Marieluise Fleißer [SEP] place of death
Marieluise Fleißer
Marieluise Fleißer (; 23 November 1901, Ingolstadt – 2 February 1974, Ingolstadt) was a German author and playwright.
Work.
Fleißer's best-known works are two plays, "Purgatory in Ingolstadt" (1924) and "Pioneers in Ingolstadt" (1928). The plays, which feature lower-class characters from small town Bavaria, deal with abusive, sometimes violent relationships between men and women. Among literary scholars, the plays are categorized as "critical Volksstücke," a genre that
Gedächtnispreis
- 2013 Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis
- 2015 Georg Büchner Prize
- 2018 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Selected works.
- Irre/Insane (1983) – the novel which made him famous. Available in English.
- Krieg / "War" (1986) – three plays
- Kontrolliert / "Controlled" (1988)
- Festung (1993) plays
- 1989 (1993) – a collage of media etc. from the years 1989 / 1990