Ein Sportstück
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Ein Sportstück is a play by Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...

. It was first published in 1998.

The playwright examines our obsession with the publicly waged battle of sports.
The premiere took place on 23 January 1998 at the Burgtheater
Burgtheater
The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...

 in Vienna under the auspices of the German Einar Schleef
Einar Schleef
Einar Schleef was a German dramatist, director, set designer, writer, painter, photographer, and actor....

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