Stefan Schütz

Stefan Schütz was born in Memel in 1944. He attended the State Academy of Acting in Berlin. Helene Weigel hired him for the Berliner Ensemble. He began writing for the theatre in 1970. In 1979, he received the Gerhard-Hauptmann Award of the Freie Volksbühne. In 1980, Stefan Schütz moved to West Germany. This is where his major novels were written, Medusa, for instance, for which he received the Alfred-Döblin Award. Until his death in December 2022 Stefan Schütz lived in Oldenburg/Holstein for many years.

Stage plays

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Der Hahn
8 D, 13 H
In Stefan Schütz’s play, the eponymous rooster infiltrates the petit-bourgeois ... more
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Die Amazonen
7 D, 10 H
I believe that myth is, as Hölderlin says, a new departure in human history. And ... more
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Stefan Schütz, Euripides
Die Bakchen nach Euripides
2 D, 9 H
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Die nackte Insel
1 D, 3 H
Roman and Sofia wake up alone on a small deserted island. The last thing they ... more
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Die Schweine
2 D, 8 H
The pigs are getting a new barn. Selma has had the new building put up because ... more
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Die Seidels (Groß & Gross)
3 D, 5 H
At centre stage are Groß and Gross. They are both coming to terms with their ... more
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Fabrik im Walde
11 D, 22 H
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Gloster
3 D, 21 H
Stefan Schütz’s play Gloster tells the fable of Shakespeare’s Richard III from ... more
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Heloisa und Abaelard
2 D, 16 H
“Jesus crucified by the pope”. The ecclesiastical dogma has perverted its ... more
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Hotel Abendland
5 D, 6 H
Hotel Abendland is a venomous detective story about life and death, a battle ... more
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Iokaste Felsen Meer
7 D, 21 H
At the centre of Stefan Schütz’s new play about the fall of the Berlin Wall and ... more
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Johanna Papissa
2 D, 6 H
The great emancipation story of a woman of the people in the early Middle Ages. ... more
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Kohlhaas
7 D, 26 H
Representation of the course of history and the associated requirements of a ... more
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Laokoon
3 D
For this play, Schütz uses the old Greek legend of the Trojan seer Laocoön, but ... more
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Majakowski
2 D, 12 H
Fifty years ago, the poet of the Russian revolution, Vladimir Mayakovski, ... more
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Molek
5 D, 17 H
Molek, exponent of capitalism and owner of a bed company, is on the brink of ... more
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Monsieur X oder Die Witwe des Radfahrers
2 D, 5 H
The Chief Robot tells of a time long ago, the Human Era, in which there still ... more
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Net & Nan
1 D, 5 H, 1 Dek
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Net & Nan
1 D, 5 H
Nan lays himself down to die. But you have to wait for Death. Net, whom he ... more
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Odysseus' Heimkehr
3 D, 14 H
“When Stefan Schütz’s Odysseus, after years of wandering, wakes up hungry and ... more
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Orestobsession
2 D, 4 H
Orestobsession is a brave attempt at drawing a relationship between the antique ... more
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Peyotè oder mein Freund der Indianer
1 H
How do people tolerate life, how and where do we direct ourselves between its ... more
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Planetenpflegeheim
2 D, 2 H
Semlja is old, her mind is addled, and so she lives in a nursing home where her ... more
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Richard Toll
2 D, 11 H
… a German comedy? An all out fight! There is a punk, business people, there is ... more
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Stefan Schütz
Spectacle Cressida
3 D
Shakespeare underestimated the archaic in his material. Chaucer didn’t care ... more
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Urschwejk
1 D, 5 H
Švejk, the hero from Jaroslav Hašek’s novel The Good Soldier Švejk, is at the ... more
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Wer von euch
1 D, 5 H
You all. And no ‘buts’. Not ‘them there’, no ‘we’.And yet: Who amongst you is ... more
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Werwölfe
6 D, 17 H
A country in a time of upheaval – the Soviet Union. In these tumultuous times, a ... more
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Radio plays

Stefan Schütz
Peyotè oder mein Freund der Indianer
Wie hält der Mensch das Leben aus, wie und wozu richtet er sich ein zwischen ... more
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Miscellaneous

Stefan Schütz

»Ich komme vom Mond und bin auf der Erde nur zwischengelandet« – Im Gedenken an Stefan Schütz (*1944 - ♱2022)

20.12.2022
Wir trauern um unseren Autor Stefan Schütz, der am 13. Dezember im Alter von 78 Jahren gestorben ist. Geboren 1944 in Memel, dem heutigen Klaipėda in Litauen, lebte er ab 1950 in Ost-Berlin, wo er ab 1963 die Staatliche Schauspielschule besuchte. Nach Engagements in Neustrelitz und Halle engagierte Helene Weigel ihn 1968 an das Berliner Ensemble. Seine ersten Theatertexte entstanden ab ... mehr