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Nietzsche Trilogy & Long Night / Nietzsche Trilogie. Lange Nacht
Plays and Materials
Nietzsche Trilogy
In three parts titled Typical Evening, Knife and Fork and Ettersberg, Einar Schleef portrays the philosopher as a tamed troublemaker. He depicts him after his breakdown as a fallen genius, a glimmering in the shadow of pure reason, and in the crushing claustrophobia of the family, in the torturous claws of his mother and sister.
Long Night
Einar Schleef’s final play deals with the years from...
In three parts titled Typical Evening, Knife and Fork and Ettersberg, Einar Schleef portrays the philosopher as a tamed troublemaker. He depicts him after his breakdown as a fallen genius, a glimmering in the shadow of pure reason, and in the crushing claustrophobia of the family, in the torturous claws of his mother and sister.
Long Night
Einar Schleef’s final play deals with the years from...
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Nietzsche Trilogy
In three parts titled Typical Evening, Knife and Fork and Ettersberg, Einar Schleef portrays the philosopher as a tamed troublemaker. He depicts him after his breakdown as a fallen genius, a glimmering in the shadow of pure reason, and in the crushing claustrophobia of the family, in the torturous claws of his mother and sister.
Long Night
Einar Schleef’s final play deals with the years from 1979 to 1995. It tells the story of two brothers who left East Germany for different reasons and who meet again when their mother visits the West for the first time.
In three parts titled Typical Evening, Knife and Fork and Ettersberg, Einar Schleef portrays the philosopher as a tamed troublemaker. He depicts him after his breakdown as a fallen genius, a glimmering in the shadow of pure reason, and in the crushing claustrophobia of the family, in the torturous claws of his mother and sister.
Long Night
Einar Schleef’s final play deals with the years from 1979 to 1995. It tells the story of two brothers who left East Germany for different reasons and who meet again when their mother visits the West for the first time.
2003, 174 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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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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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: 2008
Einar SchleefYear of Publication: 2008
Gertrud
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...
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