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Klaus Mann

KLAUS MANN   (1906 - 1949)

Nationality:   German    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

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In November 1934 Klaus was stripped of German citizenship by the Nazi regime. He became a Czechoslovak citizen. In 1936, he moved to the United States, living in Princeton, New Jersey and New York. In the summer of 1937, he met his partner Thomas Quinn Curtiss, who was later a longtime film and theater reviewer for Variety and the International Herald Tribune. Mann became a US citizen in 1943.. Mann's most famous novel, Mephisto, was written in 1936 and first published in Amsterdam. The novel is a thinly-disguised portrait of his former brother-in-law, the actor Gustaf Gründgens. The literary scandal surrounding it made Mann posthumously famous in West Germany, as Gründgrens' adopted son brought a legal case to have the novel banned after its first publication in West Germany in the early 1960s. After seven years of legal hearings, the West German Supreme Court banned it by a vote of three to three, although it continued to be available in East Germany and abroad. The ban was lifted and the novel published in West Germany in 1981.

Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Klaus Mann

KLAUS MANN  

Ania And Esther

1st Produced:

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1st Published:

Contained in "Lovesick - Modernist Plays of Same Sex Love" edited by Laurence Senelick, 1999

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#62773

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Genre:

Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, full length

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Synopsis:

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TANIA ALEXANDER  

Siblings

1st Produced:

Lyric Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King St, London W6 0QL >>>

1989

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 25 June 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0714529394

Music:

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#164284

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Genre:

translation

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Klaus Mann. Translated by Tania Alexander and Klaus Mann

Siblings

In a Germany inexorably slipping towards Nazi domination, initial public reaction to Siblings was one of moral disgust. Meanwhile Klaus and his sister Erika were feted by the world as the Literary Twins and their father Thomas Mann was at the height of his career. The play (first produced in Munich in 1930), a weird and unsettling portrayal of incest inspired by Cocteau s Les Enfants Terribles and set in pre-war Paris, reflects Klaus Mann s own life with Erika - an intimate world of private games cultivated against their overpowering father. In Siblings, however, the participants are no mere adolescents but adults whose rituals and games are sinister and desperate attempts to exclude the encroaching totalitarian conformity of the outside world. The play was given both its English language and British premiere in this version in 1989 at the Lyric Hammersmith under the direction of Peter Eyre.As a companion piece the evocative novella The Children s Story, written in 1926 when Klaus Mann was nineteen, presents a complementary view of childhood. Here the more carefree games and fantasies of the children are played out beneath the shadows cast by adult passions and conflicts.

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PETER EYRE  

Siblings

1st Produced:

Lyric Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King St, London W6 0QL >>>

1989

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 25 June 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0714529394

Music:

-

doollee no

#164285

To Buy This Play:

If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

 

abebooks.com
abebooks.co.uk

stageplays.com

amazon.com

amazon.co.uk

amazon.ca

Genre:

translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Klaus Mann. Translated by Tania Alexander and Klaus Mann

Siblings

In a Germany inexorably slipping towards Nazi domination, initial public reaction to Siblings was one of moral disgust. Meanwhile Klaus and his sister Erika were feted by the world as the Literary Twins and their father Thomas Mann was at the height of his career. The play (first produced in Munich in 1930), a weird and unsettling portrayal of incest inspired by Cocteau s Les Enfants Terribles and set in pre-war Paris, reflects Klaus Mann s own life with Erika - an intimate world of private games cultivated against their overpowering father. In Siblings, however, the participants are no mere adolescents but adults whose rituals and games are sinister and desperate attempts to exclude the encroaching totalitarian conformity of the outside world. The play was given both its English language and British premiere in this version in 1989 at the Lyric Hammersmith under the direction of Peter Eyre.As a companion piece the evocative novella The Children s Story, written in 1926 when Klaus Mann was nineteen, presents a complementary view of childhood. Here the more carefree games and fantasies of the children are played out beneath the shadows cast by adult passions and conflicts.

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