· Tales from the Vienna Woods. Some 26 years ago Odon von Horvath's play gave the new Olivier the heart of this bitter-sweet evocation of s Vienna. In . · Lithuanian State Youth Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania. March 4, Tales From Vienna Woods is Ödön von Holváth’s scathing depiction of Vienna’s Kleinbürgertum, the petite bourgeoisie that played their own crucial role in the “demise of the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise of National Socialism” [1] in the interwar period. Yana Ross recently adapted this text for the State Youth Estimated Reading Time: 11 mins. · Tales from Vienna Woods is Ödön von Holváth’s scathing depiction of Vienna’s Kleinbürgertum, the petite bourgeoisie that played their own crucial role in the ‘demise of the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise of National Socialism’ in the interwar period. Yana Ross recently adapted this text for the State Youth Theatre in Vilnius to a contemporary Lithuanian context, .
Written in , Ödön von Horváth's play Tales from the Vienna Woods (Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald) is a satire of Viennese Society shortly before the outbreak of WW2. It tells the tale of a naive young woman (Marianne), who breaks off her engagement to a brutal butcher (Oskar) to run away with a handsome exploitative young man (Alfred). Horváth was prolific. His work, especially the twenty-one plays published during his lifetime, won him international repute and praise from Weimar confreres Joseph Roth, Carl Zuckmayer, and Bertolt Brecht. As judge, Zuckmayer awarded the Kleist Prize, the republic's most prestigious, to Horváth's play Tales from the Vienna Woods. Ödön Edmund Josef von Horváth, (born December 9, , Fiume, Hungary [now Rijeka, Croatia]—died June 1, , Paris, France), Hungarian novelist and playwright who was one of the most promising German-language dramatists of the s and one of the earliest antifascist writers in Germany.. Horváth, the son of a Hungarian career diplomat, attended schools in Budapest, Vienna, and Munich.
Tales from Vienna Woods reviews Tales from Vienna Woods is Ödön von Holváth’s scathing depiction of Vienna’s Kleinbürgertum, the petite bourgeoisie that played their own crucial role in the ‘demise of the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise of National Socialism’ in the interwar period. The opera Tales from the Vienna Woods is based on Ödön von Horváth's play about a broken engagement, set against the disintegrated Viennese society of the lates just before the. The play's title is a reference to the waltz "Tales from the Vienna Woods" by Johann Strauss II. Horváth's play premièred at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin. Written in the late s during the period of catastrophic unemployment and the Great Depression, the play is a key work of modern drama, described by Erich Kästner as "a Viennese folk.
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