Editing Botho Strauss

{{short description|German playwright, novelist, and essayist}}
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| image            = Oliver Mark - Botho Strauß, Uckermark 2007 (2).jpg
| caption          = Botho Strauß photographed by [[Oliver Mark]], Uckermark 2007
| birth_name       = 
| birth_date       = {{birth-date and age|2 December 1944}}
| birth_place      = [[Naumburg]], Germany
| occupation       = {{Hlist|Playwright|novelist|essayist}}
| awards           = {{ublist|[[Jean-Paul-Preis]] (1987)|[[Georg Büchner Prize]] (1989)}}
}}{{Conservatism in Germany|Intellectuals}}

'''Botho Strauss''' ({{IPA|de|ˈboːtoː ˈʃtʁaʊs|lang|De-Botho Strauß.ogg}}; written as Botho Strauß) (born 2 December 1944) is a German [[playwright]], [[novelist]], and [[essayist]].<ref name="Adelson1984">{{cite book|last=Adelson|first=Leslie A.|title=Crisis of subjectivity: Botho Strauss's challenge to West German prose of the 1970s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4z0U3NQEV0C&pg=PA240|access-date=25 April 2011|year=1984|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-6203-906-7|pages=240ff}}</ref>

== Early life ==
His father was a chemist.

After finishing his secondary education, Strauss studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Cologne and Munich. He never finished his dissertation on ''[[Thomas Mann]] und das Theater''. During his studies, he worked as an extra at the [[Munich Kammerspiele]].

== Career ==
[[File:Oliver Mark - Botho Strauß, Uckermark 2007.jpg|thumb|left|Botho Strauß photographed by [[Oliver Mark]] in his forest in the Uckermark, 2007]]
From 1967 to 1970, he was a critic and editorial journalist for the journal ''[[:de:Theater heute|Theater heute]]'' (''Theater Today''). Between 1970 and 1975, he worked as a [[Dramaturge|dramaturgical]] assistant to [[Peter Stein (director)|Peter Stein]] at the West Berlin [[:de:Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer|Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer]].

After his first attempt as a writer, a [[Maxim Gorky|Gorky]] film adaptation, he decided to work as a writer. Strauss had his first breakthrough as a dramatist with the 1977 ''Trilogie des Wiedersehens'', five years after the publication of his first work. In 1984, he published ''[[The Young Man|Der Junge Mann]]'' (''The Young Man)'', translated by Roslyn Theobald in 1995.

With a 1993 ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' essay, ''Anschwellender Bocksgesang'' ("Swelling He-Goat Song")<ref group="N" name="He-goat song">"He-goat song" is the translation of the Greek "[[Wikt:τραγῳδία|τραγῳδία]]" ("[[tragedy]]")</ref><ref name="Anschwellender Bocksgesang - DER SPIEGEL">{{Cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13681004.html |title=Anschwellender Bocksgesang |first=Botho |last=Strauss |work=[[Der Spiegel]]| date=8 February 1993 |language=de |access-date=15 October 2019}}</ref> a critical examination of modern civilisation, he triggered a major political controversy as his conservative politics was anathema to many.

In his theoretical work, Strauß showed the influence of [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[Martin Heidegger|Heidegger]], and [[Theodor W. Adorno|Adorno]], but his outlook was also radically anti-[[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]].

In 2014, [[Carl Hanser Verlag]] brought out a compendium of Strauß’s [[aphorism]]s called ''Allein mit allen'', spanning close to four decades from 1977 to 2013, and edited by German scholar Sebastian Kleinschmidt.

Strauss lives in [[Berlin]] as well as in the nearby [[Uckermark]] region. In 2017, he switched from his long-time publisher Carl Hanser Verlag to [[Rowohlt Verlag]].<ref name="Botho Strauß künftig bei Rowohlt">{{Cite web|date=26 January 2017|url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-autor_verlaesst_hanser_verlag.1282638.html|title=Botho Strauß künftig bei Rowohlt|language=de|work=Boersenblatt.net|access-date=6 February 2017}}</ref>

==Recognition==
*1974: Hannoverscher Dramatikerpreis
*1977: Förderpreis of the Schiller Memorial Prize
*1981: [[Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste]]
*1982: [[Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis]]
*1987: [[Jean-Paul-Preis|Jean Paul Prize]]
*1989: [[Georg Büchner Prize]]
*1993: [[Theaterpreis Berlin|Berlin Theatre Prize]]
*2001: {{ill|Lessing-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg|de}}
*2007: [[Schiller-Gedächtnispreis|Schiller Memorial Prize]]

==Notes==
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== References ==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/nds/nds/aut/str/enindex.htm Botho Strauß: New German dramatic art.] [[Goethe-Institut]]s Website
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1DC1630F93AA15751C1A960958260 "Books in Brief: Fiction" on ''Couples, Passersby''] by Erik Burns, ''[[The New York Times]]'' (29 December 1996)

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