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Thomas Hürlimann

Plays

  • "Mein allerliebstes Krokodil" ("My Favourite Crocodile")
    Premiered at the Teatro Ticino, Wädenswil, 2002
  • "Synchron" ("Dubbing")
    Premiered at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, 2002
  • "Einsiedler-Welttheater" ("Hermit World Theatre")
    Premiered at the Einsiedeln Monastery, 2001
  • "Alpen-Hegel" ("Alpine Hegel")
    Premiered at the Hanover Schauspielhaus, 2000
  • "Aufstand der Schwingbesen" ("Uprising of the Swinging Brooms")
    Premiered at the Szene Zürich, 2000
  • "Das Lied der Heimat" ("Song of the Homeland")
    Premiered at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, 1998
  • "Carleton"
    Premiered at the Zürich Theater am Neumarkt, 1996
  • "De Franzos im Ybrig" (in Swiss German)
    Premiered by the Chärnehus Einsiedeln im Roßstallhof Theatre Group, Einsiedeln Monastery, 1991, and in the Zürich Schauspielhaus, 1995
  • "Der Gesandte" ("The Envoy")
    Premiered at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, 1991
    Revised version at the Berne Stadttheater, 1993
  • "Der letzte Gast" ("The Last Guest")
    Premiered at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, 1990
  • "Frunz, Fragment eines Anfangs" ("Frunz, Fragment of a Beginning"), 1991
  • "Stichtag" ("Deadline")
    Premiered at the Zürich Schauspielhaus and the Stuttgart Staatstheater, 1984
  • "Großvater und Halbbruder" ("Grandfather and Half-Brother")
    Premiered at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, 1981

    Synchron ("Dubbing")

    Sibylle and Franz, who want to see themselves as an ideal couple, get caught up in the impossibility of jointly experiencing the present moment. Sibylle dreams of a career in the theatre and Frunz, a writer by profession, of writing the perfect role for her. The reality is rather different. They work in a dubbing studio where Frunz and Sibylle lend their voices to performers in porno films - together with another couple, Elfi and Meier-Quassi, who are responsible for the crucial noises off. More ...