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Carl Zuckmayer

カール・ツックマイヤー

Kāru Zukkumaiyā

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1896-12-27 （Nackenheim）
Died
1977-01-18 （Visp） age 80
Nationality
German, American, Swiss
Languages
German
Residence History
Mainz → Henndorf → Barnard, Vermont → Saas-Fee

Career

Occupations
Writer, Playwright, Screenwriter
Active Years
1917-1977
Affiliations
Deutsches Theater (Berlin), Theatre of Kiel
Influenced By
Bertolt Brecht
Influenced
Helmut Käutner

Education

Goethe University Frankfurt
Humanities, Biology, Botany
Period: 1919頃
Country: Germany
Did not complete degree

Awards

Kleist Prize
1925
Work: The Merry Vineyard
Organization: Kleist Foundation
Result: 受賞
Georg Büchner Prize
1929
Work: Script for The Blue Angel
Organization: Society for the Promotion of German Literature
Result: 受賞
Goethe Prize
1952
Organization: City of Frankfurt
Result: 受賞
Bundesverdienstkreuz
1955
Organization: Federal Republic of Germany
Result: 受賞
Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature
1960
Organization: Austrian Government
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Merry Vineyard

1925 Comedy

Rustic comedy in Mainz-Frankfurt dialect.

Rural lifeHumanity
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Merry Vineyard / Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck (1927)
  • [Film] The Merry Vineyard / Erich Engel (1952)
Translations
  • The Merry Vineyard

Bibliography

  • Der fröhliche Weinberg (1925)
  • Schinderhannes (1927)
  • The Captain of Köpenick (1931)
  • The Devil's General (1946)

Adaptations

  • Many works adapted to films

Translations by Author

  • Script for The Blue Angel

Translations of Works

  • The Captain of Köpenick
  • The Devil's General

Style & Themes

Literary Style
SatiricalDialect useRealism
Recurring Motifs
Critique of NazismHuman moralityHistorical events

Legacy

Important 20th-century German playwright who exiled during Nazi era and prominent post-war.

Archives

  • Carl Zuckmayer Society

In Popular Culture

  • Asteroid 8058 Zuckmayer named after him

Trivia

  • Maternal grandfather was Jewish convert to Protestantism.
  • Older brother was educator and composer Eduard Zuckmayer.