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| Paul Pörtner (25 January 1925 – 16 November 1984) was a German playwright, | Paul Pörtner (25 January 1925 – 16 November 1984) was a German playwright, | ||
| novelist, translator, and editor. | novelist, translator, and editor. | ||
| Life | |||
| After doing an apprenticeship as director at the municipal theatre in his native town | |||
| of Wuppertal, Paul Pörtner began studying philosophy, and German and French | |||
| literature at the University of Cologne in 1951.Later on he continued his studies | |||
| in France. In 1958 he began earning his living as a professional author, and from | |||
| 1976 on he was permanently employed by Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg as a | |||
| director of radio plays. | |||
| His short stories and novels very often deal with “losers” – as a very young man, | |||
| he himself became handicapped while at war. His work shows Paul Pörtner to be a | |||
| writer who was deeply drawn to the burlesque as well as having his characters act in | |||
| desperate ways. He loved experimental language and word play. | |||
| His interest in avant-garde theatre led him to the theories of Jacob Levy Moreno, | |||
| Antonin Artaud and Erwin Piscator. However, through his work on stage as director | |||
| and playwright he fell under the charm of the comedia dell`arte, Kurt Schwitters or | |||
| Alfred Jarry. In 1963 Paul Pörtner invented the interactive play Scherenschnitt oder | |||
| Der Mörder sind Sie where the audience takes over the leading role. It premiered | |||
| the same year at the Ulmer Theatre, and thereafter, 75 German-speaking theatres | |||
| followed. In the USA Scherenschnitt, entitled Shear Madness, became the longest | |||
| running play ever done in American history. Eighteen productions in other countries | |||
| have made Scherenschnitt a singular international hit: following Agatha Christie`s | |||
| Mouse Trap, Paul Pörtner`s interactive play is the longest running play around the | |||
| world. | |||
| In addition to 17 theatre plays, Pörtner wrote more than 20 radio plays that are still | |||
| influential in this typically German genre. | |||
| Selected works | |||
| Publications | |||
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| Sternbild Selbstbild. Poems. Wuppertal 1958 | |||
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| Schattensteine. Poems. Wuppertal 1958 | |||
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| Wurzelwerk. Poems. Wuppertal 1960 | |||
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| Experiment Theater. Chronik und Dokumente. Chronicles and documents. Zürich 1960 | |||
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| Tobias Immergrün. Novel. Köln 1962 | |||
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| Sophie Imperator. Drama. Köln 1964 | |||
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| Scherenschnitt. Kriminalstück zum Mitspielen. Stage-play. Köln 1964 | |||
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| Gestern. Novel. Köln 1965 | |||
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| Einkreisung eines dicken Mannes. Erzählungen, Beschreibungen, Grotesken. Tales. | |||
| Köln 1968 | |||
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| Spontanes Theater. Erfahrungen, Konzepte. Essays. Köln 1972 | |||
| Plays | |||
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| Mensch Meier oder Das Glücksrad, 1959 | |||
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| Variationen für zwei Schauspieler, 1960 | |||
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| Sophie Imperator, 1961 | |||
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| Drei, 1962 | |||
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| Scherenschnitt oder Der Mörder sind Sie, 1963 | |||
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| Spielautomat, 1967 | |||
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| Mascha, Mischa und Mai. Stage-play for children, 1968 | |||
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| Börsenspiel, 1970 | |||
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| Kontaktprogramm, 1971 | |||
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| Interaktionen, 1971 | |||
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| Test Test Test, 1972 | |||
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| Polizeistunde, 1975 | |||
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| Halt Dich da raus, 1975 | |||
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| Tierspiel, 1978 | |||
| Radio Plays | |||
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| Was sagen Sie zu Erwin Mauss? Einkreisung eines dicken Mannes. NDR 1968 | |||
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| Scherben bringen Glück. WDR 1970 | |||
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| Alea. WDR/BR/SDR 1969 / 1971 | |||
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| Dadaphon. Hommage à Dada. WDR 1974 | |||
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| Comeback. Portrait einer Frau die singt. SR/NDR/BR 1977 | |||
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| Einmischung erbeten. HR 1977 | |||
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| Blitzlicht. HR 1980 | |||
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| Radio-Erinnerungen. NDR 1983 | |||
| Translations | |||
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| Alfred Jarry: König Ubu. Zürich 1959 | |||
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| Pablo Picasso, Jean Tardieu: Der Raum und die Flöte. Variationen zu 12 | |||
| Zeichnungen. Zürich 1959 | |||
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| Jean Tardieu: Kammertheater. Neuwied 1960 | |||
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| André Frénaud: Quelle der Quellen. Neuwied 1962 | |||
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| Jean Tardieu: Professor Froeppel. Köln 1966 | |||
| Web Links | |||
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| Literature by and about Paul Pörtner in the catalogue of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | |||
| (Datensatz zu Paul Pörtner • PICA-Datensatz • Apper-Personensuche) | |||
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| Paul Pörtner in the German and English versions of the Internet Movie Database | |||
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| Reinhard Döhl über Paul Pörtner | |||
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| Porträt der Stadtverwaltung Wuppertal | |||
Revision as of 20:45, 27 June 2011
Paul Pörtner (25 January 1925 – 16 November 1984) was a German playwright, novelist, translator, and editor.