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Edelmanns Tochter - Theaterstück

German · Paperback / Softback

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A railway station in reunited Germany. Hinz and his daughter Ruth are sitting in the back room of the station restaurant, waiting. After four decades, the father can no longer elude his daughter's questions and suspicions. In his struggle for a new identity which he hopes will make it easier for him to draw a veil over his guilt and his fate, the old man has become deeply enmeshed in a tangle of lies, helplessness, desolation and self-reproach.

A play about mutual respect, about the relationship between a father and daughter, and about the point at which the exertion of influence becomes unacceptable. Jakob Arjouni does not take sides; he observes human beings rather than literary models. In tight, telling sentences without too much detail, the young author writes about the phenomenon of Germany: guilt and the past, the Third Reich, the Reunification, and the fact that nothing is yet really over and done with...

About the author

Jakob Arjouni, geboren 1964 in Frankfurt am Main, studierte zunächst, jobbte nach dem Abitur einige Jahre in Südfrankreich und lebte dann in Berlin. Er veröffentlichte Romane, Theaterstücke, Erzählungen und Hörspiele. Zusammen mit seiner Familie lebte der Autor vorwiegend in Südfrankreich. Im Januar 2013 erlag Jakob Arjouni einem Krebsleiden.

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"His texts have quality. They are ambitious, unassumingly provocative and highly political."(Bonner General Anzeiger)
"Arjouni the dramatist is every bit as accomplished as Arjouni the thriller writer at creating excitement without a hint of triteness." (Rheinische Post)

Product details

Authors Jakob Arjouni
Publisher Diogenes
 
Languages German
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.1996
 
EAN 9783257060911
ISBN 978-3-257-06091-1
No. of pages 84
Weight 120 g
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama

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