Das Werk Explained

Das Werk (The Works, sometimes translated as The Plant) is a play by the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek.

About

It premiered at the Akademietheater in Vienna on 11 April 2003, under the direction of Nicolas Stemann.^[1] Based on historical events, the play depicts the suffering of workers building a large power plant in the town of Kaprun.^[2] The Nazi government used slave labor for the project, then after the end of World War II, construction was completed using mostly foreign workers.^[3]

Further reading

• Book: Dürbeck, Gabriele . Monolog und Perücke: Nicolas Stemanns Inszenierungen von El-friede Jelineks Das Werk, Babel und Ulrike Maria Stuart . Ortrud . Gutjahr . Ulrike Maria Stuart von Elfriede Jelinek: Uraufführung am Thalia Theater Hamburg in der Inszenierung von Nicolas Stemann . Königshausen & Neumann . Würzburg . 2007 . 82–93.
• Book: Gérard . Thieriot . Christian . Schenkermayr . In den Alpen; Das Werk; Ein Sturz; Kein Licht . Pia . Janke . Jelinek-Handbuch . Springer-Verlag . 2013 . 978-3-476-02367-4 . 185–190.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Das Werk (i.e., "The Works") . . 22 July 2018.
2. Pages. Neil Christian. June 2010. Jelinek, une répétition? A propos des pièces "In den Alpen" et "Das Werk"/Jelinek, eine Wiederholung? Zu den Theaterstücken "In den Alpen" und "Das Werk. Modern Austrian Literature. en. 43. 2. 98–100. subscription . EBSCOhost.
3. Gita . Honegger . Staging Memory: The Drama Inside the Language of Elfriede Jelinek . Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature . 31 . 1 . January 2007 . 10.4148/2334-4415.1653 . 295–297. free .