Barry Humphries Bücher

Dame Edna Everage - Hausfrau, Megastar, investigative Journalistin, Sozialanthropologin, Kinderbuchillustratorin, Chanteuse, Swami, Monstre sacre, Universalgelehrte, Beraterin der britischen Königsfamilie, Trauerberaterin, Spin-Doktorin und begabte Frau in der heutigen Welt. Die Samen des Ruhms wurden in Melbourne, Australien, gesät, als ihre Karriere als Darstellerin zunächst nur eine Kultanhängerschaft hatte. In den 1960er Jahren trat sie in einer Reihe von Soloshows und gelegentlichen Bühnen- und TV-Auftritten in England mit Barry Humphries auf. Sie verbringt ihre Zeit mit Besuchen bei Weltführern und dem Jetset zwischen ihren Wohnsitzen in Malibu, London, Sydney und der Schweiz. Ihre Hobbys sind Nachmittags-Tee mit Stephen Hawking und mitfühlende Fotografie.

Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished his biographers with half-truths and fiction, but now he has written his own account of his life. He tells of his schooldays, his Australian adolescence, his indiscretions, his renunciations and his appetites.

Barry Humphries's first novel. Mrs Petty is a famous housewife with a successful TV show. She is also Derek Pettyfer - fiftyish, cultured, set in his ways. His arrival at any party, however sophisticated, always provokes a discreet little frisson amongst the guests. But Derek is also lonely.

Described by Barry Humphries as a cubist self-portrait, this autobiography revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this memoir, his various fascinations are explored: painting, travel, marriage and divorce, and his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and many others.

Book by BARRY HUMPHRIES

An anthology of the best comic writing in Punch from 1841 to 1991.

Book by Betjeman, John

Teksten van conférences van hedendaagse Nederlandse cabaretiers.