Talk:Claus Peymann

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by AirshipJungleman29 talk 21:16, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

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Peymann in 2011

• ... that Claus Peymann (pictured), who directed the premiere of Handke's Offending the Audience at the TAT in 1966, brought new plays by Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek to the Vienna Burgtheater? Source: several
  • Reviewed: Mies Building for the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
  • Comment: or from student revolt beginnings to a position right below God, as the sources say - the TAT is a new article, and I may expand and source it sufficiently to make a double nom.

Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 2149 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:16, 22 July 2025 (UTC).

• Proposing possible new hooks:

ALT1 ... that Claus Peymann (pictured) staged over 250 productions, including 51 world premieres, during his tenure as the head of Vienna's Burgtheater?

ALT2 ... that when Claus Peymann (pictured) was manager of the Berliner Ensemble, its productions were often full despite mostly negative reviews?

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:55, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the offers, but don't you think that Offending the Audience is more interesting than just numbers? Handke is known worldwide, per prize and scandal. - Perhaps combine? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

In response to the strike of the original (but weaker and sadly without a woman, which would tell something interesting about him, and without the interesting author known for scandals):

ALT0a ... that Claus Peymann (pictured), who directed Offending the Audience at the TAT in 1966, premiered as the head of Vienna's Burgtheater more plays by Peter Handke?

I'd prefer theatre to figures and to reactions, both not telling us about him and his interests. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:58, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Can you propose a hook that complies with WP:DYKINT? If you cannot, or if you cannot agree to such a hook, the nomination could be marked for closure. You can also withdraw the nomination if you are not open to a DYKINT-compliant hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:42, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:36, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

I wonder if we have a reviewer who is open to the options Narutolovehinata5 struck? This is not Churchill, whom everybody knows, so something unspecific and quirky might work. This is a person who needs to be introduced, and pure figures don't show his interests, not that I knew how to sell his theatre. He was instrumental in promoting the works of a Nobel Prize winner, over decades before he won that prize, and that singles him out. If that is not interesting for DYK, something is the wrong with the definition of interesting it uses. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:45, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Gerda, in case another reviewer rejects the Offending the Audience angle and/or anything to do with TAT and Handke, would you agree to ALT1/ALT2, or would you rather withdraw the nomination? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:09, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

You could do me favour and from time to time leave one of my nominations alone. In 2013, I invented a principle of two comments per discussion. Any discussions would be much more concise if it was followed voluntarily. I like a hook today, ... that Nezuko Kamado from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has been compared to the Yuki-onna, a character from Japanese folklore? It offers insight into Japanese culture. Of course I don't know yet a thing about where the links go, but feel invited to learn something new. Which I believe should be the prime objective of DYK, not collecting hits. - Today is the centenary of birth of Mikis Theodorakis, and my next step will be to write about one of his compositions. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:00, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - n

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed:
• Used in article:
• Clear at 100px: - n

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Image is too unclear for the main page. ALT0 is a total no-go, far too much waffle; ALT0a is better. Suggest instead that this nomination be combined with Theater am Turm, as was tentatively proposed above. We could use the ALT2 from there with a gentle trim? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:23, 3 August 2025 (UTC) ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:23, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

Closing nomination as joint hook is approved at Template:Did you know nominations/Theater am Turm. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:15, 3 August 2025 (UTC)