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Now They Are Singing Again [Nun singen sie wieder]
Author(s): Max Frisch
A surrealistic play, subtitled Attempt at a Requiem, derives its ironic title from the repeated leitmotif of a song sung by twenty-one hostages executed by Nazis. Structured in seven parts, the first four detail the horrors of war, fascism, racism, and the assassinations of the victims. The final three show the inability of the murdered innocents to explain what can be learned from the war's inhumanity.
Format: Drama
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Schauspielhaus in Zurich, 1945
Schauspielhaus in Zurich, 1945
Nationality of Author: Swiss
Original Language: German
Publisher:
Frankfurt-On-Main: Suhrkamp, 1976
Experience(s) Chronicled: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators
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