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Endstation Sehnsucht / Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach

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Nach dem Verlust ihres stolzen Familiensitzes flieht Blanche DuBois, eine verblichene Südstaatenschönheit, zu ihrer Schwester Stella, die mit dem Arbeiter Stanley Kowalski verheiratet ist. Dessen aggressive Sexualität stößt Blanche ab. Stanley hasst Blanches affektiertes Verhalten und ihre Traditionsversessenheit. In der Enge der Wohnung im französischen Viertel von New Orleans kommt es schnell zu Spannungen, die in einer Katastrophe münden ... Marlon Brando wurde in der Rolle des Stanley Kowalski zu einer Ikone der amerikanischen Männlichkeit.

Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach handelt von einer reichen amerikanischen Farmer-Familie.
Der Titel entstammt einem amerikanischen Sprichwort, dem zufolge die Katze auf dem Dach so lange zögert hinunterzuspringen, bis das Dach überheiß wird; dann aber gibt es nichts Entschlosseneres als sie: Mit einem Satz springt sie. Die „Katze“ im Stück ist Maggie.

Mit den Beiträgen zu beiden Werken aus dem Neuen Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.

Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfass von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.

293 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1947

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Tennessee Williams

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Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth.

Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century, alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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