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4 unusual facts about Botho Strauß


Botho Strauß

Botho Strauß / Neo Rauch: Der Mittler, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-930754-44-4

After his first attempt as a writer, a Gorky adaptation for the screen, he decided to live and work as a writer.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Only by way of German (and later Italian as well as French and Polish) translation beginning in the late eighties did Gómez Dávila's ideas begin to be read among poets and philosophers such as Robert Spaemann, Martin Mosebach, Botho Strauß, Reinhart Maurer, Rolf Schilling, Heiner Müller, Franco Volpi, Asfa-Wossen Asserate and Krzysztof Urbanek.

Reiner Stach

1991: Winner of a writing competition initiated by Botho Strauß in Die Zeit on Hans Henny Jahnn's Fluss ohne Ufer (River Without Banks), for his essay "Die fressende Schöpfung. Über Hans Henny Jahnns Romantrilogie Fluss ohne Ufer" ("The carnivorous creation. About Hans Henny Jahnns trilogy Shoreless River")



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Mats Bergman

He's successfully shown his range in several different theatre productions, a.o in Almqvist's Drottningens juvelsmycke, Bulgakov's Mästaren och Margarita (The Master and Margaret), Brecht's Tolvskillingsoperan (The Threepenny Opera), Botho Strauss' Rummet och tiden, Molière's Misantropen (Le Misanthrope) and Brecht's Den goda människan i Sezuan.

Oren Jacoby

Jacoby has directed plays at Theater for the New City, the Williamstown Theater Festival, Ensemble Studio Theater, the West Bank Cafe and regional theaters, including new works by Richard Dresser, Quincy Long, Botho Strauss, and Franz Xavier Kroetz as well as classics by Moliere, Chekhov, and Pirandello.