Women in German Yearbook articles from January 1 2000

Women in German Yearbook archives from January 1 2000

PREFACE.
January 1, 2000... When we decided on an "Austrian" cluster for this year's Women in German Yearbook, Austrian voters had not yet gone to the polls in the October 1999 election. We therefore could not foresee the immediate political relevance of our topic, as...

Encountering the Other--Beyond Political Correctness: Interview with Barbara Frischmuth.(Interview)
January 1, 2000... Introduction The prestigious literary prize of the city of Graz, the Franz Nabl Prize, was awarded for the year 2000 to Barbara Frischmuth. Born in 1941, she is one of the most prominent Austrian women authors today; the prize honors her...

Illuminating Intersections: Ten Years of Feminist Criticism on Contemporary Austrian Women Writers.
January 1, 2000... This review focuses on ten years of feminist reception of selected works written by Austrian women writers from the 1970s through the 1990s, with the exception of Elfriede Jelinek. Taken as a whole, the seondary literature can be categorized...

The Collapse of Language and the Trace of History in Ingeborg Bachmann's "Simultan".
January 1, 2000... In Ingeborg Bachmann's story "Simultan" ("Word for Word"), history--specifically the history of fascism in Austria and Italy--and language have collapsed as structures and subsided into symbolic rubble, ruled by metonymy and slippage, exceeding...

"My Characters Live Only Insofar as They Speak": Interview with Elfriede Jelinek.(Interview)
January 1, 2000... Introduction While researching my dissertation on Elfriede Jelinek in Vienna during the 1998/99 academic year, I had the opportunity to talk to her about her work and politics. We first met in Darmstadt at the Buchner Prize ceremony in...

Malina: A Filmscript Based on the Novel by Ingeborg Bachmann, Scenes 116-123.
January 1, 2000... Introduction Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Malina was published in 1971, two years before her death. After her death in 1973, fragments of the Todesarten (Ways of Dying) novel cycle (to which Malina was intended as the "overture") were...

Three Media--One Story? Marie-Therese Kerschbaumer's "Gypsy" Narrative.
January 1, 2000... There are very few narratives about "Gypsies" that would not qualify as "stories of textual persecution" (Claudia Breger). The Austrian writer Marie-Therese Kerschbaumer, however, has demonstrated discursive resistance to the prejudice against...

Teacher and/or Mother: Personal and Political Transformations in Hilde Maria Kraus's Nine Months.
January 1, 2000... Published in 1931, Hilde Maria Kraus's Nine Months (Neun Monate) defies both social and literary norms in that the novel's protagonist, Olga, chooses to continue her teaching career after the birth of her child. Kraus's novel, however, draws on...

"Fraulein Doktor": Literary Images of the First Female University Students in Fin-de-Siecle Germany.
January 1, 2000... The admission of women to higher education in Germany caused considerable debate from 1865 to 1910 and beyond. By examining fictional representations of women students before their admission to university study became official policy, this...

Woman and Typewriter: Gender, Technology, and Work in Late Weimar Film.
January 1, 2000... Among the new technologies of the industrial age, the typewriter both provided women with access to the labor force and became identified as a gender-specific machine used almost exclusively by women. This essay examines the iconography of the...

"I, the seeress, was owned by the palace." The Dynamics of Feminine Collusion in Christa Wolf's Cassandra.
January 1, 2000... Hailed as a symbol of resistance and heroine, and in other instances decried for her lack of power, Christa Wolf's Cassandra remains a controversial figure. In choosing death over other alternatives, her action at once haunts and troubles...

Transgression and Identity in Kleist's Penthesilea and Wolf's Cassandra.
January 1, 2000... Feminist readers have increasingly been drawn to the work of Heinrich von Kleist, and in particular to his play Penthesilea. Authors such as Helene Cixous and Christa Wolf have not shied away from this notoriously "unperformable" drama, but...

Woman, Violence, Nation: Representations of Female Insurgency in Fiction and Public Discourse in the 1970s and 1980s.
January 1, 2000... Germany in the 1970s was subject to a wave of terrorist activities in which women such as Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin played a significant role. The mass media and public discourse in general struggled with women's participation in these...

Quo Vadis? Women at East Germany's Universities Ten Years After.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... In my contribution, I revisit the tumultuous events of Fall 1989 and their subsequent impact on universities in the former GDR. In particular, I am concerned with the problematic concept of Abwicklung, as the "integration" of the East German...

German Narratives of Women's Divine and Demonic Possession and Supernatural Vision 1555-1800: A Bibliography.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2000... Introduction Possession: the use of a human body by supernatural forces, divine or demonic, to display a message for the chastisement, edification, and inspiration of others. Since recorded history, possession has included a range of...