"Her Not All Her" is a play about, from, and to the great Swiss writer Robert Walser, by the great Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It highlights what Jelinek calls 'the fundamental fragmentation' of Walser's voice, revealing Walser as 'one of those people who, when they said[...]
The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. Jelinek's masterpiece, The Piano Teac[...]
The summer issue of Theater examines the plays of the 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek. The Nobel Prize brought long-overdue international recognition to one of Europe's most original and controversial playwright-novelists. Born in Austria in 1946, Jelinek has recently been an outspoken dissenti[...]
For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contemporary literature was finally recognized in 2004 with [...]
No other figure embodies revolutionary politics, radical chic, and the promises and failures of the New Left quite like Ulrike Meinhof (1934-76). In the 1960s, she was known in Europe as a journalist and public intellectual, leading an exciting life in Hamburg's high society with her publisher husba[...]
This volume is meant to introduce Elfriede Jelinek's diverse body of writing to the English-speaking public. Moreover, this collection of essays is not only of interest to scholars but also to teachers and students of literature alike. Fourteen scholars provide apprehensive comments on Jelinek's var[...]
Kurt Janisch is an ambitious, but frustrated country policeman. Things are not going right in his life. But a country policeman gets talking to a lot of people in the line of duty - particularly lonely, middle-aged women. Matters go from bad to worse. Someone sees too much, knows too much. Soon ther[...]
Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. But by night she trawls the porn shows of Vienna while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and ladies' man, Walter Klemmer. With Walter as her st[...]
The first English translation of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's astonishing, provocative play, a post-dramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body. It explores contemporary society's obsession with fitness and body culture, bringing into sharp focus our need[...]
In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into wh[...]
The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a woman's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realize that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Brigitte subordin[...]
In diesem Roman der faszinierenden österreichischen Erzählerin Elfriede Jelinek "geht es zu wie in der Agenten-, Krimi- und Sexfilmproduktion eines ganzen Jahres zusammengenommen. Die scharfen Sachen sind besonders heià gesotten, und die Trips, Verfolgungsjagden und Abschlachtungen besonder[...]
Auch in diesem Roman der österreichischen Autorin fasziniert das buchstäblich unheimliche Talent, Alltagsgeschichten auf den Grund zu gehen. Welche Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten hat eine Arbeiterin ? Sie kann einen Mann heiraten, der ihr den gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg garantiert. Doch wie ander[...]
"Ich bemühe mich nicht um abgerundete Menschen mit Fehlern und Schwächen, sondern um Polemik, starke Kontraste; eine Art Holzschnitttechnik. Ich schlage sozusagen mit der Axt drein, damit kein Gras mehr wächst, wo meine Figuren hingetreten sind." (Elfriede Jelinek über ihre Bühnenwerke)[...]
Einer der meistdiskutierten deutschsprachigen Romane der letzten Zeit: Der Klavierlehrerin Erika Kohut, von ihrer Mutter zur Pianistin gedrillt, ist es nicht möglich, aus ihrer Isolation heraus eine sexuelle Identität zu finden. Unfähig, sich auf das Leben einzulassen, wird sie zur Voyeurin[...]
Siegfried Mattl (Wien): Ästhetik als Opposition. Elfriede Jelinek im Kontext der österreichischen Zeitgeschichte; Alexandra Pontzen (Li?ge):Pietätlose Rezeption. Bemerkungen zu Jelineks Umgang mit der Tradition; Sabine Müller (Wien): Elfriede Jelinek. Masse, Macht und Sexualität im historischen[...]
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