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Gertrud / Gertrud
Novel
Situated beneath the official histories and miles away from familiar family novels, in the detail-drenched, idiosyncratically revealing monologue of his mother, Einar Schleef tells the story of a family that is ruled by female figures who all possess Gertrud’s strength. The first son flees to the West in 1957, the second 20 years later, the father dies somewhere in the middle. Her focus is directed squarely on survival. A German history about a present that lives from the past.
Situated beneath the official histories and miles away from familiar family novels, in the detail-drenched, idiosyncratically revealing monologue of his mother, Einar Schleef tells the story of a family that is ruled by female figures who all possess Gertrud’s strength. The first son flees to the West in 1957, the second 20 years later, the father dies somewhere in the middle. Her focus is directed squarely on survival. A German history about a present that lives from the past.
2008, 522 pages
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Einar Schleef
Author
Einar Schleef was born on 17 January 1944 in Sangerhausen and passed away on 21 July 2001 in July. He is known primarily as a playwright and director, but also worked as a set designer, painter, and actor. His key works include the novel Gertrud and the play Nietzsche Trilogy. His plays were selected for the Berliner Theatertreffen festival on numerous occasions, and he received numerous awards for his work, including the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis 1995.
Einar Schleef
Author
Einar Schleef was born on 17 January 1944 in Sangerhausen and passed away on 21 July 2001 in July. He is known primarily as a playwright and...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Einar SchleefYear of Publication: 2010
Drug Faust Parsifal
In a kind of Berlin dramaturgy, this essay exposes and explains the theatrical canon of Schleef as a theatre-maker – from Aeschylus to Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller. He situates the question »how...
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Year of Publication: 2003
Einar SchleefYear of Publication: 2003
Nietzsche Trilogy & Long Night
Nietzsche Trilogy
In three parts titled Typical Evening, Knife and Fork and Ettersberg, Einar Schleef portrays the philosopher as a tamed...
In three parts titled Typical Evening, Knife and Fork and Ettersberg, Einar Schleef portrays the philosopher as a tamed...
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