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The Coalition of Women in German, an allied organization of the MLA,
invites students, teachers, and all others interested in feminism and
German studies to submit relevant material to the newsletter. Subscrip-.
tion and membership information is on the last page of this issue.
Women in German Steering Committee:
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Jan Emerson, Reed College (1985-88)
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Charlotte Armster, Gettysburg College (1985-88)
Heidrun Suhr, U.Minnesota-Minneapolis (1986-89)
Vibs Petersen, U.Tulsa (1986-89)
Angelika Bammer, Emory Univ. (1987-90)
Tineke Ritmeester, U.Minnesota-Duluth (1987-90)
Treasurer:
Yearbook:
Jeanette Clausen, IU/PU-Ft. Wayne
Helen Cafferty, Bowdoin College and Jeanette Clausen, IU/PUFt. Wayne
The Women in German Newsletter is published in March, August, and
November of each year. Send newsletter items to:
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German Department/Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
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Editorial Staff:
Susan Cocalis
Susanne Kord, Karin Obermeier
Frida Ebbeson, Ann Frei, Sylvia Klotzer, Heidi KUss,
Laurie McLary, Shanta Rao, Terri Bakker Bascom,
Marilyn Webster, Nina Zimnik, Angelica Fenner
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Spring 1988
Number 45
EDITORIALS
Spring break has corne and gone, which is more than I can say
for this year's tenacious flu. I'm not sure of its country of
origin, but I have decided it might be better to compose the
editorial in~slightly fevered state than to continue waiting
for my head to clear. Besides, it might actually make for a
liberating experience: a sudden flu of the imagination? one
flu over the cuckoo's nest? native fluency in German? final
flurries of pre-publication activity? Going with the flu? The
possibilities are limitless, alas. I am only grateful that
the WIG collective here has grown so much and has become so
experienced in the production process that we organized and
typed the Newsletter all in one day, before the flu struck
the portion of the editorial staff that is over forty.
Usually, the WIG collective has had a mini-conference by this
time of the year, but we have decided to defer that pleasure
until the spring this year. Thus we are planning to host a
regional meeting sometime in Mayor early June of this year.
We have had so many people corning and going, that we tried
to find a time that would accommodate the greatest number of
the collective. Leslie Morris has recently returned from
Munich, but Karin Obermeier will be leaving for two years in
Siegen and Susanne Kord will soon be departing for Hanover,
NH. It is sometimes difficult for us to adjust to such major
"losses," but so many exciting and talented new members have
joined the staff this year, that I really cannot complain.
It is also amazing to me how the collective grows to absorb
the spaces left by members of the collective absent due to
imminent exams. We wish Shanta Rao and Frida Ebbeson luck
in the corning weeks. Next time they will help out for someone
else. That seems to be how it works here.
We have dedicated this ipsue's Wigtionary to those Philologists
and Linguists within our ranks who might have been feeling
neglected. In particular, we would like to dedicate the cartoons
in this issue to Colette van Kerckvoorde, who is receiving her
Ph.D. in Philology this spring. The idea carne from Jeanette
Clausen, who must therefore shoulder her share of the blame •
. Susan L. Cocalis
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WIG NEW),
1. Congratulations to two WIG members upon their marriage:
Jeannine Blackwell and Michael Jones.
2. Heidrun Suhr's visa problems have been clarified and she will still be
at the University of Minnesota next year. Heidrun also informs us that
the DAAD will be supporting the 1989 WIG conference with a grant of $3,000.
3. The NEH will be funding Nancy Luken's and Dorothy Rossenberg's anthology
of GDR women writers in translation, -The Daughters of Eve-.
Congratulations.
4. Susanne Kord will be teaching at Dartmouth College in the fall.
5. 'Karin Obermeier has received a two year fellowship to participate in a
doctoral/post-doctoral seminar at the Universitat Siegen.
COMMeNTARY
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(Submitted for publication in the next WIG newsletter)
An Open Letter to the WIG Steering committee
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12. December 1987
Dear Members of the WIG Steering Committee:
My reaction to your letter to Aysel ozakin was quite mixed,
and I'd like to share it with you and all the members of WIG in
order to raise a few issues that might be ignored otherwise.
First of all, I am in complete sympathy with the frustration
expressed in the letter. WIG members, and Heidrun Suhr in particular, worked very hard to organize a speaking tour for Aysel.
I was one of many participants in arranging her Northeast tour
and have nothing but admiration for Joey Horsley's efforts.
I
also worked to insure a smooth visit for Aysel--picked her up in
Wellesley, took her to lunch at my own expense, gave her my
bedroom for two nights, rushed out to downtown Boston with her
two hours before her talk at Boston University so that she could
locate a special adapter for her computer ... I mention these
details only to show that I put myself out on her behalf, and I
know that whatever L did could be multiplied at least ten times
over for the major organizers.
Ay~el called me from Montreal a few days before the WIG conference and told me that she wasn't going to attend. She wanted
to explain her side to someone and picked me.
I want to make it
clear, however, that I'm not writing this letter as her agent, as
it were. I tried to persuade her to attend the conference and to
explain her position to all of us, to see WIG for the creative
forum that it is. While I obviously didn't succeed in convincing
her to go to Portland, I respect her position enough t~ reiterate
some of her points here, coupled, of course, with my own reflections on them.
1) Aysel did not have the correct visa for the U.S. and as
a direct consequence of this fact, could not be paid by a number
of universities. She had a tourist visa (AI/BI) that does not
permIt work--including lecturing--for pay. My own university was
audited by the IRS a few years ago and has become extremely careful about such seeming technicalities.
I believe that there is a
"Jl" category lhat allows for lecturing. This point bears looking into for all of our future foreign guests. NOW, all of us
are sensitive to the is~ue of being paid for our work. As
academics we are generally underpaid for our efforts, because
the society at large does not value what we do. As women we have
fought the "free (or at least inexpensive) service with a smile"mentality that has been imposed on us historically. Why should
we be so surprised, then, when a woman writer balks at not being
paid for some of her pre-set speaking engagements?
2)
Aysel felt cast into a role that she did not want to
We expected a Turkish woman to tell us how Turks see
Ger~any.
Our orientation, for obvious bu~ nonetheless limIted
Tf~ason:;, wa~ complp.tely germunophllic.
What we didn't take into
play.
-4account was that a serious writer (who is also a woman, who is
ah.o a Tllrk) WdllL~ first and foremost to be treated as one, and
not as a sociological Anhangsel to German Studies. We never took
her education into full account, never considered what kind of
(long) literary tradition she might consider herself to be a part
ofi e.g., how writers a~ seemingly disparate as Simone de
Beauvoir and Nazim Hikmet have helped to shape her work.
(If
you've never heard of Nazim Hikmet, that only proves that we as a
group didn't take the trouble to learn anything about Turkish
literature. He was, in the words of Denise Levertov, "a worldfamous Turkish poet who spent more than seventeen years of his
life in jail as a political prisoner, wrote a number of powerful
poems in his confinement, poems which notably combine the context
of oppression with the unquenchable love of life that characterized him." See I..hings I Didn't Know I Loved: Selected Poems of
Nazlm Hikmet translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk [New
York, Persea Books, 1975]). Without intending to do 50, we
marginalized her.
