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8 unusual facts about Frank Wedekind


Anagrams of Desire

The book concludes with a brief discussion of Carter's unrealised dramatic writings, a libretto of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a stage adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Lulu plays (Erdgeist et al.

Betty Nansen Teatret

Its profile gradually changed in a more serious and artistically ambitious direction with plays by George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, Strindberg and Frank Wedekind.

Mike Amigorena

He first appeared in Buenos Aires' vibrant theatre scene in 1995 and became a prolific stage actor, notably in a 1998 local production of German playwright Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, and in a compressed Shakespeare production from 2004 to 2006, which earned him Argentine ACE and Clarín Awards.

Riad Ismat

Ismat has directed more than 15 theatrical productions, including interpretations of Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams and Frank Wedekind, as well as producing his own personal vision of The Arabian Nights.

Saint Julian's School

Others play performed by St Julian's School also include Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, Our Country's Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, as well as a Portuguese production of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.

Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr.

Samuel Eliot Jr. wrote books on the theatre and made many translations from the German playwright Frank Wedekind.

The Curious Room

The collection also includes the unproduced screenplays Gun for the Devil (based upon an earlier short work of hers, collected in American Ghosts and Old World Wonders) and The Christchurch Murders (based on the Parker–Hulme murder case which also influenced the 1994 Peter Jackson film Heavenly Creatures), as well a stage adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Lulu plays.

The Fine Art of Love

The film, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and Mary Nighy, is based on Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls by the German playwright Frank Wedekind.


Hans Carossa

The year 1907 was a crucial one for a young Roman Catholic who longed to become a writer, especially one whose idols had been poets such as Richard Dehmel and Frank Wedekind; for it was in 1907 that Pope Pius X issued the encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis bitterly condemning modernism in the arts.

Herbert Eulenberg

He was “sympathizer” of “Die Maler des Jungen Rheinlands”, the painters of the young Rhineland, and was in contact with personalities such as Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Frank Wedekind, Gerhart Hauptmann, Lulu von Strauß und Torney, Felix Hollaender, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Mühsam, Peter Hille, John Henry Mackay, Herwarth Walden, Emil Ludwig, Franz Werfel, Wilhelm Schmidtbonn, and others.


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Anders Heinrichsen

In 2008-2009 Heinrichsen worked at Aarhus Theatre, playing Rodrigo Quast in Frank Wedekind's Lulu, Roger Parslow in Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and Arthur in Franz Kafka's The Castle.