (Artur), Israel (Or Am)
Selbstbezichtigung [Self-Accusation]: USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Institut del Teatre), Netherlands (Bruna)
Weissagung [Divination]: Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Institut del Teatre), Netherlands (Bruna)
Year of Publication: 2009
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2009
Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light
A Monologue
»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...
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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)
Year of Publication: 2015
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2015
The Innocent, Me and the Unknown Woman by the Side of the Road
A Play in Four Seasons
The time frame, in which the new play by Peter Handke is set, is clearly denoted: it spans over »four seasons«. The place: a country road, a »common country road«? The protagonists: »I«, who is seated by the side of this country road. And who can transform from a dramatic player into an epic narrator.
»I« regards this road as »the last free road in this world, the last...
»I« regards this road as »the last free road in this world, the last...
Year of Publication: 2010
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2010
Storm Still
A panorama that reaches beyond all literary genres while simultaneously transforming them, here prose and drama, the theatrical and the poetical, the historical and the personal are...
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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)
Year of Publication: 2016
Wolfram HöllYear of Publication: 2016
And Then/Of the Disappearance of the Father/Three Are We
»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...
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Russia (Of the Disappearance of the Father; Libra), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Besouros Abstêmios), France (L’Arche)
Year of Publication: 2024
Wolfram HöllYear of Publication: 2024
Niederwald
Was it really such a good idea to leave Germany for this Swiss village in the middle of nowhere? After his partner dies in an accident, an overwhelmed father moves with his infant daughter and her plucky great-grandmother to the place where the child’s mother was born. Under the suspicious eyes of the villagers, they piece together their new life. In this place, even the houses have eyes and...
Year of Publication: 2025
Manuela InfanteYear of Publication: 2025
Hair
An actor is in her early sixties when she suddenly starts losing her hair in tufts. Without putting up a fight, the hair starts to depart her body, the strands lying limp in her hands like dead snakes. Decay has set in, time is the killer. Or is she sick? In any case, she cannot play her stage roles like this anymore, especially not that of Medusa or the Queen Mother. She is pushed out of the...
Year of Publication: 2024
Ariane KochYear of Publication: 2024
Sick Dogs
Poch the greyhound is one of the most successful racing dogs in the world, a bona fide star of the track. But then one day, a brain condition causes her to simply keel over. She wakes up in the dog hospital, surrounded by a flurry of vets desperately puzzling over her diagnosis. Then the Hellcat appears, offering the dog’s brain a valuable and supposedly healing trade: pain relief for half a...
Year of Publication: 2022
Thomas KöckYear of Publication: 2022
your palaces are empty (all we ever wanted)
a missa in cantu
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...
Year of Publication: 2021
Enis MaciYear of Publication: 2021
WONDER
»Let’s enter the former living room of a female dervish. There they stand, the pilgrims, with their bodies. And plead. And hope.
The body is a thread – and who turns the...
The body is a thread – and who turns the...
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Catalan (Galés), Portuguese rights (Artistas Unidos)
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