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I Am My Own Wife: Studies for a Play about the Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf

I Am My Own Wife: Studies for a Play about the Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf

Wright, Doug

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Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0571211747
ISBN13: 9780571211746
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Feb 9 2004
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards, Pulitzer Prize, Stonewall Book Award

I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi.

In an attempt to discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wright has written at once a vivid portrait of Germany in the second half of the twentieth century, a morally complex tale about what it can take to be a survivor, and an intriguing meditation on everything from the obsession with collecting to the passage of time (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times).

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