Fitzgerald Kusz, dramatist and poet, was born in Nuremberg in 1944, where he lives today with his wife and three children. He studied English and German literature and is a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste, PEN and VS. (2008)

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Akzente, Tintenfisch, Jahrbuch der Lyrik

literature prizes

• Including the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Stipendium der Freien Volksbühne, Berlin 1977
• Kulturpreis der Stadt Nürnberg, 1988.
• Friedrich Baur-Preis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste, 1998

Books

• 11 poetry collections in Franconian dialect, most recently Wouhii. Ein Lesebuch, Cadolzburg 2002.
• muggn, gedichte, ars-vivendi, Cadolzburg 2007.

Plays (selection)

20 plays, including:

• Schweig, Bub!, Nuremberg 1976.
• Burning Love, Constance 1984;
• Letzter Wille, Munich 1996;
• Witwendramen, Singen 2005.
• Schlammschlacht, Hamburg 2006.

Screenplays: film/TV (selection)

• Himmelsheim, Feature film, 1989. Directed by Manfred Stelzer.
• Gudrun, Feature film, 1992. Directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer.
• Florian III, TV series, directed by Bernd Fischerauer, BR 1994.

Radio plays (selection)

• Die Bestellung, 1979; Die Vögel, radio play for children, 1980; Burning Love, 1985:
• Hermann, 1989; Die Nibelungen. 1992.

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