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"[Pandora's Box is] expressionism put to use with unerring skill as a commentary on the social
hypocrisy of the time." — Derek Malcolm, reviewer in the U.K. Guardian, in July 1999

           Beautiful Lulu is the mistress of a newspaper publisher, Schön, who decides to marry a countess; Lulu is offered a starring role in Schön's son's musical play, but when she sees her rival the countess in attendance, she refuses to perform; she seduces Schön in a storeroom, and they are caught by the countess.
           Schön resigns himself to marrying Lulu, but on their wedding day finds her cavorting with two men; he gets his gun and insists that she kill herself; in the struggle the gun fires and Schön is dead. On trial for murder, Lulu is sentenced to five years for manslaughter, but two men friends set her free and they flee the country.
           They hide out on a gambling ship; Lulu is sold to the Egyptian owner of a brothel, one friend is caught cheating at cards, the other friend kills the Egyptian, and they again flee. Living in a drafty London garret, Lulu is forced into prostitution, and her first customer is Jack The Ripper . . .

History of The Films Days after

Stageplays & Author

Frank Wedekind [1864-1918] was born in Hanover, Germany. He specialized in shocking plays, as an artistic comment on the realities of German & European culture at the Turn of the Century. In the original 1894 manuscript, the 'Lulu' drama was in five acts and subtitled 'A Monster Tragedy'. Wedekind's "Erdgeist (Earth Spirit)" [1895] was banned in Germany during his lifetime; he published the second part as "Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box)" [1904]. Wedekind served nine months in prison (1898-99) for publishing a series of anti-government poems, then became a dramaturg in Munich until his death in 1918. He was a major influence on the Expressionist and satirical theatre of the Weimar Republic Era in Germany.

Co-written & directed by G.W. Pabst; co-written by Ladislaus Vajda, loosely based on two shocking plays by Frank Wedekind; starring Louise Brooks,
Fritz Kortner, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Francis Lederer, Gustav Diessl, Daisy D'Ora, Alice Roberts & Michael von Newlinsky

"Lulu" aka "No Orchids For Lulu" [Germany June 1962]

cover for English DVD of 1962 German film 'Lulu'

Adapted & directed by Rolf Thiele; starring Nadja Tiller, O.E. Hasse, Hildegard Knef, Mario Adorf, Charles Regnier, Rudolf Forster, Leon Askin, Sieghardt Rupp, Klaus Höring, Fritz von Friedl, Herbert Fux, Raoul Retzer, Rose Renée Roth
Video Dimensions b&w DVD [10/2012] for $14.95
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

1978 Lulu http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077880/
1978 Lulu (TV movie) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355707/
1979 Lulu (TV movie) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256163/
1980 Lulu http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081086/
Loulou (1980) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081076/
1985 Lulu (TV movie) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260149/
2002 Lulu (TV movie) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814202/
Loulou (2003) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081076/
Lulu (TV 2006) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466057/

"Lulu: Opera in 3 Acts" by Alban Berg
Unfinished when the composer Alban Berg [1885-1935] died; first performed by the Zurich Opera in an incomplete
form in 1937, later by the Santa Fe Opera in 1963; described as "Berg's most important twelve-tone work",
the opera was ultimately completed by composer Friedrich Cerha, based on Berg's nearly-completed manuscripts;
the full three-act version was first performed in 1979 in Paris, France under the musical direction of Pierre Boulez
opera entry at Wikipedia

conducted by James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera in 2001
http://www.amazon.com/James-Levine-Metropolitan-Opera-Exclusive/dp/B007HO3AP4/

Underground cartoonist John Linton Roberson is adapting "Lulu" as a series of graphic stories
official website • no entry at Wikipedia

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	"Lulu" performance on 'The Metropolitan Opera Presents' program [P.B.S./WNET-TV March 1977] full-length staging conducted by James Levine; sung by Julia Migenes, Franz Mazura, Kenneth Riegel, Evelyn Lear & Andrew Foldi The Metropolitan Opera color DVD [12/80] out of prodn/rare full credits at IMDb
	"Alban Berg: Lulu (Cambridge Opera Handbooks)" [1991] by Douglas Jarman Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [2/91] for $31.99 Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [2/91] out of print/used
	"Alban Berg's Lulu" [U.K. Channel 4 1996] 3-hour telefilm made of the 1996 performance of Alban Berg's "Lulu" opera at the Glyndebourne Festival at Lewes, East Sussex, U.K. Directed by Humphrey Burton; music conducted by Andrew Davis; sung by Christine Schäfer, Wolfgang Schöne, Kathryn Harries, Norman Bailey & David Kuebler Kultur Video color DVD [1/2004] for $26.99 full credits at IMDb
	"A View of Berg's Lulu: Through The Autograph Sources" [1997] by Patricia Hall Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [6/97] out of print/used

	the first chapter was published in the anthology "This Sickness, Volume 6" [Spring 2010] CreateSpace 9¾x7½ 48-page comic book [3/2010] for $9.03 the second chapter was published in the anthology "This Sickness, Volume 7" [Summer 2011] CreateSpace 9¾x7½ 48-page comic book [5/2011] for $9.03
	"LULU Book 1" [2013] by John Linton Roberson, Introduction by Martin Pasko CreateSpace 90-page 9¾x7½ pb [3/2013] for $12.44

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