Marieluise Fleißer
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Marieluise Fleißer
Marieluise Fleißer was born in 1901 in Ingolstadt, where she died in 1974. The »greatest female playwright of the 20th century« (Elfriede Jelinek) was rediscovered – after earlier successes in the periphery of Bertolt Brecht – by young playwrights like Rainer Werner Faßbinder and Franz Xaver Kroetz in the 1960s. Subsequently, her plays were performed again, and at last a larger audience also got to see her as a narrator, although Walter Benjamin had already recognised Marieluise Fleißer's prose as an »art form of the first order« early on and Alfred Kerr had simply called her work »an asset«.
Marieluise Fleißer was born in 1901 in Ingolstadt, where she died in 1974. The »greatest female playwright of the 20th century« (Elfriede Jelinek) was rediscovered – after earlier successes in the periphery of Bertolt Brecht – by young playwrights like Rainer Werner Faßbinder and Franz Xaver Kroetz in the 1960s. Subsequently, her plays were performed again, and at last a larger audience also got to see her as a narrator, although Walter Benjamin had already recognised Marieluise Fleißer's prose as an »art form of the first order« early on and Alfred Kerr had simply called her work »an asset«.
Praise
»The works of Marieluise Fleißer are lessons in virtuousness, stylistic honesty and conciseness. Language as a perfect expression of her thought and experience – grainy prose, hard, gripping, concrete, without noncommittal generalities and adorning epithets – only the thing itself, every sentence a revelation.« Heinrich Goertz
»The works of Marieluise Fleißer are lessons in virtuousness, stylistic honesty and conciseness. Language as a perfect expression of her thought and experience – grainy prose, hard, gripping, concrete, without noncommittal generalities and adorning epithets – only the thing itself, every sentence a revelation.« Heinrich Goertz
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2020
Marieluise FleißerYear of Publication: 2020
The Ingolstadt Plays
Comprising the pieces »Purgatory in Ingolsatdt« and »Pioneers in Ingolstadt«, Marieluise Fleißer’s Ingolstadt plays, which caused an absolute scandal when they were first staged in the 1920s, feature...
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France (Brigadier), Portuguese rights (Artistas Unidos)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Purgatory in Ingolstadt, Methuen), Italy (Graphiservice S.r.l.)
Year of Publication: 1931
Marieluise FleißerYear of Publication: 1931
A Credit to the Club
In the seeming idyll of the German province in the years before 1933, Gustl Amricht, small-town man, cigar shop owner and swimming phenomenon, tries hard to become close to Frieda Geier, eventually...
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Spanish world rights (Caleidoscopio de libros), France (Actes Sud), Denmark (Harpyie), Norway (Anaress)