(Dear Fritz), premiered in 1975 Landestheater Darmstadt Männersache, 1972 Wunschkonzert (Request Concert), premiered in 1973 Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart Maria Magdalena after Friedrich Hebbel, premiered in 1973 Städtische Bühnen Heidelberg Geisterbahn (Funhouse Ride/Ghost Train), premiered in 1975 Ateliertheater am Naschmarkt Wien Das Nest (The Nest), premiered in 1975 Modernes Theater München Ein Mann ein Wörterbuch (new version of Männersache), premiered in 1976 Ateliertheater am Naschmarkt Wien 1976 Agnes Bernauer, premiered in 1977 Leipziger Theater Mensch Meier (Tom Fool), premiered in 1978, text seen in Brasil, play first performed in Düsseldorf Nicht Fisch nicht Fleisch (Neither Fish Nor Flesh), premiered in 1981 Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus Münchner Kindl (Munich Child), premiered in 1983 Theater k in Schwabinger Bräu München Der stramme Max, premiered in 1980 Bühnen der Stadt Essen, Ruhrfestspiele Translations In 1976 Michael Roloff translated some of Kroetz's plays into English, namely Stallerhof (Farmyard), Michis Blut (Michi's Blood), Männersache (Men's Business), and Ein Mann ein Wörterbuch (A Man a Dictionary). Roger Downey translated Wunschkonzert (Request Concert), Durch die Blätter (Through the Leaves, the final version of Men's Business), and Das Nest (The Nest). Some of Kroetz's plays have been performed in the United Kingdom, for example, in 2002, Through the Leaves at the Southwark Playhouse, in the United States, for example, in 1982, Michi's Blood in New York, as well as in Australia. Actor Trokadero (1981) Kir Royal (1986, TV series, 6 episodes) Der Leibwächter (1989, TV film) (2008) (2016, TV film) Further reading Richard W. Blevins: Franz Xaver Kroetz. The emergence of a political playwright. New York u. a.: Lang 1983. Gérard Thiériot: Franz Xaver Kroetz et le nouveau théâtre populaire. Berne u. a.: Lang 1987. (= Contacts; 1; 4) Ingeborg C. Walther: The theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz. New York u.a.: Lang 1990. (= Studies in modern German literature; 40) Michelle Mattson (Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies, Columbia University): Franz Xaver Kroetz. The Construction of a Political Aesthetic. Berg 1996 References External links ...was ich fürs Theater geschrieben hab in 45 Jahren kroetz-dramatik.de Franz Xaver Kroetz imagi-nation.com Franz, bring dich nicht um! Interview Die Zeit 2006 1946 births Living people Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Writers from Munich German male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights 21st-century German male writers 21st-century German dramatists and playwrights 20th-century German male writers