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Informationen zum Autor Michael Patterson was born and educated in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. After thirty five years working in Marketing and Senior Management, with Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Esselte, redundancy gave him the opportunity his own on line business, selling lamination machines and consumables, as well as finding time to write crime novels. It also gave him the time to concentrate on his writing. Married with two children, he lives in Frimley Green, Surrey. From interviews and archives, Michael Patterson vividly recreates Stein's performances of varied theatrical texts. Zusammenfassung First published in 1981, Michael Patterson's was the first book in any language to be devoted to the work of Germany's leading theatre director. The rehearsing, performance and reception of the various texts Stein tackled are thoroughly and vividly recreated here from interviews and archives and in the first-hand account of the workings of the Schaubühne theatre in West Berlin. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Exploring styles - Bond's Saved, Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities and Weiss's Vietnam-Discourse; 2. The Brechtian approach to the classics - Schiller's Intrigue and Love and Goethe's Torquato Tasso; 3. Theatre structures old and new - Bond's Early Morning and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling in Zurich, and the move to the Schaubühne, Berlin; 4. Theatre of revolution - Brecht's The Mother, Worker's Theatre and Vishnevsky's Optimistic Tragedy; 5. The myth of bourgeois individualism - Ibsen's Peer Gynt; 6. From bourgeois past to bourgeois present - Kleist's Prinz von Homburg, Labishe's Piggy Bank, the Antiquity Project, Gorky's Summerfolk, Handke and Botho Strauss; 7. Confrontation with Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Memory and As You Like it; 8. Conclusion - Stein the explorer and the Schaubühne as model; Bibliography; Index....
