July 25, 2007
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Variations:
The Comedy of
George Tabori
From AP “Obituaries in the News”–Filed with The New York Times
at 11:16 p.m. ET July 24, 2007–
George Tabori
“BERLIN (AP) — Hungarian-born playwright and
director George Tabori, a legend in Germany’s postwar theater world
whose avant-garde works confronted anti-Semitism, died Monday [July 23, 2007]. He was
93.Tabori, who as recently as three years ago dreamed of returning to stage to play the title role in Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear,’ died in his apartment near the theater, the Berliner
Ensemble said Tuesday, noting that friends and family had accompanied
him through his final days. No cause of death was given.Born
into a Jewish family in Budapest on May 24, 1914, Tabori fled in 1936
to London, where he started working for the British Broadcasting Corp.,
and became a British citizen. His father, and other members of his
family, were killed at Auschwitz.Tabori moved to Hollywood in
the 1950s, where he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably co-writing
the script for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1953 film, ‘I Confess.’He
moved to Germany in the 1970s and launched a theater career that
spanned from acting to directing to writing. He used sharp wit and
humor in his plays to examine the relationship between Germany and the
Jews, as well as attack anti-Semitism.Among his best-known works are ‘Mein Kampf,’ set in the Viennese
hostel where Adolf Hitler lived from 1910-1913, and the ‘Goldberg
Variations,’ both dark farces that poke fun at the Nazis.”From Year of Jewish Culture:
“The year 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Museum in Prague.”
From the related page Programme (October-December):
“Divadlo v Dlouhé
George Tabori: GOLDBERGOVSKÉ VARIACE / THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, 19 October, 7 p.m. A comedy on creation and martyrdom.”From Log24 on the date of
the Prague production of the
Tabori “Goldberg Variations,”
an illustration in honor of
Sir Thomas Browne, who
was born, and died,
on that date:
The above is from
Variable Resolution 4–k Meshes:
Concepts and Applications (pdf),
by Luiz Velho and Jonas Gomes.See also Symmetry Framed
and The Garden of Cyrus.Theme
(Plato, Meno)
Click on “variations” above
for some material on
the “Goldberg Variations”
of Johann Sebastian Bach.
