Das Schweigen


Das Schweigen is a play by the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It premiered in 2000 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg, Germany. It was published that year in a combined volume with two other Jelinek plays, Das Lebewohl and Der Tod und das Mädchen II. All three plays referenced German classical music composers. In Das Schweigen, a woman attempts to write about the composer Robert Schumann.