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Botho Strauss (German: [ˈboːtoː ˈʃtʁaʊs] ⓘ; written as Botho Strauß) (born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist, and essayist. [1]
Botho Strauß (* 2. Dezember 1944 in Naumburg) ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Dramatiker. Er gehörte vor allem in den 1970er bis 1990er Jahren zu den erfolgreichsten und meistgespielten zeitgenössischen Dramatikern auf deutschsprachigen Bühnen.
Botho Strauß is a German playwright, novelist and essayist. Botho Strauß's father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, Strauß studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Cologne and Munich, but never finished his dissertation on Thomas Mann und das Theater.
Overview. Botho Strauss. (b. 1944) Quick Reference. (1944– ), German playwright, novelist, and poet, whose non-naturalistic plays scathingly attack modern materialism. After co-editing Theatre Today, 1967–70, he wrote The Hypochondriacs (1972) and Familiar Faces (1975). He then won ...
Big and Little (German: Groß und klein) is a 1978 play by German writer Botho Strauß. It is a station drama in ten scenes and follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world [citation needed].
German playwright and novelist. Examine the life, times, and work of Botho Strauss through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
Botho Strauss (born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist and essayist. Works in German. Strauss is the author of the following works. Marlenes Schwester, two novellas (1975) ISBN 978-3-446-12011-2; Schützenehre, novella (1975) ISBN 978-3-87365-071-8; Trilogie des Wiedersehens, play (1976) ISBN 978-3-446-12269-7
denounced as regression personified, Botho Strauss is nothing if not controversial.' This prolific writer, author of six plays and five prose. texts in the last eleven years, has often been cited as one of the major. representatives of the so-called "new subjectivity" in West German literature.
Oct 23, 1983 · Botho Strauss's ''Big and Little/ Scenes,'' presented in an uncut three- hour version at the C.S.C., is a nonlinear but consequential tour of present- day alienation. Our guide is a lonely woman...
Botho Strauss is a major German writer whose contributions to drama and fiction are equally important. Indeed, Strauss seems to alternate between writing both genres.
