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  Friedrich Dürrenmatt - VIP Report Samples - All Sample Reports - Astrodienst
Friedrich is a child with an essentially earthy and solid nature, and from a very early age he will probably exhibit a lively, sensuous and well-adapted relationship with the physical world.
Friedrich is a small philosopher and from quite a young age may be heard proclaiming his interpretations of why things happen.
Friedrich may therefore provoke anger in his father, or a belief that this parent's authority is being undermined.
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 Duerrenmatt
Duerrenmatt widmete sich auch, teilweise sogar hauptberuflich der praktischen Theaterarbeit, erst an Basler Buehnen, nach einem Herzinfarkt im Oktober 1969 in der Neuen Schauspiel AG in Zuerich, schliesslich in Duesseldorf.
Duerrenmatt sagte spaeter, er sei in einem “[gespenstischen] Idyll” (Knapp 3) aufgewachsen.
Bei Duerrenmatt selbst zeigte sich zum ersten Mal der Drang zur Kritik in seinen fruehen Kabarettexten, wo er (tages-)politische Themen aufgriff.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Friedrich Duerrenmatt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Friedrich Duerrenmatt was born on January 5, 1921, in Konolfingen, Switzerland.
Friedrich's decision to study painting disappointed his father, who had hoped that his son would follow in his footsteps and become a minister.
Friedrich was an avid supporter of Israel, and wrote a number of essays to that effect.
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 Friedrich Dürrenmatt - VIP Report Samples - All Sample Reports - Astrodienst
Because Friedrich is likely to grow into such a deeply responsible and essentially caring child, there is not much likelihood of his taking life and others for granted.
Friedrich is earthy, solid and sensible at heart, and well adapted to the world in which he finds himself.
Friedrich has an image of his mother as a free spirit longing to fly.
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 Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in Konolfingen, near Berne.
According to Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Schiller's idea of the tragic has become unworkable because it presupposes a clear concept of the world.
Der Auftrag oder Vom Beobachten des Beobachters der Beobachter, 1986 - The Assignment: Or, on Observing the Observer of the Observers
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On it, two pristine white blotters, one metre by one metre twenty, three red sharpened Faber Castell pencils, white A4 writing paper and a rubber on one, heavy drawing paper on the other; behind it two glasses with quills of various strengths, a scalpel and ink.
On the one side Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote the plays and books which made him famous far beyond the boundaries of his native Switzerland; on the other he created something which he hid from all but his closest friends.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 'release' from both the writing and the drawing was painting on an easel, in his studio, with colours, mostly gouache.
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 The Physicists - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Physicists is one of many physicist-centered dramas written in the 1950s and 1960s.
At that time the potential that scientific innovation held was largely seen in the awesome destructive power of the atomic and hydrogens bombs.
Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) is best known as one of the leading German-speaking post-World War II dramatists.
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 Froebel Friedrich - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Froebel Friedrich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Froebel, Friedrich (1782-1852), German educator, the originator of the kindergarten.
Kindergarten, a form of pre-school education in which children are taught through creative play, social interaction, and natural expression....
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 Goethe-Institut Playbill - German Theatre in Australia - Visit, The - Playwright
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in Konolfingen/Switzerland on 5 January 1921, studied philosophy and German literature in Bern and started his career as a writer in 1942.
His first play, Es steht geschrieben (It is written), premiered in Zurich in April 1947 and he soon gained reputation as one of the most respected writers of his time.
A Swiss involved in the world, a pessimist with a comic gift, a dramatic theorist grounded in stagecraft, an intellectual wary of abstractions, a teacher distrustful of lessons, Friedrich Dürrenmatt throughout his writing life kept steady by balancing contradictions.
www.goethe.de /ins/au/lp/prj/gta/pla/npr/due/plw/enindex.htm   (191 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Among the German-speaking authors in Switzerland who rose to international fame after the Second World War, playwright, novelist and essayist Friedrich Dürrenmatt is the most prominent.
Already during his lifetime, his texts ranked high in the modernist canon for students, theater audiences and readers around the globe.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born 5 January 1921 in the Swiss village of Konolfingen (canton Berne), the first child of Reinhold and Hulda Dürrenmatt, née Zimmermann.
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 Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 1, Plays, translated by Joel Agee, edited and with an Introduction by Kenneth J. Northcott (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006) ISBN 0-226-17426-3
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions, translated by Joel Agee, edited and with an Introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006) ISBN 0-226-17429-8
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 Blumenbach Johann Friedrich - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Blumenbach Johann Friedrich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752-1840), German naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist, born in Gotha, and educated at the universities of...
Struensee, Johann Friedrich, Count (1737-1772), German-Danish doctor and statesman, born in Halle, Germany.
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The title of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Romanentwurf, Der Rebell (Draft of a Novel, The Rebel, in Stoffe III, 1998, p.
For Friedrich Dürrenmatt the perspective on existence as a Labyrinth becomes the program and project of a "primal comedy" (Urkomödie) (Dürrenmatt 1998a, p.116).
Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Romanentwurf, Der Rebell is the story of a son who leaves his homeland and goes out into the world to find his father.
www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/articles/art_boothe01.shtml   (8794 words)

