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Michael Meyer
Michael Meyer (1921-2000) was a translator, novelist, biographer, and playwright, best known for his translations of the works of Ibsen and Strindberg. His biography of Ibsen won the Whitbread Prize for Biography in 1971.
Giving the Devil His Due
Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama
by John Fuegi
Bertolt Brecht: Journals, 1934–1955
translated by Hugh Rorrison, edited by John Willett
After Brecht
by Janelle Reinelt
December 1, 1994 issue
The Magician
Images: My Life in Film
by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Marianne Ruuth
The Best Intentions
by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate
Sunday's Children
by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate
Ingmar Bergman: Film and Stage
by Robert Emmet Long
June 9, 1994 issue
The Richest Vagabond
Alfred Nobel: A Biography
by Kenne Fant, translated by Marianne Ruuth
January 13, 1994 issue
Danger: Thin Ice
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Hoeg, translated by Tiina Nunnally
November 18, 1993 issue
Broken Glass
Strindberg's Letters Vol. I: 1862–1892 Vol. II: 1892–1912
selected, edited, and translated by Michael Robinson
June 11, 1992 issue
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Christoph Schlingensief
German film and stage director (1960–2010)
Christoph Schlingensief | |
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Schlingensief in October 2009 | |
| Born | Christoph Maria Schlingensief (1960-10-24)24 October 1960 Oberhausen, West Germany |
| Died | 21 August 2010(2010-08-21) (aged 49) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Director |
Christoph Maria Schlingensief (24 October 1960 – 21 August 2010)[1][2] was a German theatre director, performance artist, and filmmaker. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later staged productions for theatres and festivals, often accompanied by public controversies. In the final years before his death, he staged Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival and worked at several opera houses, establishing himself as a Regietheater artist.
Early life and education
[edit]Schlingensief was born on 24 October 1960 in Oberhausen. His father was a pharmacist and his mother a pediatric nurse. As a child, he worked as an altar server and already made short films with a hand-held camera.
Having passed his Abitur exams, he twice failed to gain admission to the University of Television and Film Munich. From 1981 he studied German language and literature, philosophy and art history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Un