Die Physiker Paperback – January 1, 2001

We bought this book, and its English translation - "The Physicists", to help us in our attempts to learn German.It was a good choice: the language is relatively straightforward, and the translation follows the original text closely enough to be really helpful.The play itself is very entertaining in its own right, which is a major incentive when trying to decipher one of those convoluted German sentences.

Very good book but wait for too long.

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Great! Love this book

Well-written interpretation by Friedel Schardt. The language is fairly plain and simple German, but every once in a while you'll find an anachronistic word - simply look it up with the Kindle dictionary.I don't, however, agree with Mr. Schardt's final conclusion: that King Salomon's knowledge alone destroyed his kingdom. It's an important and not solely theatrical aspect that Salomon also turned away from God before his lands finally turned into a barren, burned landscape.Explanation: Möbius doesn't only pursue knowledge with scientific methods. He pursues science recklessly without any regards for humankind and without compassion for others, not even his family. His motifs are purely and recklessly driven by his personal gains (knowledge). By murdering his nurse, he also breaks one of God's commandments (6. "You shall not murder") and so, demonstrably, turns away from God. Finally, his wealth (knowledge) gets stolen as Dr. von Zahnd makes a copy of his notes. The result is Möbius agreeing to live out the rest of his life as a prisoner, unable to prevent the outside world from potentially turning into a nuclear desert by the very "wealth of knowledge" he acquired without consideration.

Das Buch hat nur knapp 100 Seiten und ist super leicht und angenehmen zu lesen. Es handelt sich um eine Komödie, die sich mit der Frage nach der Wissenschaft und dem Wahnsinn beschäftigt. Ich selber werde dieses Werk mit meiner 9 lesen und im Deutschunterricht behandeln. Kann aber gut sein, dass einige Witze nicht verstanden werden, mal schauen :) Aber natürlich auch unabhängig vom Schulalltag lohnenswert 😊

Es una obra magnífica , un clásico que sigue siendo actual !

Bien

During my school years, we got a lot of German literature in German class. This theatre piece was the only title in the list that I actually enjoyed. The story's main character is a scientist who has willingly entered a sanatorium, because he says that King Solomon talks to him. The sanatorium is directed by a woman psychologist, and there are two other inmates, who believe themselves to be historically famous physicists, and who have been rendered dangerous after killing each of them a nurse. Soon it's revealed that they are not unstable individuals, but spions from two different factions: they know that the main character has made an amazing and terribly discovery, one that could confer triumph to whichever faction that had access to it, and that the real reason why the main character decided to seclude himself, pretending to be crazy, was to hide this discovery.The whole theatre piece is about the moral responsability of researchers on the application of their discoveries, and the futility of trying to act righteously.

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