Das Werk

Das Werk (The Works, sometimes translated as The Plant) is a play by the Nobel Prize winning Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek.

It premiered at the Akademietheater in Vienna on 11 April 2003, under the direction of Nicolas Stemann.

[1] Based on historical events, the play depicts the suffering of workers building a large power plant in the town of Kaprun.

[2] The Nazi government used slave labor for the project, then after the end of World War II, construction was completed using mostly foreign workers.

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