Frank Wedekind Books

Exploring the tumultuous journey of adolescence, this 1912 play delves into the sexual awakening of teenagers amidst a repressive society. It follows a group of classmates grappling with desire and societal norms, highlighting themes of censorship and the psychological impact of sexual repression. Controversial at its release, the work faced bans in various countries due to its candid depiction of youth sexuality. Its enduring relevance makes it a thought-provoking piece that continues to resonate today.

The book has significant historical importance, prompting Alpha Editions to preserve it for future generations through modern republishing. It has been carefully reformatted, re-typed, and redesigned to ensure clarity and readability, avoiding the use of scanned copies. This effort highlights the commitment to maintaining the work's legacy in an accessible format.

Two of Wedekind's most seminal plays, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box both focus on the actions of the young heroine Lulu.

A moralist who wore the mask of an immoralist, Wedekind was the terror of the German bourgeoisie.

Jonathan Franzen offers a compelling translation of Frank Wedekind's influential modern play, Spring Awakening, known for its exploration of adolescence, sexuality, and the struggles against societal constraints. The play delves into the tumultuous journey of young characters grappling with their desires and the oppressive norms of their environment. Franzen's sharp insights and contemporary sensibility breathe new life into Wedekind's classic, making it accessible for a modern audience while retaining its powerful themes.

Frank Wedekind's first major play and a seminal work in the modern history of theatre, in a new version by Anya Reiss.

In these intimate journals, Frank Wedekind shows himself to have been in life what he is in his plays, a subversive artist and merciless critic of bourgeois morality. He lived and worked in Wilhelmine, Germany in the 1890's, that period of economic unstability, fin de siecle decadence and artistic ferment; among the contemporaries who pass through these pages are playwright Gerhard Hauptmann and revolutionary Alexander Herzen. Wedekind shot to fame in 1895 with the first of the Lulu plays, and compounded his renown with "Spring Awakening". His plays have been claimed as typical of the Jugendstil art movement, which included Parisian art nouveau and related activity in Vienna and Glasgow, and their visionary eroticism has clear links with these diaries. This ediction includes the thirty pages of Wedekins's Paris diaries which were omitted from the German version, and numerous corrections and additions as a result of returning to the handwritten original.

Lulu is the personification of the spirit of unbridled nature. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each one of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute in late- Victorian London where she encounters Jack the Ripper. schovat popis

`Mine-Haha is a fairy tale that morphs into something far more grotesque-a psycho-sexual Expressionist fable. It's so perversely erotic and freaky and anti-society, and that's probably why it's never been translated into English until now. This new version by Philip Ward is long overdue and very welcome.' Marianne Faithfull --Book Jacket.