Thomas Brasch (19 February 1945 – 3 November 2001) was a German author, poet and film director.
German author, poet and film director (1945–2001)
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Thomas Brasch in 1993
Life
Born in Westow, Yorkshire, England, Thomas Brasch was the son of German Jewish Communist émigré parents.[1] In 1947, the family returned to East Germany.[2] Brasch attended school in Cottbus.[2] From 1956 to 1960, he was at the National People's Army Cadet School and made his Abitur.[2] From 1964, he studied journalism in Leipzig and was forced in 1965 to ex-matriculate.[2] Since 1966 he worked at the theater Volksbühne Berlin.[2] and studied dramaturgy at the film school Babelsberg afterwards. In 1968, he was relegated and imprisoned for "anti-state agitation", because of the protest against the invasion of the CSSR.[3][2] In 1971, after being a miller in a Berlin factory, he worked in the Brecht archive and was then freelance writer. In 1976, after protesting against Wolf Biermann's expatriation, he moved to West Germany.[2]
In May 2012, Brasch's play Lovely Rita was performed in English for the first time in the Warwick Arts Centre.[6]
US productions
In November 1976, Brasch's theatre piece Paper Tiger was performed in English for the first time at the 4th International Bertolt Brecht Conference in Austin, Texas,[7] with music composed by Raymond Benson. Benson subsequently directed an off-off-Broadway production of the musical in New York, New York, in September 1980.[8]
"Wer durch mein Leben will, muß durch mein Zimmer", poetry, Frankfurt (Main) 2002
"Was ich mir wünsche", poetry, Frankfurt (Main) 2007
"Du einsamer, du schöner Wicht", audio book, read by Katharina Thalbach and Anna Thalbach, Hoffmann&Campe 2007
Filmography
1981 – Engel aus Eisen – Director and screenwriter (with Hilmar Thate, Katharina Thalbach, Peter Brombacher, Klaus Pohl, Ulrich Wesselmann and Karin Baal). That was the first movie by Brasch. In 1981 he was awarded the Bayerischer Filmpreis. His acceptance speech was controversial, since Brasch explicitly thanked the Filmhochschule der DDR for his education.
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