The Firebugs (vuoden 1963 painos)

I think this is a play called The Fire Raisers...which I saw performed a couple of years ago. The production was fairly amateurish but the play survived, which I guess reflects its strength.Really, I can't understand why it is that some authors go out of fashion when they seem so obviously to stand whatever test of time should prevent their becoming victims of that.

This is a brilliant play, and has great messages for us right now, but your chances of seeing it are about nil. And apparently if you want to read it, you have to be able to speak German. What a pity.

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A superb play. ( )

A great satire on the potential detriment of being politically correct long before there was such a thing as being politically correct. A very funny play. Biederman remains clueless to the end, obviously believing that his social status would somehow deliver him from evil. ( )

Play about a hapless man and his family who become involved with a group of arsonists, understood as an allegory for German involvement with Nazis. The paert I still recall is towards then end when B. is desparate to remain friendly with the arsonists and pledges "bruderschaft" with them so they can call each other "du" --this comes acorss more powerfully in the German than in English versions ( )

This is probably my favorite German play. I love how painfully obvious it is. Though the Nachspiel doesn't seem to fit, I love when they are talling up which commandments they had kept. It seems that they fall short in some obvious ways. Its fantastic. ( )