There were misunderstandings on both sides, howev.er. Aysel
didn't understand that her audience In the United states would
consist of students and scholars whose point of common interest
~ the German language and German Studies.
It was a handicap
for her and for everyone that she could not speak English and
consequently could not reach out to a wider audience. She didn't
fully appreciate the fact that fewer of us In the U.S. are conversant in foreign languages. She wasn't very patient with
some of our undergraduate students whose German is less polished
than her own.
In conclusion, I have to say that I am still disappointed
and frustrated that Aysel didn't come to the WIG conference. She
dropped out on short notice, decided to come after all, then took
a plane to New York instead. That wasn't the responsible thing
to do. On the other hand, she got tired and depressed enough to
blow it, and I think we were partly responsible for her depression.
Sincerely,
Bl~t'~ms
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Minneapolis, den 10. 1. 88
Liebe Barb ara,
als Hauptorganisatorin von Aysel Ozakins Reise mochte ich mich kurz zu
Deinem Schreiben aUGern, das DU als Reaktion auf den Brief, den wir, das
WiG Steering Committee, an Aysel geschickt haben.
Unser Brief sollte durchaus die Enttauschung und auch Emporung
ausdrucken, die wir an unserem WiG-Wochenende verspurt haben, als Ayse1
am zweiten Konferenztag aus New York ubermittelte, nun doch nicht zu
kommen. Sie hatte immerhin ihre Lesereise in Kalifornien mit der
Begrundung unterbrochen, sich fur unsere WiG-Veranstaltung Ende Oktober
erholen zu wollen. Wenige Tage vor der Konferenz war dann plotzlich
unklar, ob sie uberhaupt noch kommen wollte. Nachdem sie mit Dir und
daraufhin mit Jan Emerson und auch mir gesprochen hatte, versprach sie
uns am Abend vor Beginn unserer Veranstaltung, sich am nachsten Tag auf
die Reise zu machen. Wir haben sicherlich aIle Verstandnis dafur, daB
eine mehrwochige Lesereise sehr anstrengend ist. Allerdings war es
Aysels Entscheidung, schon im September diese Lesereise-zu beginnen, die
sie von der Ostkuste uber Montreal, den Mittleren westen nach Kalifornien
und dann als AbschluG nach Portland bringen sollte. Wahrscheinlich hat
sie ihre Krafte uberschatzt, und wir sollten in Zukunft vielleicht auch
eher von relativ langen Lesereisen abraten. Der AnlaG fur Aysels
Nordamerika-Reise war, an unserer WiG-Konferenz teilzunehmen, und wir
waren urn so enttauschter zu wissen, daB sie sich zwar im Lande aufhielt,
aber nicht mehr nach Portland kommen wollte.
Nun zu den einzelnen Punkten, die Du ansprichst:
ad 1) Es stimmt, daG Aysel nicht das richtige Visum hatte, urn hier
Honorare fUr Lesungen beziehen zu konnen. Mit der Einladung, die ich ihr
geschickt hatte, hat sie sich auf der amerikanischen Botschaft in der
Bundesrepublik ein Visum ausstellen lassen. Mir war nicht klar, daG ein
Visum mit Arbeitserlaubnis benotigt wird, und so habe ich Aysel nicht
richtig beraten. Allerdings hat sich an den meisten Universitaten das
Problem nicht gestellt, und dort, wo es auftrat, wurden Losungen
gefunden. Aysel hat uberall fur ihre Lesung ein Honorar bezogen, das je
nach den Moglichkeiten der jeweiligen Institutionen zwischen $75 und $300
lag. Naturlich gehen wir davon aus, daG Leistungen bezahlt werden sollen
und entsprechende Vereinbarungen waren mit allen Institutionen getroffen
worden. Aysel hat nicht nur Honorare bezogen, sondern an allen Orten ist
sie entweder in sehr guten Hotels oder in Wohnungen von Frauen, die sie
betreut haben, untergebracht worden. Nebenkosten konnen ihr eigentlich
nicht entstanden seine
ad 2) Du schreibst, daG Aysel sich daruber beklagte, nicht als
eigenstandige Autorin, sondern als soziologisches Anhangsel fur German
Studies gesehen zu werden, und daG wir uns zu germanophil verhalten
haben. 1986 hatten wir beschlos~en, sie einzuladen, weil sie uns als
turkische Autorin interessiert, die in der Bundesrepublik lebt und dort
schreibt. Unsere Wahl fiel auf Aysel, da sie sich in ihren Werken auch aber nicht nur - mit der Problematik der Fremdheit befaGt und dies in
einer Weise, die die notwendigerweise entstehenden Widerspruche
einbezieht. Die Erf~hrungen in der Fremde scheinen fur sie gleichzeitig
Herausforderung und Bedrohung zu seine Mehr und mehr entfernt sich Aysel
davon,- uber Auslander(innen) in der Bundesrepublik zu schreiben, doch
auch in ihrem jungsten Werk, das Poem Zart erhob sie sich bis aie flog,
s~ielt es doch ~ine Roll~, wie ale aus ihter jetzigen positi~n ihre .
turkische GroGmutter sieht. Ohne hier weiter ins Detail gehen zu wollen,
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mochte ich nur betonen, daB uns Aysel deshalb so interessant erschien,
weil sie das recht platte Konzept der 'zwei Kulturen' (Turken in der
Bundesrepublik und Deutsche) ablehnt und in ihrer Literatur
vielschichtige Verbindungen herstellt. Wir haben sie vorrangig als
turkische Autorin, die jetzt in der .BRD lebt, eingeladen, allerdings ist
in allen Ankundigungen (vgl. z. B. WiG- Newsletter Summer 1987, S. 16)
auf ihre fruheren, in der Turkei entstandenen publikationen verwiesen
worden. Mir wurde gesagt, daB Frauen an verschiedenen Orten sich auf
Aysels Lesung auch mit diesen Werken vorbereitet haben. Hier in
Minneapolis z. B. hatten wir eine Arbeitsgruppe, in deren Rahmen wir
einige Kurzgeschichten und Gedichte ubersetzt und weitere publikationen
besprochen haben. Und es waren keine schlecht Deutsch sprechenden
Undergraduates, sondern sehr flieBend Deutsch sprechende Graduate
Studentinnen, die intensiv an Ubersetzungen gearbeitet hatten, mit denen
Aysel hier jegliches Gesprach ablehnte.
Ich sehe es nicht als Notwendigkeit an, sich grundlich in turkische
Literatur einzuarbeiten, urn Zugang zur Literatur einer in der Bundesrepub1ik lebenden Turkin bekommen zu konnen. Es ist sicherlich eine
Bereicherung, und die Materiallage ist recht gut, da in den letzten
Jahren zahlreiche Publikationen in deutscher Ubersetzung erschienen sind,
auch von in der Turkei lebenden Autorinnen, die sich ubrigens haufig mit
dem Thema der Fremde auseinandersetzen, da auch fur die im Land
Gebliebenen sich durch die veranderung der Sozialstruktur Probleme
stellen, die Niederschlag in der Literatur finden (z. B. Furuzan, Gulten
Dayiog1u).
