Carl Zuckmayer
German poet, novelist and playwright.
Born Nachenheim 27th December, 1896: Died Saas-Fée, Switzerland 18th January, 1977
Plays
- Kreuzweg (Crossroad). Drama, 4 acts; verse. Published 1921. Produced Berlin, Staatstheater, December 10, 1920.
- Eunuch. Comedy, 5 acts. Produced Kiel, Stadttheater, 1923. Adaptation based on Terence's Eunuchus.
- Kiktahan oder Die Hinterwalder; Pankraz erwacht (Kiktahan or The Backwoodsmen; Pankraz Awakens). Play, 3 acts. Produced Berlin, Deutsches Theater, 1925.
- Der fröhliche Weinberg (The Merry Vineyard). Comedy, 3 acts. Published 1925. Produced Berlin, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, December 22, 1925.
- Schinderhannes. Play, 4 acts. Published 1927. Produced Berlin, Lessingtheater, October 13, 1927. Adaptation based on Terence's Eunuchus.
- Rivalen (Rivals). Play, 3 acts. Published 1929. Produced Berlin, Theater in der Koniggratzer Strasse, 1928. Adaptation based on Anderson and Stallings's What Price Glory? (1924).
- Katharina Knie. Tightrope-walker play, 4 acts. Published 1929. Produced Berlin, Lessingtheater, December 21, 1928.
- Kakadu-Kakada. Children's play. Published 1930. Produced Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 1929.
- Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (The Captain from Köpenick). German fairy tale, 3 acts. Published 1931. Produced Berlin, Deutsches Theater, March 5, 1931.
- Kat. Play. Produced Berlin, Deutsches Theater, 1931. Adaptation; with Heinz Hilpert based on E. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
- Der Schelm von Bergen (The Knave of Bergen). Play, prologue and 3 acts. Published 1934. Produced Vienna, Burgtheater, October 21, 1934.
- Bellman. Play. Produced Zurich, Schauspielhaus, November 14, 1938. Early version of Ulla Winblad.
- Zum letzen Tropfen. (Somewhere in France). Play, 3 acts. Written ca. 1941. With Fritz Kortner. Produced (in English) New York, Guild Theatre, May 7, 1941.
- Des Teufels General (The Devil's General). Drama, 3 acts. Written 1945. Published 1946. Produced Zurich, Schauspielhaus, December 14. 1946.
- Barbara Blomberg. Play, 3 acts; verse prologue and epilogue. Published 1949. Produced Konstanz, Deutsches Theater, April 30, 1949.
- Der Gesang im Feuerofen (Song in the Fiery Furnace). Drama, 3 acts. Published 1950. Produced Gottingen, Deutsches Theater, November 3, 1950.
- Herbert Engelmann. Unfinished play by Gerhart Hauptmann. Completed by Zuckmayer, 1952.
- Ulla Winblad, oder Musik und Leben des Carl Michael Bellman (Ulla Winblad, or The Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellman). Play, prologue and 8 scenes. Published 1953. Produced Gottingen, Deutsches Theater, October 17, 1953. Revised version of Bellman.
- Das kalte Licht (The Cold Light). Drama, 3 acts. Published 1955. Produced Hamburg, Schauspielhaus, September 3, 1955.
- Die Uhr schleigt eins (The Clock Strikes One). Historical drama of the present. Published 1961. Produced Vienna, Burgtheater, October 14, 1961.
- Das Leben des Horace A. W. Tabor (The Life of Horace A. W. Tabor). Play. Published 1964. Produced Zurich, Schauspielhaus, November 18, 1964.
- Der Kranichtanz (The Dance of the Cranes). Drama, 1 act. Published 1966. Produced Zurich, January 8, 1967.
- Der Rattenfänger premiered in Zürich in 1975
CRITICISM
- I. Engelsing-Malek, "Amor fati" in Zuckmayers Dramen, Konstanz, 1950;
- Tulle der Zeit: Carl Zuckmayer und sein Werk, essays by various contributors, Frankfurt am Main, 1956;
- L. E. Reindl, Carl Zuckmayer: Eine Bibliographie, Munich, 1962; R. Lange, Carl Zuckmayer, Velber, 1969;
- A. Bauer, Carl Zuckmayer, Berlin, 1970;
- A. J. Jacobius, Carl Zuckmayer, eine Bibliographie 1917-1971, Frankfurt am Main, 1971;
- id., Motive und Dramaturgie im Schaupiel Carl Zuckmayers, Frankfurt am Main, 1971.