The playwright, storyteller, poet, radio dramatist, and translator Lothar Trolle died on March 31, 2025, at the age of eighty-one. In the successor generation to Heiner Müller, Trolle is regarded, along with Thomas Brasch and Einar Schleef, as one of the key innovators in German-language drama. In one obituary, Volker Braun honored him as an author who went beyond genres and adaptations. He went on to say: Like the Mansfeld countryside he came from, his appearance was placid and taciturn, but his essence was alert and bruised. The experience of upheaval provided the raw material for his sophisticated, unpretentious plays, which are his legacy to the theater. Following the publication of the first two volumes of his texts, Heimatland (Homeland) and Geschichtsunterricht (History Lesson), the next installment in the series is Anna fährt zur Uni (Anna Goes to University). In his stories, songs, descriptions, choruses, dreams, Hanswurst (Jack Sausage) scenes, and theater texts, Trolle examines women's lives, day-to-day experience, and living conditions. He tells of happiness and adversity, of fears, injuries, afflictions, violence, and the lack of freedom, of hopes, wishes, dreams, and yearnings. Today, yesterday, the day before yesterdayand tomorrow.

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Lothar Trolle, geb. 1944 in Brücken bei Sangerhausen, gest. 2025 in Berlin. Hermes in der Stadt, eines seiner bekanntesten Theaterstücke, wurde von Frank Castorf 1992 am Deutschen Theater Berlin inszeniert.