Fleisser, Marieluise
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| Birthname | Marieluise Fleißer | ||||
| born on | 22 November 1901 at 07:30 (= 07:30 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Ingolstadt, Germany, 48n46, 11e27 | ||||
| Timezone | MET h1e (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   29°17'   06°32 Asc. 27°43'
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Biography
German author and playwright.
Her best known works are two plays, Purgatory in Ingolstadt (1924) and Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1926). Bertolt Brecht persuaded the director Moriz Seeler to stage the first play, which Seeler retitled; Fleißer's original title was The Washing of Feet. Brecht then encouraged her to write Pioneers. Premiered in Berlin, the plays caused a scandal, especially in her home town, and were attacked by the Nazis, who had not yet come to power.
Fleißer was rediscovered in the 1970s by a later generation, among them the theatre director Peter Stein and the playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz. Pioneers in Ingolstadt was adapted as a TV film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1971.
The plays were given their London premieres at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1990, directed by Annie Castledine and Stephen Daldry.
She died 2 February 1974.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Brecht, Bertolt (born 10 February 1898)
Events
Source Notes
Arno Müller, vol 3
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script
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