وقت الأبرياء

by Siegfried Lenz, زيجفريد لينتس, مصطفى ماهر (Translator)

روائع المسرح العالمي

184 pages

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Siegfried Lenz (1926 - 2014) was a German author who wrote twelve novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.

Lenz was the son of a customs officer in Lyck (Elk), East Prussia. After his graduation exam in 1943, he was drafted into the navy. According to documents released in June 2007, he may have joined the Nazi party on the 12th of July 1943. Shortly before the end of World War II, he defected to Denmark, but became a prisoner of war in Schleswig-Holstein.

After his release, he attended the University of Hamburg, where he studied philosophy, English, and Literary history. His studies were cut off early, however, as he became an intern for the daily paper Die Welt, and served as its editor from 1950 to 1951. It was there he met his future wife, Liselotte (d. February 5, 2006). They were married in 1949.

Since 1951, Lenz worked as a freelance writer in Hamburg and was a member of the literature forum "Group 47." Together with Günter Grass, he became engaged with the Social Democratic Party and aided the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt. A champion of the movement, he was invited in 1970 to the signing of the German-Polish Treaty.

Since 2003, Lenz was a visiting professor at the Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine University and a member of the organization for German orthography and proper speech.

Reviews

[Mohamed Osman · Rating 3 out of 5]

"إنكم مدينون لبرائتكم المطلقة بهذا الحبس"

تسعة أشخاص أبرياء، يتم وضعهم في زنزانة واحدة مع شخص حاول الاعتداء على
الأسرة الحاكمة وبائت محاولته بالفشل، لذلك قرر الحاكم أن يضعهم في زنزانة واحدة
مع هذا الثائر حتى يعترف عن شركائه، أو يعلن تخليه عن معتقداته وأنه مستعد للتعاون
مع النظام الحاكم، أو أن يتخذوا بشأنه ما يريدوا من قرار حيث لهم مطلق الحرية في فعل
ما يريدون معه، وفي المقابل يعرف الثائر أنهم أبرياء وأن الجميع يقبع في هذه الزنزانة
بسببه وأنه هو بوابة الخروج الوحيدة من هذه الزنزانة ومن هنا تبدأ اللعبة

تسعة أشخاص يرى النظام الحاكم أنهم أبرياء، فهل هم حقا أبرياء!؟
هل مصير تسعة أهم من مصير واحد !؟
هل يبرر الخيانة أن ترتكب باسم عدد كبير من البشر !؟

هذه المسرحية ذكرتني بتجربة سجن ستانفورد الشهيرة التي تمت على يد عالم النفس فيليب زيمباردو في السبعينات، وذكرتني أيضا بمعضلة أخلاقية شهيرة تعرف باسم
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