Marius von Mayenburg is a German playwright, translator, and also instructor.

In 1994, Mayenburg began his studies at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. His first play, Haarmann, was first performed at Baracke (Deutsches Theater in Berlin) in 1996.

Fireface

Fireface

Fireface is a play by Marius von Mayenburg, written in 1997 and first performed in 1998 at the Munich Kammerspiele...

(German: "Feuergesicht"), written in 1997, was his breakthrough as a dramatist. The play was performed at Kammerspiele in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 the following year. Then it was played at the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder)

Frankfurt (Oder)

Frankfurt is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, located on the Oder River, on the German-Polish border directly opposite the town of Słubice which was a part of Frankfurt until 1945. At the end of the 1980s it reached a population peak with more than 87,000 inhabitants...

 and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. The Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 performance gained the most attention.

For Fireface, Mayenburg was awarded Kleistförderpreis für junge Dramatiker and Preis der Frankfurter Autorenstiftung.

Plays

• Haarmann (1996)
• Fräulein Danzer (1996)
• Monsterdämmerung (1997)
• Feuergesicht (1997)
• Parasiten (1999)
• Das kalte Kind (2002)
• Eldorado (2004)
• Turista (2005)
• Augenlicht (2006)
• Der Häßliche (2007)
• Der Hund, die Nacht und das Messer (2008)

External links

• Marius von Mayenburg: New German dramatic art. Goethe-Institut
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