  
 Friedrich Dürrenmatt
According to Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Schiller's idea of the tragic had become unworkable because it presupposes a clear concept of the world.
But, in the nuclear age, "we can be reached only by comedy" behind which the tragic slowly exposes itself.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt died of heart failure in Neuchâtel on December 14, 1990.
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 TIME.com: Modern Morality Play -- Feb. 9, 1962 -- Page 1
Friedrich Duerrenmatt is best known for his unsettling play The Visit, in which a vengeful old lady manipulates the greed of a whole town to make its respectable citizens collaborate in the ritual murder of her former lover.
And though its manner is so schematic that the book turns into more of a pamphlet than a work of art, it provides an absorbing set of clues to Duerrenmatt's philosophy.
The hero, Hans Barlach, is a retired Swiss police commissioner, convalescing from an operation for cancer.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,938356,00.html   (668 words)

  
 A Brief Biography Of Friedrich Durrenmatt, Creator Of The Visit
Born January 5, 1921 in Konolfingen, Switzerland, Friedrich Durrenmatt bore an interesting and telling background: his father, Reinhold, was a Protestant minister, his grandfather Ulrich, was a behind-the-scenes man in Swiss politics and a well-known satirist.
These different threads would meet in the young playwright and thinker.
When The Visit was written, the world was on the brink of disaster, and every town was a Gullen.
www.moveweb.com /Guidewrite/durrenmatt.html   (1361 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Visit Study Guide - Related Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Friedrich Duerrenmatt Information on Duerrenmatt, his contemporaries, and other related links.
Medea Information on the character that Claire is compared to.
German Expressionism Examples of German Expressionist paintings that influenced Duerrenmatt's artistic development.
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 The physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt | LibraryThing
The execution of justice by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (14/74)
The quarry : a novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (10/28)
The quarry : a novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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 PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Non-Individuation and Wedding with Death in the Works of Friedrich Dürrenmat (click here for the German text)
"Der Rebell," one of Friedrich D¸rrenmatt's later sketches in prose, has the structure of a story of becoming oneself and finding oneself that ends with the protagonist's uniting with a loved person.
But by citing the prototypic pattern of a dramaturgy of individuation the author creates something else: the dramaturgy of radical non-individuation, which ends with self-destruction.
www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/2001_boothe01.shtml   (9077 words)

  
 The Chicago Blog: Press Release: Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings
Publicity news from the University of Chicago Press including news tips, press releases, reviews, and intelligent commentary.
The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the century.
During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters.
pressblog.uchicago.edu /2006/10/16/press_release_friedrich_durr.html   (194 words)

  
 Playbill News: The Visit Confirmed as Goodman Theatre Season Opener; Begins Sept. 21
John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally's musicalization of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Visit will play Chicago's Goodman Theatre next season.
"The whole idea of [crossing] Duerrenmatt's play with a musical theatre mode is tremendously exciting," Galati told Playbill On-Line.
"And actually, it's something that Duerrenmatt himself would be turned on by.
www.playbill.com /news/article/59491.html   (757 words)

  
 Deutsche Literatur: Standards-Based Thematic Unit
Designed for a fourth or fifth semester German class.
The class has been reading and discussing short stories and plays by 20th century authors, especially Bertolt Brecht and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
As a final project the instructor divides the class into two groups and asks each group to rewrite one of the short stories as a play by applying Brecht's and Dürrenmatt's theoretical writings on the theater (Brecht's Kleines Organon für das Theater and Dürrenmatt's Theaterprobleme) which they have also been asked to read.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/germ/workshops/scenario5.html   (658 words)

  
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 TIME.com: Salome's Revenge -- Dec. 10, 1973 -- Page 1
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Like Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch, Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt is one of those didactic dramatists who regard the theater as a classroom, the stage as a flboard, the pen as a pointer and the playgoers as barely educable dolts.
These playwrights take a dim view of man, dividing the species into two arbitrary categories: predators and prey, the fleecers and the fleeced.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,908297,00.html   (724 words)

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