biography
pronunciation:
[daw(r)st]
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Sonneburg, Thüringen, C Germany. He served in World War 2 and was a prisoner-of-war. He studied German and drama and began a literary career in 1960. After initial work writing for a puppet theatre in Munich, he achieved international acclaim for his anti-war play Große Schmährede an der Stadtmauer (1962), followed by Toller (1968) and Merlin oder das wüste Land (1981). His socially critical writing, which has been compared with that of Dürrenmatt, includes adaptations for television and radio, librettos, translations of Molière and O'Casey, and a saga of middle-class life written with his wife, Ursula Ehler. In 1990 he received the Georg-Büchner-Preis. |
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