Making Peace or Piecemeal? Arnold Wesker's Screenplay and Wolfgang Storch's TV Adaptation of Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night

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A. Stähler
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ABSTRACT:From 1983 to 1985 the British Jewish playwright Arnold Wesker worked on a film script for a German-Israeli TV adaptation of Arthur Koestler's propagandistic novel Thieves in the Night (1946), which chronicles a decisive phase in the triangular conflict among Arabs, Jews, and the British during the British Mandate for Palestine. Ultimately, Wesker's script was rejected, but in 1986 the dramatist published an excerpt in the Jewish Chronicle. Drawing on Wesker's original drafts and his correspondence relating to the project, this article contextualizes the publication of the so-called "Peace Making Ceremony" with the playwright's approach to his adaptation of the novel as a whole. It is argued that Wesker's main objectives were to preserve the integrity of the novel and to produce a "script of substance" that was to offer a historical argument rather than the "cowboys and Indian version" expected of him.
和平还是零敲碎打?阿诺德·威斯克的剧本和沃尔夫冈·斯托奇的电视改编阿瑟·库斯勒的《夜贼》
摘要:1983年至1985年,英国犹太剧作家阿诺德·威斯克将亚瑟·库斯勒的宣传小说《夜贼》(1946)改编为德以电视剧剧本,该片讲述了英国托管巴勒斯坦期间阿拉伯人、犹太人和英国人之间三角冲突的一个决定性阶段。最终,韦斯克的剧本被拒绝了,但在1986年,这位剧作家在《犹太纪事报》上发表了一篇节选。根据威斯克的原始草稿和他与该项目有关的通信,本文将所谓的“和平仪式”的出版与剧作家对小说的改编方法作为一个整体进行了背景分析。有人认为,威斯克的主要目标是保持小说的完整性,并写出一个“实质性的剧本”,以提供一个历史论点,而不是人们期望他写出的“牛仔和印第安人的版本”。
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期刊介绍: Jewish Film & New Media provides an outlet for research into any aspect of Jewish film, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural heritage across the globe. The journal is distinctive in bringing together a range of cinemas, televisions, films, programs, and other digital material in one volume and in its positioning of the discussions within a range of contexts—the cultural, historical, textual, and many others.
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