Until 1966, when his autobiography Als wär's ein Stück von mir: Horen der Freundschaft (translated as A Part of Myself, 1970) appeared, Carl Zuckmayer was known mainly as the author of high...
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Along with Bertolt Brecht and Gerhart Hauptmann, Carl Zuckmayer was one of the most popular and significant German dramatists of the twentieth century. His play Der fröhliche Weinberg (The Happy ...
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Critical Essay by Diether H. Haenicke
[Carl Zuckmayer] ironically was dismissed from his post as dramatic producer of the theater at Kiel because of his "complete incompetence as an artist.&#x...
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Critical Essay by Siegfried Mews and Raymond English
Both Brecht's direct influence and the general vogue of anarchy and lawlessness—which were associated with America—were the p...
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Critical Essay by Arnold Bauer
Zuckmayer belongs among the relatively few humorists Germany has produced. He has a depth of warmly reflective perception that never fails to hit the target. His genera...
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Critical Essay by Siegfried Mews
Zuckmayer's enormous success of approximately a decade ago [was] his autobiography Als wär's ein Stück von mir. The autobiography will, wi...
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Carl Zuckmayer
Critical Essay by Diether H. Haenicke
