Tankred Dorst

Tankred Dorst (born 19 December 1925) is a German playwright and storyteller.

Tankred Dorst currently lives and works in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations are inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett. His monumental drama Merlin oder das wüste Land, which was premiered in 1981 in Düsseldorf, has been compared to Goethe's Faust. Some critics see it as the first major drama of the 1980s. In his tribute to Tankred Dorst on the occasion of the conferment of the Georg Büchner Prize in 1990, Georg Hensel remarked, that Dorst's plays all have a direct connection to the present:

Tankred Dorst first directed the Ring of the Nibelung in Bayreuth in 2006.

Biography

Tankred Dorst was born in Sonneberg, Thuringia.