AbschlieBend mochte ich darauf hinweisen, daB ich in meiner Einladung,
die im Oktober 1986 an Aysel geschickt worden ist, sehr deutlich gemacht
habe, daB unser Interesse sich darauf richtete, sie kennenzulernen, einer
Lesung zuzuhoren und mehr uber die Situation von Auslanderinnen in der
Bundesrepub1ik zu erfahren. Aysel nahm diese Einladung an und wuBte
somit, daB wir uns fur sie als Reprasentantin einer Minderheit
interessierten. Nun wissen wir, daB sie es vehement ablehnt, als
Autorin, die 'Auslanderliteratur' schreibt, klassifiziert zu werden. 1m
Laufe des Jahres haben wir aIle in unseren Vorbereitungen weitere Aspekte
gesehen, und es hatte sehr stimulierend werden konnen, wenn wir die
Gelegenheit gehabt hatten, uns uber diesen Gegenstandsbereich mit Aysel
auseinanderzusetzen.
Eine wertvolle Chance ist vertan worden.
Inzwischen ist der Arger uber ihr Nichterscheinen etwas verraucht, und
wir konnen die Sache sicherlich etwas ruhiger betrachten als zu dem
Zeitpunkt, an dem der Brief an Aysel verfaBt wurde. Doch ihr Verhalten
hat uns sehr enttauscht, und auch ruckblickend halte ich es fur
angemessen, daB wir unsere Emporung klar geauBert haben.
In zukunft sollte immer sehr klar sein, welche Erwartungen wir an die
eingeladene Frau haben und ob sie bereit und in der Laqe ist, denen
nachzukommen.
Ich danke Dir fur Dein Schreiben und hoffe, mit meiner Antwort einige
Unk1arheiten bezuglich der Honorierung und der Einladung beseitigt zu
haben.
Mit freund1ichen GruBen
Heidrun Suhr
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THE GERMAN LIBRARY
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In 100 Volumes
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Graduate School of Arts and Science
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
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New York. N.Y. 10003
Telephone: (212) 998-8650
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November 16, 1987
Professor Jeannine Blackwell
Department of German
1055 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027
Dear Colleague,
In my first response of March 25, 1987 to your letter about
the lack of adequate representation of women authors in our
German Library series, I promised a more thorough reply.
I have since circulated your letter among the members of the
editorial board and encouraged them to discuss it also with
colleagues. We have now had a two-day meeting of the committee
where we tried to determine the contents of the remaining 70
volumes anew and where the concerns raised in your letter were
discussed at considerable length.
The general consensus was that, of course, your points were
well taken. At the same time it was pointed out that many if not
most of the names mentioned in your letter, especially those in
the modern period, were already part of our original planning.
In the title-list published so far, they are hidden under summary
titles such as "Contemporary Prose" or "Early 20th-Century Poetry."
That sizable portions of Else Lasker-Schuler's poetry, or representative selections of prose by Christa Wolf, Anna Seghers, Ingeborg
Bachmann to name but a few, had to be included was never in doubt.
But the impression the old lis.t created, (for which I am the one to
blame, not the committee) was indeed unfortunate, and it should be
remedied.
Actually, this is not as' easy as it might first appear. Let
me just mention a few problems to illustrate the complexity of the
undertaking. The idea to have a 100-volume set encompassing all of
the German tradition obviously meant that we should not restrict
ourselves to literature. But to include philosophy from Kant to
Heidegger, sociology from Max Weber to the Frankfurter Schule,
Constitutional Law, Labour Movement and· Socialism, Music and
Musicology, Art History, Politics, History, Criticism, Science,
etc., meant that only about 60 volumes were left for literature
proper. The limitation to 300 pages per volume, excluding most
-8novels for instance, further reduces the overall choice. Considering
the format of our series, this is only 150% of the Harvard German
Classics, which as you know, restricted itself to the 19th century.
The point is, although the number·of volumes sounds formidable, the
actual number of texts that can be included is relatively small.
Under those circumstances a lot of thought has been given
precisely not "to recreate the canon as it has stood since the
early days of Germanistik" as you say in your letter. If you look
closely you will find that quite a number of changes have been made,
different accents been set, when compared to previously accepted
canons. I am referring not only to the obvious, i.e. less of Storm,
C.F. Meyer, Hebbel, and more of Buchner, Kleist, Fontane, (and yes,
Raabe), but to the inclusion of Fairy Tales, Kunstmarchen, Wilhelm
Busch, etc. Since the series is meant also for the general American
reader, particular importance had been given in our view to authors
who, although known to Germanists, never had much of an impact on
the American public, due to the fact that they had either never
been translated (Raabe, Fontane), or quickly vanished from the market
(Kleist stories, BUchner).
But more to the particular issues raised in your letter. With
few exceptions, all the authors you mention will be represented in
various volumes. Poems by Droste (vol.l9) and Judenbuche (vol. 37)
as well as Krambabuli by Ebner-Eschenbach (vol. 38) are already out.
Ingeborg Bachmann and Christa Wolf will have a separate volume.
There will be two volumes of 20th-century poetry (with little or no
Benn, Rilke, Brecht, since they have separate volumes) which among
others will include Else Lasker-Schuler, Hilde Domin, Sarah Kirsch.
At least two volumes of contemporary prose are scheduled, for which,
in addition to the names in your letter, Christa Meckel, Elizabeth
Plessen, Waltraud Mogner, Ricarda Huch, Ruth Rehmann and others are
likely possibilities. There will also be one volume dedicated to
"Feminist Writing and Theory," edited by Patricia Herminghouse. The
final choice of which texts to include, of course, always lies with
the particular volume editor.
Since Profetssor Peter Wapnewski, Berlin, recently resigned
from the editorial board, we asked Professor Patricia Herminghouse,
University of Rochester, to take his place. She has now accepted so
that her voice and expertise will contribute to our ongoing deliberations.
Thank you again for your concern which I am sure has helped us
to improve the list .
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Mit freundlichen Grussen,
Volkmar Sander
General Editor
The German Library
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CONFER€NC€ R€PORTS
MlA
1987
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LITERATURE IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC DURING THE 19708 AND 19808
Pcovinz und Pcovinzia1itat in dec DDR-Literatur der achtziger Jahre
In der 1iterarischen Landschaft der DDR ist in den achtziger Jahren
die Provinz in den B1ickfang geraten. Von den zahlreichen in diesem
Jahrzehnt erschienenen Werken, die im provinziellen Milieu angesiedelt
sind, analysiert diese Arbeit G. de Bruyns Neue Herr1ichkeit (1985), Ch.
Heins Horns Ende (1985) und W. vo11gers Das Windhahn-Syndrom (1983). In
diesen drei Rornanen sind es nicht aUBere Faktoren, die den jewei1igen
Schauplatz als Provinz abstempeln, sondern die durch bestimmte
mensch1iche Denkweisen und Verha1tensrnuster gepragte so~iale Atmosphare.
