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 saddened by the number, a three that always refers to a four that, unfortunately, does not exist, and the two suffers under the three, under the missing of one. The child counts and there is no counting rhyme that could undo the absence and retrieve what has been lost, because even a counting rhyme ends with the delineating ›out goes you‹. Rarely has a text moved me so sadly and cheered me up with its intelligent fragility,« writes the playwright Ewald Palmetshofer about Wolfram Höll’s multi-award winning debut And Then.

This volume contains the plays And Then, Of the Disappearance of the Father and Three Are We, which reveal Wolfram Höll to be one of the most radical German-language playwrights.

»The type face in and of itself is a production. It would be a drama indeed if this so very unique dramatic language wouldn’t spread all throughout the country.« Tobias Becker, SPIEGEL ONLINE

»There are but few playwrights in Germany that are of the same world class as Wolfram Höll.« Susann Fleischer, literaturmarkt.info