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Tennessee Williams, eigentlich Thomas Lanier Williams III, war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Den Spitznamen „Tennessee“ erhielt er von Collegefreunden an der University of Missouri, weil er den im Bundesstaat Tennessee verbreiteten Akzent sprach. Seine Großeltern, die er oft und gern besuchte, lebten dort, was für seinen Akzent prägend war. 1944 führte das in Hollywood zunächst abgelehnte Script für Die Glasmenagerie in Chicago zu Williams’ erstem Bühnenerfolg. Das Stück Die tätowierte Rose erhielt den Tony Award als bestes Schauspiel. Es wurde 1950 ebenfalls in Chicago uraufgeführt. Kritiker definieren den Stil seiner Schauspiele als „Southern Gothic“ . 1948 und 1955 wurde Williams für seine Stücke Endstation Sehnsucht und Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach mit dem Pulitzerpreis ausgezeichnet. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. März 1911 – 25. Februar 1983
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„Ich sage dir, dieses Europa ist nichts anderes als eine einzige große Auktion. Das ist alles, was man darüber sagen kann, nichts als ein großer Inventurausverkauf.“

Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach, 2. Akt
Original englisch: "That Europe is nothin' on earth but a great big auction, that's all it is, that bunch of old worn-out places, it's just a big fire-sale." - Big Daddy in: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Act 2

„Man kann in einem großen Land etwas anpflanzen, das wichtiger ist als Baumwolle - Toleranz!“

Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach, 2. Akt
Original englisch: "One thing you can grow on a big place more important than cotton! - is tolerance! - Big Daddy in: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Act 2

„Aus dem hoffnungslos Vergänglichen das Ewige zu ergreifen ist der große Zaubertrick der menschlichen Existenz.“

Original englisch: "Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence." - The Timeless World of Play http://books.google.com/books?id=Rp3TJUCT9soC&q=%22Snatching+the+eternal+out+of+the+desperately+fleeting+is+the+great+magic+trick+of+human+existence%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage, an introductory essay to The Rose Tattoo (1951)

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“I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Tom, Scene Six
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Kontext: Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!

“Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”

Tennessee Williams Camino Real

Camino Real (1953)
Kontext: You said, "They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people." — "What," I asked you, "is harmless about a dreamer, and what," I asked you, "is harmless about the love of the people? — Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."

“I think that moral earnestness is a good thing for any times, but particularly for these times.”

Program notes for a Pasadena Playhouse production of Stairs to the Roof (1947)
Kontext: When I look back at Stairs to the Roof... I see its faults very plainly, as plainly as you may see them, but still I do not feel apologetic about this play. Unskilled and awkward as I was at this initial period of my playwriting, I certainly had a moral earnestness which I cannot boast of today, and I think that moral earnestness is a good thing for any times, but particularly for these times. I wish I still had the idealistic passion of Benjamin Murphy! You may smile as I do at the sometimes sophomoric aspect of his excitement, but I hope you will respect, as I do, the purity of his feeling and the honest concern which he had in his heart for the basic problem of mankind, which is to dignify our lives with a certain freedom.

“Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Amanda, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Kontext: Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it — develop charm — and vivacity — and — charm!

“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.

--Blanche Dubois”

Quelle: Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire

“I don't want realism. I want magic!”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Quelle: A Streetcar Named Desire

“The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Variante: Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.
Quelle: The Glass Menagerie

“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Quelle: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”

Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach

Quelle: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”

Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach

Quelle: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Quelle: A Streetcar Named Desire

“I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Quelle: A Streetcar Named Desire

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