Provinz steht a1s Metapher flir Rlickstandigkeit des Denk~ns, Unduldsamkeit
und politische Apathie, aber ebenso flir Desi1lusionierung und
fehlgeschlagene Hoffnung. Flir die meisten Charaktere hat das Leben in
der provinz, das Sich-Abfinden mit einer begrenzten Sicht- und
Erfahrungsweise, schlimme Folgen, da die spieBige Atmosphare geistiges
und charakterliches Wachstum behindert. Viele der dargestellten Figuren
sind verbitterte, see1isch kranke oder verkrlippelte Menschen. Als
Hauptursache derart emotionaler Storungen verweisen die drei Romane auf
ein Grundlibel der sozialistischen Gese1lschaftsordnung: den Vorenthalt
von Welt, die Abgrenzung von Einflussen, die von der Obrigkeit als
storend oder gar schadlich erachtet werden. Eine solche Abschrottung
produzierteinerseits ein libermachtiges Verlangen nach Ausbruch andererseits fuhrt sie in eine Kultur der Beschrankung, des Lebens in
kleinen geschutzten Nischen, die Zuflucht bieten vor den Zugriffen der
Obrigkeit. Die Kehrseite einer derart abgeschirmten Existenz sind a1lzu
oft mangelnde Identifikation mit Staat und Gesellschaft sowie reduzierte
Vita1itat und Verantwortungsfreude. Der neuerdings in der Literatur so
haufig auftauchende Schauplatz Provinz gewinnt eine besondere Brisanz,
weil Provinz hier zum Modell fur die Provinzia1itat der DDR wird. Die
Befurchtung vieler DDR-Klinstler und Intellektuel1er, an einer von Staat
und Partei erwunschten Provinzialitat zu erkranken oder gar zu ersticken,
konnte die Triebfeder dieser bemerkenswerten literarischen Tendenz seine
lIse Winter
Denison University
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Women, Literature, and Social criticism in the GOR
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This paper begins to explore the relationship between
literature and social criticism in the GOR and the prominent role
that women have played in developing an activist, but generally
non-confrontational approach to social problems. The changing
relationship between readers and writers, in which writers
mediate between the private and the public spheres, consciously
using literature as an instrument of investigation and a vehicle
of agitation for social change, are its central focus. I am
particularly interested in the implications of the formal
aspects of this changing relationship, illustrated by the rapid
shift to documentary and semi-documentary forms.
The development in the works of particularly women writers
in the slightly more than a decade since the expulsion of Wolf
Biermann has been less confrontational, but in some ways
fundamentally more challenging to the status quo than many of the
better known dissident or expatriate writers. Its lack of
political polemic and support of socialist ideals has led to a
relative lack of interest and mixed reception on the part of
Western critics who tend to be so intent on locating system
criticism that they are blind to more subtle and potentially more
revolutionary change within the existing political structure.
The questions addressed in the paper include: How have
particularly women writers expanded the content of literarysocial discussion from specifically "feminist" issues in the late
1970s to include the physically and mentally handicapped, the old
and dying, homosexuality, suicide, and abortion in the mid-1980s?
This recent trend to exploration of the "non-representative"
individual has deliberately tested or violated the established
taboos. What goals or literary-social agendas do these authors
support? What motivations do they express? Are women authors
merely extending their caring, reproductive roles to the public
sphere? Are women deliberately using these roles to achieve
change, or are these changes evidence of a reformulation of the
relationship between the individual and the state in the GOR?
After a brief overview of works published in the late 1970s
and early 1980s which raised the issue of women's emancipation
(Morgner, Konigsdorf, Schubert, Wander, and Wolf), I would like
to discuss more recent issue-oriented works (Geppert, Worgitzky,
Probst, Johannis, Oberthur, Rauchfuss, among others) in light of
the questions raised above. I have interviewed several of these
authors and would like to try to integrated the aspect of social
consciousness and authorial intention into a discussion of
literature as a vehicle of social criticism in the GOR.
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-11"Text as Locus, Inscription as Identity:
in the GDR."
Narrating the Heimat
My deliberations in this talk, in which I concentrate on
Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Barbara Honigmann's Roman von
einem Kinde, are part of a larger project on the problems of
narrating the Heimat.in recent German literature.
The narrative recuperation of the Heimat in the GDRi while
motivated by a complex need shared by colleagues in the Bundesrepublik, is uniquely complicated by the notion of neue Heimat.
As these two works abundantly demonstrate, the rigidity of the
neue Heimat produces an Entfremdung that compels Entfernung. Both
narrators remove themselves from the GDR - Wolf to Poland, Honigmann to orthodox Judaism and the Thora in France.
Ultimately,
Heimat is sought in the narrative process, in terms of linguistic
inscription, in the tenuous community of language.
Wolf's longing for a time "in der noch nichts entschieden
war, der Zeit vor dem Anfang" (105), toward that palaeontological
period in which rIder Mensch noch abwesend [ist] ", suggests a
retrospective act of hopeful progression toward a r.eclamation of
the word, individuum (which, as she notes in St5rfall, means the
same thing in Latin as Atom means in Greek:
indivisible [unspaltbar]).
The admission of division acknowledges "alienation", the
lonliness of which, according to Luk~cs, the novel is the transcendental form, of Entfremdung.
In approaching these two works,
we are struck first by the echoes in the titles.
If, however,
we agree to define Heimat most generally as a state of once-felt
security, as a stage that predates the perceived separation of the
self into subject and object and the concomitant acquisition of
guilt, then we should not be surprised at the similar thrust of
titles that suggest a remembering of things past, that refer us to
childhood and, in the process, delete from their discourse the
comfortable oxymoron of that adjective, neu.
The act of re-membering that is the project of Wolf's KM and
Honigmann's Roman von einem Kinde involves primarily a reconstruction of self vis-a-vis self, a deciphering of text that struggles,
in the process, against taking shape as book.
The rigidity of the
book is highlighted by both authors in third person narratives.
Just as Wolf's narrator in Christa T seeks her character (primarily
in her writings) only to "lose her again"; or as the narrator in
Kindheitsmuster can read the figure of her past only in the third
person, so Honigmann's story, "Doppeltes Grab (about Gershom
Scholem), enacts the disparity of voices.
I conclude that my title is self-contradictory, for it suggests
a permanence where there can be none, especially for those authors
who write at the margin, or who displace the center of discourse by
the use of the first person, by syntactic definition a part of a
larger whole - a community; and the first, whose definition as
entity is self-referential.
Striking, especially in this context
that compares the alienatio~ of Jew and of socialist in the GDR is
the anticipation of this problematic in the Mishnah, some 2000 years
ago: "If I am not myself, who am I?
If I am only for myself, what
am I?
If not now, when?"
(And does this not, incidentally, find
its echo in Nachdenken Uber Christa T. ?)
Marilyn Sibley Fries
University of Michigan
WEIBLICHKEIT UND AVANTGARDE
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Des Trauerspie/ des prostituierten Korpers. Die Frau als Alleoorie der Moderne.
Connecting the question of woman and femininity to the experience of history, I suggest that
"woman be seen as related to the crltical prCX]ram of the historical avantgarde because the
latter meant to disclose the exploitation of the psycholCX]ical mechanism of oppetirance (Schein)
in the works of art. Woman essentially has the same function as the aesthetic to provide the
subject wlth an "authentic experience" . Since this experience In the aesthetiC, as a realm
separate from everyday, historical reality, it is an artificially mediated experience
(Scheinerfahrung). I continue to develop the aesthetic realm as a realm of fantasy experiences
supported by the subject's projecting his desire for wholeness and bliss onto the mediating
aesthetic object. Since this desire is unconsciously motivated by a happily experienced past, the
mother-child symbiosis, art and woman offer an illusory connection to history while
suppressing the (unpleasant) experience of the historical present. This reception of art results
in the loss of historical consciousness and the inability of an historical agency that might change
life praxis.
