Edith Clever

Acting

Edith Clever

Born

1940-12-13 (85)

Place of birth

Wuppertal, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 8 titles

Parsifal poster
6.7

A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy. The action is centered on Wagner’s death mask. Kundry is the main character – one might read the film as the story of her redemption rather than that of Amfortas.

Parsifal

1982

Fräulein Else poster
8.0

TV adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s eponymous book with Edith Clever as the only film actress.

Fräulein Else

1987

The Night poster
8.3

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg and many different authors, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Plato, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Mörike, Richard Wagner, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, and Chief Seattle.

The Night

1985

No artwork available
7.0

Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß.

Big and Little

1980

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8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Drei Schwestern

1986

Edith Clever liest Joyce poster
8.0

In her Berlin apartment, where the S-Bahn and long-distance trains pass by, the actress Edith Clever reads Molly Bloom’s monologue from James Joyce’s “Ulysses”.

Edith Clever liest Joyce

1987

No artwork available
8.0

Edith Clever recites the complete text of The Marquise of O. by Heinrich von Kleist.

The Marquise of O.

1989

Penthesilea poster
NR

In Heinrich von Kleist's "Penthesilea", war, the death of love and erotic cannibalism merge into a battle of the sexes. The drama, which was published in 1808, was not premiered until 70 years later. It is considered almost unplayable. Edith Clever and Hans Jürgen Syberberg have remembered that Kleist's "Penthesilea" was already read as a monologue in the time of its author and supplemented by pantomime on stage. In November 1987, they continued this tradition at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris: Edith Clever performed the play without lines and role changes, as a single long poem.

Penthesilea

1989

1970s · 8 titles

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