Fiction
In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts / In Times of Fading Light
by Eugen Ruge
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An adaptation of the famous novel for the theatre
In 2011-2012, the family saga In Times of Fading Light written by German Book Prize winner Eugen Ruge was leading the bestsellers lists. Only a few know that the novel has its roots in a former theatre play. The German Theater Berlin recognized in Ruge’s narrative style how much the characters are molded by his monologues. Therefore, Eugen Ruge worked again on his family story to adapt the novel into a play for the big stage. The theatrical dramatization opens a new view on the story with higher focus on the conflicts inside the family. The family Umnitzer who was scattered to the four winds during the Second World War meet again at the beginning of the Fifties in the new-built German Democratic Republic. Four generations of the family members look for their own way through life in the GDR and after the fall of Communism.
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Author Biography
Eugen Ruge is born in 1954 in Soswa (Soviet Union). He studied mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and was then a scientific employee at the Central Earth Physics Institute of Berlin. Later he worked as a freelancer at the DEFA (publicly owned film studio in he GDR) and at the “Theater im Palast” in Berlin. Since 1989, he writes for theatre, radio and cinema. He received several prizes for his work such as the “Schiller Förderpreis des Landes Baden-Würtemberg” and the Alfred Döblin Prize. For his novel In Times of Fading Light, he received the Aspekte Literature Prize and the “Buchpreis des Deutschen Buchhandels” (Prize of the German Book Trade).
Merlin Verlag - Andreas Meyer Verlags GmbH & Co. KG
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- Publisher Merlin Verlag
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783875363043
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
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