Zusammenfassung British playwright Meredith Oakes and Austrian translator Andrea Tierney translate here Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard's controversial play Heldenplatz. In Heldenplatz! Bernhard's final play! he explores the shared isolation of people who have lost their bearings! along with most of their illusions. Informationen zum Autor Meredith Oakes' first play! The Neighbour! was produced at the Royal National Theatre! London in 1992! and is published by Oberon Books. The Editing Process was first produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre! London! in 1994. Her translation include The New Menoza by Lenz! Horvath's Italian Night! and Bernhard's Elizabeth II. Opera Libretti include The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit and Solid Assets. Klappentext British playwright Meredith Oakes and Austrian translator Andrea Tierney translate here Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard's controversial play Heldenplatz. In Heldenplatz! Bernhard's final play! he explores the shared isolation of people who have lost their bearings! along with most of their illusions.

What is initially strange continues to be strange, but the sheer strangeness becomes mesmerising, and then marvellous... Deftly translated by Meredith Oakes and Andres Tierney

Vorwort
A well known, controversial play. Opened at the Arcola Theatre in February 2010.

Autorentext
Thomas Bernhard (1931â1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. He is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era and won awards including the Georg Büchner Prize (1970) and the Grimme Prize (1972). His complete works are published by Suhrkamp Verlag in twenty-two volumes. Meredith Oakes' first play, The Neighbour, was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1992, and is published by Oberon Books. The Editing Process was first produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1994. Her translation include The New Menoza by Lenz, Horvath's Italian Night, and Bernhard's Elizabeth II. Opera Libretti include The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit and Solid Assets.

Klappentext
Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria's most controversial authors. Bernhard wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Hitler's Germany. Highly controversial in Austria, the play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. 'Heldenplatz' is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss. In Heldenplatz, Bernhard's final play, he explores the shared isolation of people who have lost their bearings, along with most of their illusions.