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Ralph Manheim

RALPH MANHEIM

  (1907 - 1992)
Nationality:    USA
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Ralph Frederick Manheim (4 April 1907, New York  26 September 1992, Cambridge, england) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. He likened translation to acting, the role being "to impersonate his author". After graduating from Harvard, Yale and Columbia, Manheim spent time in Munich and ViennA. His first major work was translating Hitler's Mein Kampf into English with all of its grammatical errors and awkward phrasing intact. Manheim won many awards in his lifetime, including a MacArthur Foundation (1983) "genius" grant. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a National Book Award and honors from PeN. the PeN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is awarded to mark major lifetime achievement in the field of translation.

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         Amphitryon         Baal         Caucasian Chalk Circle         Coriolanus         Don Juan         Edward II         Exception And the Rule, The         Flood         Good Person Of Setzuan, The         Life Of Edward Ii Of England         Life Of Galileo, The         Max         Mister Mister         Mother Courage And Her Children         Oncle, Oncle         Only Ten Minutes To Buffalo         Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising         Prophets, The         Puntila And Matti, His Hired Man         Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui, The         Season In the Congo         Tango         Tragedy of King Christophe         Trial Of Joan Of Arc At Rouen, 1431, The         Tutor, The         Vatzlav         Visions Of Simone Machard, The

Amphitryon

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

1st Produced:
Mitzi E Newhouse Theater, New York    28 May 1970

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Translation

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Baal

Synopsis:
Baal, a poet and singer, drunk, lazy, selfish and ruthless, seduces (among others) a disciple's seventeen year-old mistress, who drowns herself. He mixes with tramps and drivers and sings in a cheap nightclub. With his friend the composer ekart he wanders through the country, drinking and fighting. Sophie, pregnant by him, follows them and likewise drowns herself. Baal seduces ekart's mistress, then kills him. Hunted by the police and deserted by the woodcutters, he dies alone in a forest hut.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; 'Written in collaboration with William e Smith

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Caucasian Chalk Circle

Synopsis:
the survival qualities of goodness and evil and the definition of justice by the needs of life

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  39            Female:  14            Other:  -

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Coriolanus

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Don Juan

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Edward II

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht, after Christopher Marlowe (1594) translated by William E Smith and Ralph Manheim

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Organisations:
National Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
translation

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Exception And the Rule, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Brecht, Bertolt, the Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke" Methuen, London, 1977   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Flood

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Gunter Grass

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Four Plays by Gunther Grass, Penguin,    -

Music:
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Good Person Of Setzuan, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  18            Female:  11            Other:  -

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Life Of Edward Ii Of England

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Smith

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  18            Female:  11            Other:  King edward II, Piers Gaveston (called Daniel in this)

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Life Of Galileo, The

Synopsis:
charts the progress of Galileo's life from his first demonstration to his imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  35            Female:  11            Other:  extras

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Max

Max
Political confusions of the young and middle aged

Notes:
Original Playwright - Gunter Grass. Translated by A Leslie Willson And Ralph Manheim

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Harcourt Brace, 1972   978-0156577823

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mister Mister

Mister Mister
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Gunter Grass. Translated by A Leslie Willson And Ralph Manheim

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in "Four Plays by Gunther Grass" published by Harcourt Brace, 1967   978-0156331500

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
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Mother Courage And Her Children

Synopsis:
Period 1630's, Mother Courage follows the Swedish armies through the terrible Thirty Years War with her mobile canteen and three children, each by a different man

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Music by Dessau

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  19            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Oncle, Oncle

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Gunter Grass

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Four Plays by Gunther Grass, Penguin,    -

Music:
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Only Ten Minutes To Buffalo

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Gunter Grass

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Four Plays by Gunther Grass, Penguin,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising

Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Gunter Grass

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Harcourt   978-0156720502

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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Prophets, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek; Written in collaboration with Teresa Dzieduscycka

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Puntila And Matti, His Hired Man

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui, The

Synopsis:
Hitler's rise to power is illustrated in the story of a small-time gangster's take-over of the greengrocery trade in Chicago

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  28            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Season In the Congo

Synopsis:
charts the rise and fall of legendary leader Patrice Lumumba, whose passionate determination to free his people from Belgian rule inspired great courage and betrayal.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aime Cesaire

1st Produced:
-    1966

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Playscript 21" Calder & Boyars, London,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Tango

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek; Written in collaboration with Teresa Dzieduscycka

1st Produced:
-    1964

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Nine Plays of the Modern theatre" French, New York,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tragedy of King Christophe

Tragedy of King Christophe
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Aime Cesaire

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Grove Press 1970   978-0394173221

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Trial Of Joan Of Arc At Rouen, 1431, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  25            Female:  9            Other:  extras

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Tutor, The

Synopsis:
Period 1930's Germany, about the miseries and humiliations suffered by a young private tutor who castrates himself to become accepted

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  10            Other:  extras

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Vatzlav

Synopsis:
a man is washed up on an island inhabited only by aristocrats and he is taken to be one too

Notes:
Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Grove Press 1970   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Visions Of Simone Machard, The

Synopsis:
the Germans are advancing towards a French town in 1940 when a young girl imagines herself as Joan of arc with predictable results

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
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