Nachtland

· Faber & Faber
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The people who buy paintings like this aren't just driven by aesthetic desire. People who buy paintings like this want a story. A story that catapults them into the orbit of the Führer.

As Nicola and Philipp are clearing out their late father's house, they find an old painting stashed in the attic: a quaint watercolour of a church on a pale summer day, signed 'A. Hitler'.

Nicola wants to sell it. Philipp wants to keep it. Philipp's wife Judith wants to burn it.

A jagged satire from one of Germany's foremost playwrights, Nachtland opened at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in February 2024.

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Marius von Mayenburg was born in 1972 in Munich. In 1998 he began a collaboration with Thomas Ostermeier at Deutsches Theater in Berlin that continued, from 1999, at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin. He was awarded several prizes for his first play Fireface (1997). Since then he has written numerous plays, including The Ugly One, The Stone, Martyr and Plastic, which have been translated into over thirty languages and performed both in Germany and abroad. Since 2009 Mayenburg directs regularly at the Schaubühne in Berlin, as well as in other cities in Germany and across the world. His work as a translator also includes contemporary plays by Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp and Richard Dresser.

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