Program for "The Black Rider" at Schaubühne Berlin (2012)

Berlin, Germany: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (theater program), 2012. 5.875" x 3.75" x 0.125", 64 pages, softcover.

The program for the production of The Black Rider by William S. Burroughs, Tom Waits, and Robert Wilson, as performed at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Berlin, Germany) on 24 November 2012. Photographs by Thomas Aurin. Translations into German by Wolfgang Wiens.

Aside from being an opera that Burroughs helped create, the program contains additional Burroughs-related material.

Burroughs is mentioned in Steven Watson's "Beats — die geschlagene Generation," pp. 9–12, as excerpted and translated by Bernhard Schmid from Watson's book The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960.

An excerpt from William S. Burroughs' Junkie, as translated into German by Katharina Behrens, is on pages 13–20.

Steven Watson's "Joan Burroughs' Tod" is at pages 21–30, and includes a reproduction from the New York Daily News, 8 September 1951, of the news of Joan Vollmer's shooting death.

An excerpt from William Burroughs Jr.'s Kentucky Ham is presented in English at pages 31–34.

Burroughs is additionally mentioned in Brigitte Marschall's "Das Kulturphänomen Droge," pp. 35–44.

Contents: 

• Otto von Graben zum Stein: "Der Freikugelguß des Schreibers" (excerpt, from 1750)
• Steven Watson: "Beats — die geschlagene Generation"
• William S. Burroughs: "Junkie"
• Steven Watson: "Joan Burroughs' Tod"
• William Burroughs Jr.: "Kentucky Ham"
• Brigitte Marschall: "Das Kulturphänomen Droge"
• Thomas Aurin: images from the performance
• Notes
• Performance credits