Woman's traditional status in the aesthetic as humanity's ideal required that she be
a-sexual. The denial of woman's bOOy fostered woman's value as imlX]e which I interpret as a
Freudian prOjection surface for male fantasies. (The "dead bOOy" of woman is ultimately
responsible for woman's absence in history as an agent). Drawing on Walter Benjamin's work on
modernity and alle9)ry, I elaborate the significance of the dead bcxty in the representational
system of aesthetics. While in trooitional aesthetics the subject was not aware of this dead bcxty
in the mediating structure of the aesthetic system of meaning, in modernity, and esp. in
.:lvantgardlst art, the subject Is being confronted with the Illusionary Quality of his experience
in the aesthetic realm. What becomes visible in the avantgardist works of art constructed of
fragments is the surface and exchange character of the aesthetic sign. Consequently, the subject's
transcendental anchoring in art and the aura of woman is no longer possible. The new such
anchor in modernity, as I go on to show in Benjamin's prostitute, is sexuality.
Meaning in the modern world of fragments is now formed by the melancholy subject's
conceiving of these fragmentary pieces as fetishes, as means for 8 substitute experience of bliss.
Through the fragmentation of the female bcxty and the semiotization of the female genitals in
prostituition, woman represents, on the one hand, the fragmented experience of reality in
modernity, on the other hand, through the make-up of her sex she supports the appearance of
"once upon a time it was beautiful." Preserved in the prostitute is the original relationship
between woman and the aesthetic.
In the aesthetic disguise the prostitute resembles the commodity. Fashion uses woman just
as art had used her before as an image surface behind which the bcxty disappears, dies. The
dominance of looking in modernity supports a lifeless body. Fetishism signifies the atrophy of
sensous experience even in the sexual realm where sexual experience is reduced to scopophilia.(
(By sexually charging the visual stimulation in modern metropoliS woman in the prostitute
helps to create en aesthetic filter through which the subject perceives modern environment.)
. Thus, woman, while representing a social ideal for humanity in the 18th century, turns in
the role of prostitute into a caricature of her own history. The whore sells, in the form of
physical pleasure, her oppeorance of femininity as well as the implicit illusion of (lost) bliss.
Attached to the prostttute Qua woman is the aesthetic illusion Qf a value from the past--a value
that can be identified with the feeling of nostalgia. At the same time, this illusion is demystified,
and demasked as an article, when exchanged for money.
If modernity is determined by the commodity character of history, and Benjamin, by
analyzing fashion, has already alleQJrized the world of commodities as the corpse of history,
then woman represents in the prostitute the alle9)ry of (aesthetic) history. Alle9)ry is to be
seen as different ~rom the mimetic-symbolic system of representBtion because.it deconstructs
the latter's production of appearance and of an illusory totality.
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-13SUBJECTIVITY AND HISTORY: NEW APPROACHES TO VORMXRZ LITERATURE I
Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen: An Alternative Zeitroman
MY consideration of Lewald's Wandlungen (1853) as an alternative Zeitroman
is threefold.
First, I suggest Wandlungen merits inclusion in the relatively
recent, but fast-forming Zeitroman canon. Second, in attempting to capture
the spirit of the Vormarz, Lewald herself views the form of this novel as an
alternative to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels (the prototype of the Zeitroman)
and to Gutzkow's Die Ritter vom Geiste, the most prominent example of the
mid-nineteenth century Zeitroman. Third, Wandlun~ is Lewald's first major
novel written after the failed Revolution of 1848~ The novel treats the events
and issues of the latter half of the Vormarz, but the dashed hopes of the
Revolution evoke in Lewald a vision which has changed markedly from that of
her earlier, more polemical writings.
Towatd the opening of Wandlungen, Lewald formulates theoretically how
the concerns of all social classes can best be represented in "the novel of
the future." The educated diction and aesthetically harmonious style of Goethe'c
Wilhelm Meister, reflecting a hierarchically ordered society, is no longer a
valid mode of expression. Lewald also implicitly criticiz~s Die Ritter vom
Geiste for its unwieldy proportions. By eschewing excesses of plot and suspense
and focusing on the psychological development of individual characters, leaving
nothing to chance, an author can automatically set limits on the novel.
Wandlungen presents the goals and de~ires of men and women of all social
classes and examines the collective and individual response to the predominant
political, social, institutional, religious, and intellectual forces of the
VormKrz. By showing the ability or inability to respond to change of a variety
of representative characters, and thereby synthesizing individual fate with
historical events, Lewald creates an alternative format for mirroring recent
history.
Irene Stocksieker Di Maio
Lousiana State University Baton
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HEINE: FEMINIST APPROACHES
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-'J'appartiens
Madame Varnhagen': Heinrich Heine und Rahel
Levin-Varnhagen.~ased on a critical feminist reading of Levin-Varnhagen's
etters an~ Heine's early works and correspondence the
paper ~xam1nes the possible influence of Levin-Var~hagen
th~ wr~ter and of,her aesthetics of letters on the young
He1ne 1n the 1820 s. At the same time both authors' are
d~scussed as German Jewish literary outsiders whose
dlfference as male and female writers in the early 19th
c1entur y shaped to a large"extent their texts and their
anguage.
Elke Frederiksen
University of Maryland-College Park
-14Der'Poet der neusten Zeit' Ubernimmt das alte Frauenbild.
Zu Heinrich Heines Bericht'Uber Polen'
Heinrich Heines Werke kritisieren politische und gesellschaftliche Konzepte oft auf das schMrfste.
Bei der Untersuchung des
Berichts Uber Polen fMllt jedoch auf, dass seine Beschreibung von
Frauen eine vBllig unkritische Ubernahme althergebrachter Vor- und
Fehlurteile darstellt.
Der Grund hierfUr ist ein Erfahrungsproblem:
als Mann innerhalb einer Gesellschaft, die Frauen als minderwertig
und in jeder Hinsicht zweitrangig hinter dem Manne ansah, war es
auch einem Gesellschaftskritiker wie Heine nicht mBglich, den mMnnlichen Blickwinkel zu verMndern.
Er sah in Frauen das, was er zu
sehen erwartete, und im Vergleich mit einem thematisch Mhnlichen
Werk von Therese Huber stellt sich heraus, dass weibliche und mMnnliche Betrachtungsweisen von Frauen sich - in der Literatur wie auch
allen anderen Bereichen des Lebens - polar gegenUberstehen.
Die
feministische Literaturwissenschaft will an diesem Erfahrungs- und
Erkenntnisproblem anknUpfen, urn anhand der daraus zu ziehenden
SchlUsse eine Literaturbetrachtung mBglich zu machen, die 'diese soziohistorisch geschlechtsbedingte PolaritMt und damit eine qualitative
Normierung von Literatur nach mMnnlichen Erfahrungsmustern Uberwindet.
