Thalia

Thomas Holtzmann

Thomas Holtzmann wurde 1927 in München geboren. 1961 gelang ihm der Durchbruch als Prinz Friedrich von Homburg am Berliner Schillertheater. Es folgten Engagements an den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Bühnen, seit 1977 gehört er fest dem Ensemble des Münchner Staatsschauspiels an.

Thomas Bernhard

Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in rightwing, Catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen, he contracted pneumonia. Placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, he observed with unflinching acuity protracted suffering and death. From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence of his life and knowledge - and where this account of his life ends, his art begins.