Tales from the Vienna Wood
by Ödön von Horváth
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'Don't spoil her, Oskar, or you'll pay dear for it. You wouldn't believe what I had to put up with in my marriage. Not because madam, my wife, God bless her, was a vicious-tongued cow, but because I was too decent. Never lose your authority! Keep your distance! Patriarchy, not matriarchy! Keep your head up and your thumbs pressed firmly down. Ave Caesar; morituri te salutant!' Set against the sentimental backdrop of the Vienna Woods and to the distant tune of a Strauss waltz, a community show more steeped in bigotry concerns itself with love affairs, petty squabbles, jealousies and personal tragedy. Meanwhile society at large, haunted by inflation, goes reeling towards Fascism. This energetic, hugely entertaining epic premièred in Berlin in 1931 as Nazi forces were gaining in strength. Tales from the Vienna Woods, in this new version, was premièred at the National Theatre on the Olivier stage in October 2003. show lessTags
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This was my first exposure to Horvath and I was genuinely impressed. It is a wonderfully complex story with many levels of interaction between the characters. The e-book format is also good. For people based in the Munich area, I can also strongly recommend the production of this play at the Volkstheater.
I had not even heard of Horvath until I saw a performance of this drama. It was so brilliant, I decided to read it as well. This is highly recommended.
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suhrkamp taschenbuch (0835 / 4020)
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Reclam Erläuterungen und Dokumente : Ödön von Horváth : Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald [2000] by Christine Schmidjell
Reclam Erläuterungen und Dokumente : Ödön von Horváth : Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald [2009] by Christine Schmidjell
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- Canonical title
- Tales from the Vienna Wood
- Original title
- Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald
- Original publication date
- 1931
- Original language
- German
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 832.912
- Disambiguation notice
- Please do not combine with student guides which also include the text.
351846020X 2008 softcover German suhrkamp taschenbuch 4020
351874383X 2015 eBook softcover German suhrkamp
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- 5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian (Nynorsk)
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- ISBNs
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