Description Over the course of three Days in 1970, June 5, 6, and7, simply sitting on a white bench in a Hamburg park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful monologue for Three Days (Drei Tage), filmmaker Ferry Radax s commanding film portrait of the great Austrian writer.
He lives in Vienna, Austria.".
Georg Vogt is a lecturer at the Institute for Theater, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Vienna.
He lives in Hollenburg, Lower Austria.
Ferry Radax is an Austrian filmmaker known especially for short experimental films, documentaries, and portrayals of poets and artists, including Thomas Bernhard, Konrad Bayer, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
His works include Frost, The Loser, Concrete, The Lime Works, and his memoir, Gathering Evidence.
He won many of the topmost prestigious literary prizes of Europe, including the Austrian State Prize, and is regarded as Austria\'s greatest post World War II writer.
His widely translated works include poetry, drama, novels, and an extensive memoir.
This publication of Bernhard s monologue and stills from Radax s artful film allows this unique portrait of Bernhard to be savored in bookform."About the Author Thomas Bernhard (19311989) is internationally acclaimed as a writer in the pantheon of world literature classics.
Bernhard had not yet written his autobiographical work Gathering Evidence, published originally in five separate volumes between 1975 and 1982, and his childhood remembrances were a revelation.
Radax interwove the monologue with a variety of metaphorically resonant visual techniquesblacking out the screen to total darkness, suggestive of the closing of the observing eye; cuts to scenes of cameramen, lighting and recording equipment; extreme camera distance and extreme closeup.
Description Over the course of three Days in 1970, June 5, 6, and7, simply sitting on a white bench in a Hamburg park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful monologue for Three Days (Drei Tage), filmmaker Ferry Radax s commanding film portrait of the great Austrian writer
