Biography
Tankred Dorst was born in Oberlind, Thuringia, in 1925 and died in Berlin in 2017. After military service and captivity he studied in Bamberg and Munich and in the 1950s wrote several plays for the student marionette theatre Das kleine Spiel. His first major plays opened in Lübeck and Mannheim in 1960, followed by works including Toller (1968), Eiszeit (1973) and Ich, Feuerbach (1986). From the 1970s onward he worked closely with Ursula Ehler, with whom he published most of his later works. His multi-part play Merlin oder Das wüste Land premiered at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in 1981. He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1990, and in 2006 he directed Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival.
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