החייל הרזה ואחרים

חנוך לוין: מחזות #11

by Hanoch Levin, חנוך לוין

בכרך זה, האחרון בסדרת מחזותיו המקובצים של חנוך לוין, מובאים המחזות: 'תיאופנו היפה'; 'החייל הרזה'; 'מוריס שימל'; 'הבכיינים'; 'איחש פישר'; 'המביט'. כולם מעזבונו של חנוך לוין. 'הבכיינים', המחזה האחרון שכתב לוין, הוצג בתיאטרון לאחר מותו (לוין החל לביים אותו בימיו האחרונים, כששכב בבית-החולים, ולאחר מותו השלים אילן רונן את עבודת הבימוי). ב-2011 העלה התיאטרון הקאמרי את 'איחש פישר', בבימוי של רוני פינקוביץ'.

תֵיאוֹפָנוֹ היפה 1998
החייל הרזה 1998
מוריס שימל 1998
הבכיינים 1998
איחש פישר 1999
המביט 1999

272 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Hanoch Levin (1943-1999), one of Israel`s leading dramatists, was born in Tel Aviv. He grew up in a religious home in the Neve Shaanan neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv. As a child, he attended the Yavetz State Religious School. In the 1950s, his brother, David, who was nine years older than him, worked as an assistant director at the Cameri Theater. Hanoch attended Zeitlin Religious High School in Tel Aviv. After ninth grade, he left school to help support the family. He worked as a messenger boy for the Herut company and took classes at a night school for working youth at the Ironi Aleph middle school. There he joined a drama club. After serving his compulsory military duty, Levin began to study philosophy and Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University (1964-1967).
At first he wrote poetry, but later concentrated on the theater. He became resident playwright of the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and also worked with Habimah, Israel`s national theater.
Levin wrote 50 plays, 34 of which have been staged. His work includes comedies, tragedies and satiric cabarets, most of which he directed himself. In addition, he published five books of short stories and poems and a book for children. He received numerous theater awards both in Israel and abroad - most notably at the Edinburgh Festival -and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994.