Peter Hacks

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Peter Hacks


Born
March 21, 1928

Died
August 28, 2003


Peter Hacks was a German playwright, author, and essayist. Hacks was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht. Hacks then followed Brecht to East Berlin in 1955. However, a continued cooperation between him and Brecht did not arise. From 1960 Hacks worked as a dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater (DT) in Berlin.

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Ein Gespräch im Hause Stein...

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Der Bär auf dem Försterball

4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1976 — 12 editions
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Liebkind im Vogelnest

4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006
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Zur Romantik

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Marxistische Hinsichten. Po...

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Meta Morfoß und ein Märchen...

3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions
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Amphitryon

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Diesem Vaterland nicht mein...

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Margarete In Aix: Komödie I...

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Hundert Gedichte

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“Wir können uns von Shakespeare unterscheiden, durch Fehler.”
Peter Hacks

“Trifft man nicht in jedem beliebigen Gesellschaftszustand die Sorte der Aussteiger- und Verweigerungskünstler, die außer einer Bodenkammer und einem Regenschirm fürs Bett gar nichts bedurften, und gleichzeitig mit denen jene Sänger, die mit dem König nicht nur gehen, sondern auch speisen wollten?”
Peter Hacks, Die Maßgaben der Kunst

“Als sie Stalin kippten, das war klar,
War auch Lenin nicht mehr lang zu haben.”
peter hacks, Diesem Vaterland nicht meine Knochen

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