The Segal Middle presents an excerpt from The Youngsters of the Useless, which has been just lately translated into English by Gitta Honegger and printed by Yale College Press. The excerpt shall be carried out by Helga Davis and directed by Tea Alagić, adopted by a panel with Gitta Honegger, Tea Alagić, Pavol Liska, and Kelly Copper, moderated by Frank Hentschker.
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Synopsis:
The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria’s scenic panorama amongst historic church buildings and castles. It’s a trip idyll that pulls vacationers from throughout Europe. It’s also a mass burial website.
Amid the snow-topped peaks and panoramic vistas, ghosts hang-out the forest: Edgar Gstranz, a younger skier who died in a automotive crash; Gudrun Bichler, a philosophy pupil who dedicated suicide in her bathtub; and Karin Frenzel, a widow who (maybe) died in a bus accident. Because the three slip out and in of the lodge, partaking unsuspecting vacationers and looking for a method to return to life, the soil begins to crack beneath their ft because the lifeless of the Holocaust awaken: zombies decided to actual their revenge.
Scrupulously rendered for the primary time in English by Gitta Honegger, The Youngsters of the Useless takes readers on a mind-bending experience via time, house, and reminiscence. Concocted from experimental theater, splatter movie, Gothic literature, philosophy, faith, and extra, Jelinek’s phantasmagorical masterwork is a fierce confrontation with our fraught legacies within the title of the harmless lifeless.
Biographies:
Elfriede Jelinek (b. 1946), an Austrian poet, playwright, novelist, and activist, obtained the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her quite a few works embrace the novel The Piano Trainer. She lives in Vienna.
Gitta Honegger is the approved translator of Elfriede Jelinek. Apart from her novel The Youngsters of the Useless she additionally translated her “texts for talking;“ amongst them On the Royal Street: The Burgher King; Shadow. Eurydice Says; Rechnitz; Fees (The Supplicants); Fury and her most up-to-date works, the trilogy Solar/Air/Ashes and the biographical textual content Full Disclosure. She additionally translated the performs by fellow-Nobel laureates Peter Handke and Elias Canetti, in addition to of Thomas Bernhard and is the writer of the biography Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian.
Tea Alagić is an internationally acclaimed, multilingual director. Primarily based in NYC, her credit embrace off-Broadway, regional and worldwide productions of each conventional theater and devised work. She holds a BFA in performing from Charles College in Prague, Czech Republic, and an MFA in directing from the Yale College of Drama, the place she obtained the Julian Milton Kaufman Prize in Directing. She serves as professor of directing and collaboration at MFA, The New College for Drama since (2012,) from 2016 she is serving as Head of Directing Division at MFA.
Helga Davis is a vocalist and efficiency artist with ft planted on probably the most prestigious worldwide levels, and with agency roots within the realities and issues of her area people. Her work attracts out insights that illuminate how creative leaps for a person can supply connection amongst audiences.