Tamara Felden Archibald
California
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GALANTE POETINNEN:
GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
"Ungallant Poetry? Anna Ovena Hoyers and Low German as a Literary
Language" explores the use of Low German by A.O. Hoyers (15841655), a native of Schleswig-Holstein. Her Geistliche und
Weltliche Poemata (Am3terdam: Elzevier, 1650) contain two pieces
in Low German, a dramatic satire against the clergy and an'
'occasional poem which demands payment for merchandise. Without
access to the learned tradition and with blatant disregard for
the Opitzian verse reform and for the dominant models of
"gallant~ poetry, Hoyers used a sophisticated and colorful Low
German for her satiric verses during the crucial period of
language change in the seventeenth century, as did other women
writers (occasionally) in Northern Germany up to the time of (and
inlcuding) Luise Gotsched.( A.O. Hoyers Geistliche und Weltliche
Poemata are available in a reprint edition with comm-entary and
poems from the Stockholm manuscript at Niemeyer, Tilbingen, 1986).
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Barbara Becker-Cantarino
Ohio State University
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-15Aurora vonKon igsrnark: .Epi tome of a - galan tePoet inIn 1715 G. C. Lehms dedicated his lexicon ot women writers, Teutschlands
galante Poetinnen, to the countess Aurora von Konigsmarck. He presents
his concept of her in the first_section, entitled -Portrait der
Geistreichen und gelehrten Aurora.- The pages are fillea ~~LU
extravagant praise, as is customary in dedications of the time. But tne
qualities of mind and spirit cited by Lehms are especially significant.
His ideal of the -galante Poetin- is a woman who is intellectually
gifted, being able to comprehend the most difficult matters without undue
effort. She displays a sense of decorum in treating either light-hearted
or serious occasions in the appropriate manner. Although the word
-galant- acquired ambiguous connotations during the 18th century, it was
applied during her lifetime to the countess Aurora in a fashion which
makes it clear nothing but praise of her was intended. In his
description of the countess Konigsmarck Lehms devotes an illuminating
phrase to her poetic activity: she -setzet einen VerB auf/ der aIle Welt
charmiren und in Verwunderung setzen mUB.- Poetry was not the lonely
outpouring of thought or feeling but rather an ornament for social life.
The reaction of the hearer or reader was an important part of the poetic
experience.
Members of the public then, as they do today, enjoyed learning about the
life styles of the rich and famous. Thus the detailed description of the
festivities arranged to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Duchess
Elisabeth Juliana of Braunschweig-Luneburg at the newly erected palace in
Salzdahlem during the last days of May, 1694, belongs to a genre extant
today in certain popular television programs. Aurora's poem produced on
this occasion was a great success. It captured a moment in the social
life of this privileged set and seemed to be inspired by the
circumstances, produced without the constraints of rigid rules.
The -galant- style was one which avoided the appearance of obeying
rules. Verse-making has become a kind of game in which good manners,
compliments, the entertainment of the group, and improvisation are
combined. At the other end of the -galant- spectrum are the religious
poems which the countess Konigsmarck had written a few years earlier in
Stockholm. They are written in the first person. Several of them convey
a dramatic confrontation between the poet and the Deity. She may express
childlike and absolute love for her creator. She is even able to thank
God that he has punished her to improve her, as a loving father chastises
his children. Or she rejects the world with all its griefs and joys as
she longs for the consolations of heaven. It lay in the nature of
agalante Dichtung- that the creative writer be able to adapt to and
express various relationships and widely disparate emotions, providing
appropriate responses to the situation of the moment.· The poetry of
Aurora von Konigsmarck reveals a broad range in tone, style and content.
Lehms admired her ability to adapt her poetic expression not only to her
subject matter but to the social surroundings in which her verse was
produced or read. No wonder Lehms saw in her the epitome of the -galante
Poetin.Jean M. Woods
University of Oregon-Eugene
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·The Poet Aramena and her Novel Margaretha von tlsterreich:
Women Writing Novels·
In 1716, an author know only as Aramena published an original novel
entitled: Die Durchlauchtigste Margaretha von Oesterreich In einer
Staats= und Heldengeschichte der galanten Welt zu vergnUgter
GemUths=Ergotzung communiciret . . . Hamburg , In Verlegung Samuel Heils.
1716. In her foreword, she states that she has done this to prove that
women too can write novels, and that she has picked this particular
genre because, over the years, it had given her the most instruction
and delight. Margaretha, therefore is to serve as proof that women too
can write novels that both instruct and delight. This two-fold purpose
is the novels greatest strength and also its weakness. By sticking
faithfully to its historical sources, the novel often deteriorates
into an enumeration of dates and events. Whenever Aramena manages to
go beyond her sources, the novel offers delightful passages of tales
within a tale, love letters, and glimpses into real-life characters
and situations, reflecting early eighteenth-century ideas about the
role of women and men.
To my knowledge, Aramena (the pseudonym has not been solved) is the
only woman author who wrote and published a novel at that time. But
her work does indeed show what the author set out to show, namely the
"gua1itates animae" of women.
Cornelia N. Moore
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Women and Work in the GOR
Women and Work in the GDR:
-17Sarah Kirsch's Pantherfrau
Though not intended as a feminist document, this collection of
five tape-recorded interviews offers a peculiarly feminine insight
into the lives of working women in the GDR by presenting sUbjective
accounts of individuals, accounts which also have the cumulative
effect of increasing our understanding of overall working conditions
in the GDR.
Reading the words of women as diverse as a panther tamer
and an electronics worker, we are made aware of 1) an overriding
identification of women with their work, 2) a common sense of frustration in women's personal lives, 3) the GDR's emphasis on collective
activity in all phases of life, and, despite this emphasis, 4) each
woman's ultimate reliance on herself alone.
This collection merges not only the objective and sUbjective
nature of fact-finding, but the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction
as well.
Sarah Kirsch's editing turns these interviews first into
autobiographies, then into narratives, and finally, through her closing
italicized distillations of each interview, into lyric~ True, the
unseen editor's role in this process is rather covert.
Nevertheless,
the work may be regarded as a new form of literature, a collaborative
art form, in which the roles of author and subject overlap and intermingle, subverting the power relationship of author to subject matter
in traditional works of literature.
Ultimately, Die Pantherfrau conveys not only information about
women and work in the GDR, but the experience of lives lived, and offers
us a mirror and a measuring stick for our own lives as working women.
Marion Farber
Swarthmore College
SCHATTENRISS EINES LIEBHABERS
THE OTHER WOMAN IN RECENT FICTION BY GDR WOMEN WRITERS
In this paper I investigate the treatment of the Other Woman, the single
woman involved in an affair with a married man, in several works of fiction
GDR women writers, and I maintain that the Other Woman, a figure who occurs
with astonishing frequency In recent GDR writing, 15 a complex metaphor,
teased to its extremes, for the state of gender relations in the GDR.
