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ELFRIEDE JELINEK (1946 - ) |
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Nationality: Austrian Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Rowohlt Theater Verlag |
Elfriede Jelinek (b. 20/10/1946) is an Austrian writer. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power. Ein Sportstuck (Sports Play) premiered at the Burgtheater, Vienna in 1998. She is one of the most important contemporary authors writing in German and has won numerous literary prizes, including the Mulheim Dramatist Prize (on four occasions) and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. Novels such as Women as Lovers, Lust and The Piano Teacher (adapted into an award winning film by Michael Haneke) have made her internationally recognized. Jelinek's theatre plays have addressed topics such as gender and class inequality, racism and xenophobia, right wing populism and the repression of a national socialist legacy in Austria, the war in Iraq and the global financial crisis. Lacking a plot and psychological characters, the texts work with language in a playful and musical fashion that brings out surprising truths. Widely performed, her plays' challenging and experimental nature has inspired directors to create their own postdramatic interpretations.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Elfriede Jelinek
Clara S | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Women's Words, Women's Works" published by Ariadne Press, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76431 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clara S: a Musical Tragedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Goethe Institute Theaterbibliothek | 1999 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Goethe-Institut, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59955 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Illness or Modern Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76433 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jackie | ||
| 1st Produced: | City Center Stage II | 24 Feb 2013 | ||||
Organisations: | Women's project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #147545 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | From the controversial pen of Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, flows the solo play JACKIE, an intensely theatrical dissection of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and the myths surrounding her well-coiffed veneer. Like Jelineks acclaimed novel The Piano Teacher, the film of which won the 2001 Gran Prix at Cannes Film Festival, JACKIE is a disturbing exploration of submission, power, and the hypocrisy of everyday life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lost Highway | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
Organisations: | Young Vic/English National Opera | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83829 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek. music/words by Olga Neuwirth; words by Elfriede Jelinek, Based On Film By David Lynch | |||||
Synopsis: | exitential statements about identity, disorientation and 'the inevitable questioning of questionableness', it revolves around a jazz musician sentenced to death for murdering his wife. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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President Evening Breeze | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "New Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77261 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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President Evening Breeze | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "New Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77262 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Princess Dramas, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69306 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | A radical dissection of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Services | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18010 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 9 m/f | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sports Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | Live at LICA (Nuffield Theatre), Lancaster | 11 Jul 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | Just a Must in partnership with Austrian Cultural Forum London | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849434027 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139987 | |||
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Genre: | translation - Post-Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 doubling | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek. Translators: Penny Black with Karen Jurs-Munby. Coinciding with the London 2012 Olympics, Just a Must in partnership with Austrian Cultural Forum London is staging the English language premiere of Sports Play by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. | |||||
| Sports Play (written in 1998, original title: Ein Sportstuck) is a post-dramatic text that explores the marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport. Jelinek questions contemporary society's obsession with fitness and body image and rejects the romanticized notion of sport as portrayed in today's media. She considers sport as a mass phenomenon and as a medium for chauvinism and fanaticism - sport as war. At the same time this is one of Jelinek's most personal plays in which she styles herself as "Elfie Electra" and mixes anger with self-irony. Blurring the boundaries between a theatre event and a sports event, this performance turns Jelinek's linguistic gymnastics into an Olympic feat for the actors and audiences alike. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sports Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | Live at LICA (Nuffield Theatre), Lancaster | 11 Jul 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | Just a Must in partnership with Austrian Cultural Forum London | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849434027 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139988 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | translation - Post-Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 doubling | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek. Translators: Penny Black with Karen Jurs-Munby. Coinciding with the London 2012 Olympics, Just a Must in partnership with Austrian Cultural Forum London is staging the English language premiere of Sports Play by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. | |||||
| Sports Play (written in 1998, original title: Ein Sportstuck) is a post-dramatic text that explores the marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport. Jelinek questions contemporary society's obsession with fitness and body image and rejects the romanticized notion of sport as portrayed in today's media. She considers sport as a mass phenomenon and as a medium for chauvinism and fanaticism - sport as war. At the same time this is one of Jelinek's most personal plays in which she styles herself as "Elfie Electra" and mixes anger with self-irony. Blurring the boundaries between a theatre event and a sports event, this performance turns Jelinek's linguistic gymnastics into an Olympic feat for the actors and audiences alike. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Totenauberg | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in "Drama Contemporary Germany" published by Johns Hopkin Press, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76434 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays By Women Vol.10" Methuen, London, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18011 | |||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband | ||
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Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Plays By Women 10" published by Methuen Drama, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77263 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Elfriede Jelinek | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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