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Botho Strauss' Schlusschor 

An introduction to «Schlusschor», directed by Luc Bondy. and the first of three plays by Botho Strauss in the Schaubühne «replacement» series. «Schlusschor» can be considered as the most important post-unification play from a West-German perspective, writes our contributor Thomas Irmer.

Botho Strauss’ three-act play Schlusschor can be seen as the most important post-unification play from a West German perspective. Set in the last years of the old FRG and, with its third act, in that very night the Berlin wall falls, it shows a rich panoramic picture of mentalities on individual and national levels. At that point Strauss was well established as a playwright and prose-writer chronicling the developments of the West German mind during the 1970s and 1980s.

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