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Der Clown
Adapted by Marie RadokAlfred Radok
4F / 7M
The dramatisation of the novel Ansichten eines Clowns, one of Böll’s greatest successes. It was published in 1963 and made into a film in 1975 by Vojtech Jasny. Marie, the Catholic daughter of a Communist, has left the clown, Hans Schnier, son of a Rhineland coal millionaire, after 6 years of ‘living in sin’ to marry the influential Catholic Züpfner. The reason for the break-up of the relationship was Schnier’s refusal to sign an agreement specifying that their children would be brought up as Catholics. Abandoned, ill, penniless and unfit for work, the clown reflects on his position and in doing so, on the state of reality in Federal Germany.
World premiere
23.1.1970 Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf
Translations
Spanish: Las opiniones de un payaso
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