Sartre summarizes the plot in the program notes of the play: "A family of big German industrialists, the von Gerlachs, live near Hamburg in an ugly old mansion in the middle of a park. The play by the Ljubljana City Theatre in 1960 The action takes place in Altona, a borough of the German city-state of Hamburg. The title recalls his formulation "Man is condemned to be free." It is the only one of Sartre's fictional works which deals directly with Nazism, and also serves as a critique of the then-ongoing Algerian War. It was one of the last plays Sartre wrote, followed only by his adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. It was first produced in 1959 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. The Condemned of Altona (French: Les Séquestrés d'Altona) is a play written by Jean-Paul Sartre, known in Great Britain as Loser Wins. ![]() ![]() Home of the von Gerlachs, in the Altona borough of Hamburg, Germany. Cover of the English edition, depicting the black window of Franz's crabs.įrench, Translated from the French by Sylvia and George Leeson
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