ZUM TOD DES IRISCHEN DRAMATIKERS BRIAN FRIEL

Der am 9. Januar 1929 in Killyclogher bei Omagh (Nordirland) geborene irische Dramatiker Brian Friel (Bild) ist am 2. Oktober 2015 in Greencastle (County Donegal) gestorben.

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Schillernde Ambivalenzen

Der 1929 geborene Brian Friel gehörte zu den herausragenden Figuren der irischen Theaterszene. International bekannt wurde insbesondere sein mit Meryl Streep verfilmtes Stück «Dancing at Lughnasa».

Marion Löhndorf

http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/schillernde-ambivalenzen-1.18624292

When asked why he had two birth certificates, one dated 9 January 1929 and the other 10 January, the Irish playwright Brian Friel, who has died aged 86, replied: «Perhaps I’m twins.» The reaction was typical of a writer acclaimed for the clarity, economy and intensity of his language and his probing of public and private anxieties. Living at various times on either side of the Irish border, he was preoccupied with aspects of dualism: divided loyalties, tensions between fathers and sons, the two languages and the island’s two political states.

Richard Pine

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/02/brian-friel

He was acknowledged as one of the great playwrights of his generation.

His work was performed in theatres across the globe from the USA to Russia – where at one point three of his plays were running at the same time.

Friel was also, famously, a quiet man who shunned the limelight. He made his statements on the stage and let his plays speak for themselves.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-31055473

Mehr:

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Brian-Friel

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295486/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Friel