Search Results: GERMAN DRAMA from Varennes Books

Good copy of two of Kokoschka's early dramatic works. Considered important precursors of the Expressionist aesthetic; Kokoschka called his plays 'Piloten des Expressionismus' ('pilots of Expressionism'). His early literary work can be regarded as a link between Viennese Modernism and Expressionism. Some brittleness and chipping to edges of front cover. Interior intact. Vol. 41 in the Series entitled The Last Day published from 1913 to 1921 in Leipzig by publisher Kurt Wolff and his editors Franz Werfel and Max Brod. The series was to become an important forum for Expressionist literature.

First Edition of play in original wraps.  Edgewear to spine. Sunning and fraying to edges of wraps. Internally clean. Binding tight.

Very good copy of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play Electra, which was first performed in Germany in 1903. Elektra is a free adaptation in verse of the play of the same name by the ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles,

Pictorial Covered Boards. Condition: Fine. Festival in German rhymes is a festival by Gerhart Hauptmann which premiered on May 31, 1913 to commemorate the centenary of Breslau and the Napoleonic Wars of Liberation. The play was discontinued on 18 June 1913 after eleven performances at the request of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1882-1951) who urged the Breslau Magistrate to remove the festival from the repertoire.

Very good copy of satirical play on Imperial Germany in five acts 196 pp. Gilt lettering on green boards and spine. Interior bright and clean. Binding tight.

Fair-Good copy of first German edition in original wraps of So Ist Das Leben (Such is Life) - the account of a deposed king who wanders the country disguised as a beggar, joins a group of strolling players and is admired by the new king for his talent in impersonating a king and is then buried in a princely tomb when he dies. Tear on front wrap near spine. Some edgewear to corners of spine and front wrap.

Fine copy of first German edition of Frank Wedekind's drama, Samson or Shame and Jealousy, a reworking of the Samson and Delilah story, produced on the eve of World War I. Light bumping and wear to lower right corners of boards. The binding is intact and sturdy; boards are firmly attached. Inside is clean and bright. No tears.

Very good copy of 1922 First German Edition of Brecht's Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night ), a play written in the Expressionist style of Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser between 1919 and 1920. It received its first theatrical production in 1922. According to Leon Feuchwanger, the play was originally entitled Spartakus. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg of the Spacist League who were instrumental in the Spartacist uprising in Berlin in January 1919—had only recently been abducted, tortured and killed by Freikorps soldiers. German Beige original booklet with the two-tone (red and black) print. Rust blemishes from two staples on back cover.