Playwrights and their stage works 

Carl Zuckmayer

German poet, novelist and playwright.

Born Nachenheim 27th December, 1896: Died Saas-Fée, Switzerland 18th January, 1977

Plays

  1. Kreuzweg (Crossroad). Drama, 4 acts; verse. Published 1921. Produced Berlin, Staatstheater, December 10, 1920.
  2. Eunuch. Comedy, 5 acts. Produced Kiel, Stadttheater, 1923. Adaptation based on Terence's Eunuchus.
  3. Kiktahan oder Die Hinterwalder; Pankraz erwacht (Kiktahan or The Backwoodsmen; Pankraz Awakens). Play, 3 acts. Produced Berlin, Deutsches Theater, 1925.
  4. Der fröhliche Weinberg (The Merry Vineyard). Comedy, 3 acts. Published 1925. Produced Berlin, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, December 22, 1925.
  5. Schinderhannes. Play, 4 acts. Published 1927. Produced Berlin, Lessingtheater, October 13, 1927. Adaptation based on Terence's Eunuchus.
  6. 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).
  7. Katharina Knie. Tightrope-walker play, 4 acts. Published 1929. Produced Berlin, Lessingtheater, December 21, 1928.
  8. Kakadu-Kakada. Children's play. Published 1930. Produced Deutsches Theater, Berlin, 1929.
  9. Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (The Captain from Köpenick). German fairy tale, 3 acts. Published 1931. Produced Berlin, Deutsches Theater, March 5, 1931.
  10. Kat. Play. Produced Berlin, Deutsches Theater, 1931. Adaptation; with Heinz Hilpert based on E. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
  11. Der Schelm von Bergen (The Knave of Bergen). Play, prologue and 3 acts. Published 1934. Produced Vienna, Burgtheater, October 21, 1934.
  12. Bellman. Play. Produced Zurich, Schauspielhaus, November 14, 1938. Early version of Ulla Winblad.
  13. 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.
  14. Des Teufels General (The Devil's General). Drama, 3 acts. Written 1945. Published 1946. Produced Zurich, Schauspielhaus, December 14. 1946.
  15. Barbara Blomberg. Play, 3 acts; verse prologue and epilogue. Published 1949. Produced Konstanz, Deutsches Theater, April 30, 1949.
  16. Der Gesang im Feuerofen (Song in the Fiery Furnace). Drama, 3 acts. Published 1950. Produced Gottingen, Deutsches Theater, November 3, 1950.
  17. Herbert Engelmann. Unfinished play by Gerhart Hauptmann. Completed by Zuckmayer, 1952.
  18. 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.
  19. Das kalte Licht (The Cold Light). Drama, 3 acts. Published 1955. Produced Hamburg, Schauspielhaus, September 3, 1955.
  20. Die Uhr schleigt eins (The Clock Strikes One). Historical drama of the present. Published 1961. Produced Vienna, Burgtheater, October 14, 1961.
  21. Das Leben des Horace A. W. Tabor (The Life of Horace A. W. Tabor). Play. Published 1964. Produced Zurich, Schauspielhaus, November 18, 1964.
  22. Der Kranichtanz (The Dance of the Cranes). Drama, 1 act. Published 1966. Produced Zurich, January 8, 1967.
  23. Der Rattenfänger premiered in Zürich in 1975

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