They've announced the finalists for the Mühlheimer Dramatikerpreis -- perhaps the leading German drama prize -- and four-time winner Elfried Jelinek is in the running yet again, for her FaustIn and out (which you can read -- in its German original -- at her official site).
Always fascinating to compare what plays on the German-language stages, and what translates to the English-language ones, and as these names suggest -- Franz Xaver Kroetz seems to be the only one who has had much of any sort of US/UK exposure -- these remain very different theater-worlds.
Jelinek's Jackie is now playing in New York -- see the official site, the first five pages of the English text, or now The New York Times' review -- but I'm not sure a steady stream of Broadway productions will follow, even if she takes her fifth Mühlheimer prize .....
Always fascinating to compare what plays on the German-language stages, and what translates to the English-language ones, and as these names suggest -- Franz Xaver Kroetz seems to be the only one who has had much of any sort of US/UK exposure -- these remain very different theater-worlds.
Jelinek's Jackie is now playing in New York -- see the official site, the first five pages of the English text, or now The New York Times' review -- but I'm not sure a steady stream of Broadway productions will follow, even if she takes her fifth Mühlheimer prize .....