Chekhov's great dramas, which are comparable in their richness to the ancient tragedies and Shakespeare's plays, are being brought into German for the first time by a theatre author in Thomas Brasch: "...To make stories of a foreign writer, of a past time, of a distant region, into my own stories, to appropriate them through writing, to allow an encounter between two theatre writers to take place across spatial and temporal distance ... not to produce translations, but to find my own transport routes, to make the roots of today recognisable in yesterday ..." Thomas Brasch.