With his first work ›Viehjud Levi‹, Thomas Strittmatter was discovered for the world of theatre in 1983. It was presented at the Mühlheim Theatre Festival, at the Berlin Theatre Meeting and the Vienna Festival. The plays by Thomas Strittmatter continue the tradition of Horvath, of Fleisser – they are folk plays in the best sense of the word, clearly disassociating themselves from West End plays, from the »folksy« theatre.