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The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) worked on this poetic drama in bursts from his twenties until the end of his life. He reshaped the perpetually fascinating legend, probing the nature and process of human striving and questioning the assumed divisins between the forces of good and evil. H...

Dramatic sketches full of surprising, unpredictable twists and turns from a major twentieth-century German-language author.   A member of the Gruppe 47 writers’ group which sought to renew German-language literature after World War II, Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) achieved great acclaim as a writer of fiction, poetry, prose, and radio drama. The vignettes in At No Time each begin in recognizable situations, often set in Vienna or other Austrian cities, but immediately swerve into bizarre encount...

Oskar Kokoschka hat sich als „Oberwildling“ der Wiener Moderne, als Multitalent in Bild und Wort, als Schöpfer eines viel rezipierten Puppenfetischs und als prominenter, von den Nazis als „entartet" diffamierter Künstler und Antifaschist in den Kanon einer explizit widerständigen Moderne eingeschrieben – als Inbegriff des radikalen, politischen Künstlers. Kokoschka revisited: Die Publikation versammelt als Ergebnis einer internationalen Tagung am Oskar Kokoschka Zentrum der Universität für angew...

Collecting five plays by the German Israeli playwright Yael Ronen—including Third Generation, A Walk on the Dark Side, Roma Army, Slippery Slope, and Planet B—Digging Deep and Getting Dirty is an essential introduction for English-speaking readers to the work of one of the most renowned theater-makers in Europe. Ronen’s collaborative and caring methodologies and rigorous, mordantly funny, and eclectic aesthetics have shaped and transformed German-speaking theater over the past decade.

This is an American contribution to the 1959 bicentennial celebration of Schiller's birth prepared by Dr. Krumpelmann, translator of Kleist's Der zerbrochene Krug and some works of Hans Sachs and Andreas Gryphius.

Elsa Bernstein lived at the center of Munich's cultural life from the 1890s into the next century. Her literary salon was frequented by such authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Fontane, Henrik Ibsen, and Thomas Mann. Her plays, written under the pseudonym Ernst Rosmer, are noteworthy for their unconventional female figures, uninhibited language, taboo subjects, and realistic detail. Susanne Kord, the editor and translator of Twilight, discusses the reception of Bernstein's works—at first enth...

Originally published in 1900 as part of the Pitt Press Series, this book contains the German text of Gustav Freytag's comedy of life in a newspaper editorial office, Die Journalisten. The play is prefaced with a biography of Freytag, and H. W. Eve supplies an appendix of detailed notes on the text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century German theatre or in the works of Freytag.

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, The Robbers was his first play. A passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal, it quickly established his fame throughout Germany and wider Europe. Wallenstein, produced nineteen years later, is regarded as Schiller's masterpiece: a deeply moving exploration of a flawed general'...