Word: nther
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production is the work of two Austrians, Stage Director Otto Schenk and Set Designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen. Schenk treated the story simply and with his designer's help has placed it against handsome, mood-filled back drops. The inside of Venus' home, for example, is a steadily shifting vision of pools, waterfalls, trysting places and writhing bodies. Much of its look is achieved with rear projections on a curved, cyclorama-type screen. The dissolution of Venusberg as Tannhäuser is expelled is both swift and wizardry...
...BOAT by LOTHAR-GÜNTHER BUCHHEIM 463 pages. Knopf...
Literary Gimbals. Lothar-Günther Buchheim served on U-boats as a documentary journalist working for the Nazi government. Now the author resurrects that darkly romantic image in a novel that two years ago was a controversial bestseller in Germany. Whatever Buchheim's intention, his commander, a dour 30-year-old invariably referred to as the Old Man, comes off as the foreman of a band of master plumbers who seem to spend most of their time wrapped around greasy tubing talking about their alley-cat sex lives...
William Shakespeare was powerless to prevent West Side Story. Tennessee Williams is luckier. When Director Charles Lang of West Berlin's Freie Volksbühne theater decided to stage a revisionist production of Williams' classic Streetcar Named Desire, he cast black actor Günther Kaufmann as the red necked Stanley Kowalski. Lang's other change was even more radical: rather than being raped by Kowalski, Blanche DuBois is seduced by him. Tennessee learned of Lang's plans just before the opening and immediately got an injunction to stop the performance. Ruling the show could...
West Germans were stunned when Willy Brandt resigned as Chancellor last month after his longtime aide Gunter Guillaume had been arrested on charges of being an East German spy. They were startled again when Günther Nollau, head of Bonn's principal internal security agency, the BfV, conceded in a television interview that other spies of "Guillaume's caliber" were probably operating at the highest levels of govern ment. Now the country is reeling from a third shock: allegations that Nollau himself has been an East German...