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Ewald Palmetshofer

Plays

  • “faust hat hunger und verschluckt sich an einer grete” (“faust is hungry and chokes on gretchen”)
    Schauspielhaus Vienna, 2009
  • “Das Ende kommt schon noch. Deutschlandsaga - die 90er Jahre” (“It will soon be over: Deutschland Saga – the 1990s”)
    Short play commissioned for the Schaubühne Berlin 2008, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
  • “wohnen. unter glas” (“living. under glass”)
    Schauspielhaus Vienna, 2008
  • “hamlet ist tot. keine schwerkraft” (“hamlet is dead. no gravity”)
    Schauspielhaus Vienna, 2007
  • “sauschneidn. ein mütterspiel” (“gelding. a drama of motherhood”)
    Schauspielhaus Vienna, 2007
  • “helden” (“Superheroes”)
    Schauspielhaus Vienna, 2007

„tier. man wird doch bitte unterschicht“de

Ein Ort am Rand, irgendwo. Erika geht ab und zu dem alten Schuldirektor pflegerisch zur Hand. Sein Sohn lebt in der Stadt, sich um den Vater kümmern kann er nicht.More ...

Faust hat hunger und verschluckt sich an einer grete (Faust is Hungry)

If the past century was characterised by the frenzied pursuit of the total, we are still searching frenziedly, even though we have left politics behind and retreated into the comfort of private life. We rush on from one product to the next, until there is only one thing left to consume: our fellow human beings. More ...

hamlet ist tot. keine schwerkraft (“hamlet is dead. no gravity”)

Dani and Mani come home. It is their grandma’s birthday, apart from which a friend from earlier, Hannes, has just died. So they find themselves celebrating a birthday and then going to a funeral as well. By chance, Dani and Mani bump into Bine and Oli at the cemetery. They have not been together for a long time, since the days when Oli was good friends with Mani, and Dani was good friends with Bine, and they were all good friends with one another. More ...