In th,
person of the Other Woman are combined the contradictions between work and
love GDR women must attempt to reconcile In their own lives, the tension
between professional success and Independence in the public realm and the
realm of intimate relations, where men's expectations of patriarchal
prerogatives and women's needs for eroticism, nurturance, and support often
continue unchanged. Like the adultery so frequently portrayed in the novel~
of nineteenth century realism, the new Other Woman of GDR fiction also rev~a
the Irreconcilability of the public and the private, but with a shift of foe.
corresponding to the GDR's new socl~l arrangements. Christa Wolf in ·Der
Schatten eines Traumes" (using GUnderrode's life to illuminate contemporary
problems), Brigitte Reimann In Franziska Linkerhand, Brigitte Martin in Der
rote Ba110n, Christine Wolter In DIe Hintergrundsperson, Rosemarie Zeplln in
·SchattenriB eines Llebhabers," and Helga Konlgsdorf In "Bolero· Investigate
In varying ways the conditions of life of the GDR Other Woman but come to
similar conclusions: economically and socially independent, the Other Woman
Is rarely driven by passion, hopes for emotional support and stability from
her lover, and receives very little of anything at all. If the adulterous
wife of the nineteenth century novel was loved too much, by too many men, tb·
new Other Woman is loved far too little by a single man to whom she has only
very partial claim--the ·SchattenrlB eines [.iebhabers.· What has become
-18irreconcilable now is women's public autonomy with her private ~appines:, ,so
long as gender relations do not change to correspond to new social conditions.
The service of these recent works of GDR fiction is to show ~ha~ the Other
Women's problems are not just individual ones, arising,from l~dlvidual ,
failings and inadequacies, but social problems, demanding soclal analysls arid
solutions. In that regard, the treatment of the Other Woman in recent GDR
fiction is operative in the best sense of socialist writing, ~ criti~al
,
reflection of current social reaiity, intended as a contributlon to the cffott
to transform it.
SARA LENNOX
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT?
REFLECTIONS ON THE COURSE OF AMERICAN FEMINISM
In this paper I try to return to the origins of feminism to discover the
reasons for the contradictory state of feminism today, where obvious gains
made by women contrast to the malaise of feminism in the Reagan era.
The
original women's liberation movement, forged in the sixties, sought, I argue,
true liberation, not merely equity within existing society, and believed that
our struggle should be waged in common with other oppressed groups struggling
for their own liberation. Yet from the beginning we mostly white, mostly
middle-class feminists never clearly grasped or investigated our own
contradictory location within a larger world shaped by capitalism and
Imperialism, SO that there was always a ·you can't get there from here"
dimension to our quest for liberation. Like white men before us, we made our
own experience the measure of everyone else'S, often arguing that the
oppression of women was the first and most fundamental form of oppression. We
also misunderstood how oppression was exercised and experienced, emphasizing
culture and consciousness because of their importance in our own lives. By
the mid-seventies, some radical feminists had even come to maintain that
women's culture and consciousness were inherently superior to men's. so that
feminists' goal should not longer be the transformation of the larger society.
but the Identification and elaboration of an autonomous or even tiepartist
feminist counter culture. Though such analyses loosed an enormous burst of
feminist creativity, they can now be identified as a variant of what has been
termed -romantic anticapitalism,- a critique of the present society in the
form of the assertion that a more authentic alternative to the prcsent exists
to which it is possible to retreat. Yet the brutality of the Reagan era has
revealed the inadequacy of these feminist arguments of the seventies, which
are without explanations or strategies for the plight of women in the
eighties. But I conclude by arguing that, as long as feministscontinue to
represent women's interests and raise feminist demands in every pol itical
context of which we're part, it's not so terrible that an autonomous women's
movement isn't our primary form of political organization. Our successes and
mistakes have taught us how to struggle in coalition with others, and in this
presidential campaign the Rainbow Coalition offers us, for the first time in
years, the real possibility of building a broad-based national movement. The
times might be a'changin'--but at least In part, whether they change or not is
up to us.
Note: This is ~ revised version of a paper' I presented at Wig in 1986--with a
much more optimistic conclusion!
SARA LENNOX
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Dokumentarfilm. ORF. Internationak Filmfc"'riei( Berlin
.£In p.rtekte. Paa, od.r die Unzucht wech.elt
IhreHaut.
Video. 12 Min .. ZDF. ORF
-DI. Zwelh.1t d., N.turVideo. ORF. ars electronica
-U.ntallmag •• oder d.r Zug.ng zur Welt.
Mit.ubcit. l. Preis im WellbC"Vo'erb inlcrnallonakr Compulerfilme, an electronica. linz 1987
1987 .D., Wlene, Aktlonlamu., .In. Dokumentatlon.
ORF. lwei Fol&en yon 4S Min.
Drehbuch und Re&ie
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Valie Export
WIG CONFERENCE '88
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
1970 Wlen. Bildkompcndium \\'iCII~r t\klionismus .lind Fi1111.
Wc:ibeIlExpor! (Milarbeil). Kllhlkun\l\wlag
1972 Zyklua zur Zlvlllaatlon. Zur ~IYlh,\loltie der zi"ili~alnri·
sehen Prolesse. FOlomappe mil cincm Von"Or! von Gllnlcr
8rus. Edilion KUr! Kalb. Wicn
1973 atadtl vlaualle atrukturen (/U,. 11111 H. tlen<lr,d,).
Edilion lilcralurprodulcnlen. JUj:cnd lind Volk \"'r1;.~.
Mllnehcn/Wicn
1973 -wer nlcht bemalt lat, lat atumpfsl'1nlg •• :0-:"11"Kroncnzcilung/Tagcbueh
IY7l Woman'a Art. Ein Manif... \1 (IY7~). N... uc~ Foru111. Janno.
Wien
1973 Gertrude Stein I Virginia Woolf. Femlnlamua und
Kunat. Neues Forum. J:!nner. Wicn
1973 Femlnlamua und Kunat 2. Tall. l"cue~ Forum. \Iart.
Wien
1973 Femlnlamua und Kunat 3. Tall. Neu ... , Forum. Juni' Juli.
Wien
1974 Photo/Uteratur. Edilion Seuc Te'le I~. linz/(hlem:id.
1974 OEDICHTE. Edilion Neue Tnlc 14. linz/Ostcrrcich
1975 Zur aaachichta der Frau In der Kunatgeachlchte.
MAGNA. Fcminismus und "un'l. Hrsg. Valie Export. Galeri.:
nllehsl SI. Slephan. Wicn
1975 Worka from 1968-1975. A Comprehension. Bicnnale d..Pari~. Hr'g. Valie Export. Wieo
1975 Aktlonan In: dlel6wln. HrW. G.J. Lischka. Bern
1975 Frau und Kreatlvltit. Zur Siluation und Kreati"it:!t der
Frau. Forum fllr aktuclle Kun~I.lnnsbrud
1975 Oedlcht .. Dimension. A conlemporary of german .rlS and
lellen. University of Texas. USA
1977 K6rperkonfiguraUonen 1972-76, Galerie Krinzingcr.
Innsbrue". Galerie Stampa Basel. Hng. Valie Export
1977 Ubertegungen zum Verhlltnls Frau und KreaUvl.
tAt. KUnstlerinnen international. Berlin
1979 aedlchte in; leh lebe allcine. Hr5g. Bettina Best. Matthes &
ScilZ Verlag. Munehen
1980 V.lle Export, Biennale di Venezia. Hrsg. Valie Export. Wien
1980 FemlnlaUacher Aktlonlsmua. Aspakte in: Frauen in
der Kunst. Hrsg. G. Nabako .... ski. H. Sander. P. Gorsen. edition Suhrkamp
I: ""nfi~ura,"·ncn. FOil>.
