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Cologne (dpa / lnw) - The playwright Martin Crimp (65) receives the Jürgen Bansemer & Ute Nyssen playwright's prize endowed with 15,000 euros.
The Englishman will be honored for his plays, which are captivating with their mysterious tension, said juror and theater publisher Ute Nyssen on Thursday in Cologne.
In recent years his plays have also been performed on German theaters, including at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Schauspiel Köln (“Sleeping Men”, “Everything else you know from the cinema”).
Crimp dissect "a dramatic web of threatening dependencies and cruel power struggles," the jury praised.
In addition to plays, the London-based author has also published radio plays, opera libretti and translations.
He is the twelfth recipient of the privately funded award.
René Pollesch, Juli Zeh and the South African playwright Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom have received awards so far.
Since a public award ceremony cannot take place in Cologne due to the corona, the laudation is to appear in the magazine “Theater heute” in May.
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