Marlene van niekerk biography of alberta

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Marlene van Niekerk was born on 10 November 1954, on the farm Tygerhoek near Caledon.

Marlene van niekerk biography of alberta

She attended school in Riviersonderend and Stellenbosch, where she matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof.
She studied Languages and Philosophy at Stellenbosch University and obtained a MA with the thesis: Die aard en belang van die literêre vormgewing in 'Also sprach Zarathustra' in 1978.
At university she wrote three plays for the lay theatre.

In 1979 she moved to Germany to join theatres in Stuttgart and Mainz as apprentice for directing. From 1980 - 1985 she continued her studies of philosophy in Holland and obtained a Drs with a thesis on the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur: "Taal en mythe: een structuralistische en een hermeneutische benadering."
Back in South Africa she lectured in Phil