This volume contains the four latest plays by Thomas Bernhard. "The Theater Maker": The setting is the dance hall of the "Schwarzen Hirschen" in Utzbach. Here, the state actor Bruscon wants to perform his world theater titled "The Wheel of History," but this does not come to pass, even though the fire chief had agreed that at the end of the performance all lights, including the emergency light, would be turned off. "Ritter, Dene, Voss": "While working, my thoughts were mainly focused on my friend Paul and his uncle Ludwig" - so the author notes about this play. Dene, like her younger sister an actress, repeatedly brings her brother, a philosopher, from the Steinhof institution to the villa inherited from their parents in order to heal him. The fact that this attempt does not end in catastrophe for Dene is due to...