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Groß Und Klein
''Big and Little'' () is a 1978 play by German writer Botho Strauß. It is a station drama in ten scenes and follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world . The play has the subtitle ''Scenes'' (''Szenen'') and has also been performed in English as ''Big and Small''. It premiered on 8 December 1978 at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in West Berlin, directed by Peter Stein (director), Peter Stein and starring Edith Clever. It was broadcast as a German television play in 1980. Other TV versions include a 1995 Portuguese language adaptation that was cut to 1 hour and 20 minutes, and a 1998 episode of Poland's Teatr Telewizji, which starred Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska as Lotte, and similarly trimmed the runtime to 1 hour 25 minute. The play has also been titled ''Great and Small'', as was the case for a 1983 Theatre of the United Kingdom, British production which starr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botho Strauß
Botho Strauss (; written as Botho Strauß) (born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist, and essayist. Early life His father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, Strauss studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Cologne and Munich. He never finished his dissertation on ''Thomas Mann und das Theater''. During his studies, he worked as an extra at the Munich Kammerspiele. Career From 1967 to 1970, he was a critic and editorial journalist for the journal '':de:Theater heute, Theater heute'' (''Theater Today''). Between 1970 and 1975, he worked as a Dramaturge, dramaturgical assistant to Peter Stein (director), Peter Stein at the West Berlin :de:Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer, Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer. After his first attempt as a writer, a Maxim Gorky, Gorky film adaptation, he decided to work as a writer. Strauss had his first breakthrough as a dramatist with the 1977 ''Trilogie des Wiedersehens'', five years after the publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Gussow
Melvyn Hayes "Mel" Gussow (; December 19, 1933 – April 29, 2005) was an American theater critic, movie critic, and author who wrote for ''The New York Times'' for 35 years. Biography Gussow was born in New York City and grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island. He attended South Side High School, and Middlebury College, where he served as editor of ''The Campus'', and graduated in 1955 with a BA degree in American literature. He earned an MA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1956. Gussow was a writer for the Army newspaper in Heidelberg, Germany, where he was stationed for two years. He was hired by ''Newsweek'', where he became a movie and theater critic. His first Broadway play review was of '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' in 1962. This review began a lifelong relationship with the play's author, Edward Albee, that included Gussow's 1999 biography of the playwright entitled ''Edward Albee: A Singular Journey''. Gussow joined the ''New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Plays
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 13 – Former American Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