.:raficn IY6X-77. ElIili"n N"ue lexle. l.i.lI :{)""rreid,
Delta. A Fragment. Hi~h I'crf""'""lc~.I.''' ,\n~de'
Expanalon der Kunat. 11,,1' . .111/~cn Klau,. lill-I";n
"UI"lbuch
Kunat mit Elgen.Slnn. IIr~g. ,S. Eihllllayr. \. bl"'rt.
M. Prischl-~Iai ... r. !.oder Vcrl;,,,. Wi"n
Scratch Cinema experimental. Pari.
Ole Zwelhelt de, Natur (II". lIIil 1'. Wcit-d). an cle,··
tmllica.l.illl/(hl,·rrdch
Self. Neue SdbSlhilllni"c Hln Fram·n. FruucnrIlU,"-"III. lIonn
1'1/11) KORPERSPLITTER. Band
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19117
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Das Reale und sein Double:
Der K~rper. Bern:Benteli
Verlag
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Thanks so much for your generous contribution toward,the,purchase of she~ts
and towels for our Renewal Center. Know that your glft 1S deeply apprec1ated
as we continue to serve the people who corne here. May the blessings of peace
and good health be yours always!
Gratefully,
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CALLS fOR PAPE:RS
CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS
We invite contributions for the book review section of the Women in
German Yearbook and the Women in German Newsletter. For the
Yearbook, we are primarily interested in reviews of recent poetry,
prose and drama. Send one copy each to Susanne Kord & Leslie
Morris, Department of German, Herter Hall, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003; and Karin Obermeier, GraduiertenKolleg Siegen, Am Fachbereich 3 der Universitat-Gesamthochschule
Siegen, Postfach 101240, 5900 Siegen, FRG.
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I am working on a project on German women playwrights in the 18th
and 19th centuries, and need help with the search for material.
Does anyone have or know about primary and relevant secondary
literature? I am also interested in anything that deals with women
and writing, women and the theater, the education of women etc. If
you can help me, please contact Susanne Kord, German Dept., Herter
Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
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WIG COH?EREUCE
CAL L
Oct. 20-23, 1988
FOR
PAP E R S
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Friday, Oct. 21
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
This session
is an open forum for short presentations (5-10 ~in.)
on p~ojects currently undervay or recently co~pleted.
We invite
you to share your york (article, book, disse~tation, gra~t proposal,
community pr'oject, conference, ne·... course) vith everyone at the
conference.
Our aim in providiI1/; this' session is to of!'er a
better opportunity for the exchange of ideas and to put WIG
~embers vith similar interest in touch vith each other.
To be included on the program, send Jour na~e and topic title,
a sentence or tvo of descriptio~, by. October 14, 1989 to both
coordinators:
Karin
~ith
German Dept., UMass, Amherst, ~A 01003
Clausen, Mod. ~or. Lang., Indiana-?urdue, Fort ~ayne.
Ober~eier,
J~anette
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WIG. YE:ARDOOI<
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Contributions are invited for the Women in German Yearbook. We
are interested in feminist approaches to all aspects of German
literary/cultural/language studies, including teaching. Prepare
manuscr1pt for anon ous review. Documentation according to the
MLA Handbook. 2nd ed. 1984. Manuscripts already under consideration elsewhere are not accepted.
Contributions are welcome at any time. Those received by
April 15, 1988 will be considered for vol. 5 of the journal. to
appear in spring 1989. You can expect a decision within 3-4
months of manuscript submission. Send one copy to each coeditor:
Helen Cafferty, Asst. Dean
Hawthorne/longfellow Hall
Bowdoin College
BrunswiCk, ME 04011
Jeanette Clausen
Modern Foreign Languages
Indiana U.-Purdue U.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
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ANNUAL WIG CONFERENCE
MINNEAPOLIS 1988
THEORY? WHICH THEORY?
What is our relation to the major theory debates? Which theories ?o we use in our writing
and teaching and why? Should there be or can there ~e a relatIon betweer:t theory a~~
ractice? These are some of the questions we :vould ~ike to see a~d.ressed 10 very bne
Presentations, possibly "Thesen-Papiere," in WhICh a glve~ ~eory IS pr~sented, defended
~r criticized, and applied to a text. Please submit a short bIblIography wIth your proposal.
Selected bibliographies will be published in the Newsletter, so that mterested conference
participants can prepare for the (lively) discussion to follow!
Send proposals or papers and bibliographies to both:
Tineke Ritmeester
Dept. of Women's Studies
Uruversity of Minnesota
Duluth, MN 55812
(218) 724-4118
Jan Emerson
German Dept.
Reed College
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 231-0590
DEADLINE: MAY 31,1988
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GALL FOR PAPERS
Pedagogy Session, Women in German Annual Conference
. October 20 - 23, 1988
FEMINIST APPROACHES TO TEACHING GERMAN FILM
We are interested in presentations, papers, and demonstrations which
deal with the teaching of German film in high school, college, and
university. Presentations may treat the methodes) of instructing
one particular film or of organizing an entire film course. Speakers
should address the successes and problems which they have encountered
or can anticipate when teaching German film from a feminist perspective.
Copies of syllabi, bibliographies, and information on film availability
are also welcome for distribution at the session.
Send a 1-page abstract by April 1, 1988 to both:
Lorely French
Dept. of Foreign Languages
Pacific University
Forest Grove, OR 97116
(50~) 357-6151
ext. 2396
and
Lisa Cornick
Foreign Langs. Dept.
Old Dominion Univ.
Norfolk, VA 23508
(804) 440- 3960 or 3973
-24NEW GERMAN REVIEW. A Journal of German StudieD.
Submissions (articles and book reviews) invited that deal with all fields of Germanic
Languages and Literatures for the fourth edition of NGR to appear Fall 1988.
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Women's Studies Section. Midwest Modern Language Association. Nov. 3-5. 1988. St. Louis
Topic: The Politics of Mentoring: Unspoken Assumptions and Hidden Conflicts.
Send propsals or papers by April 15 to Ellen Berry, Dept. of English, Bowling Green State
University. Bowling Green. Ohio 43403.
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Women. the Arts and Society Conference. Nov. 3-5, Susquehanna University, Selingrove. PA
Featured speakers: Judy Chicago. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. For more information
contact Barbara Bramer. English Dept .• Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA 17870,
tel. (717) 372-4196.
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Feminist/Comparative Criticism. for an anthology of papers that reassess our critical
categories from both perspectives. How has a feministtheory challenged theories of
narrative voice and structure? How does the comparative study of literature in its legal
and economic contexts affect our understanding of novels of female development? How do
different literary traditions determine the forms of women writers' rebellion?
Send papers or inquiries to: Margaret Higonnet, Dept. of English, University of Conn./Storrs,
Storris, CT 06268
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Call for Submissions
For an anthology on women's writings on the Nazi era: thematic
treatments of one or more works, essays on individual authors,
discussions of different genres (fiction, diaries, poetry, drama,
memoirs, etc.), and essays representing non-German -women's voices
as well as German. Send draft proposal or completed essay plus a
current cv by June 15, 1988 to: Elaine Martin
Dept. of German & Russian
University of Alabama
P.O. Box 1987
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
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AATG MONTEREY NOVEMBER 1988
WiG Session: Women's Diaries
For centuries women have used diaries to record what they have been
unable or unwilling to articulate elsewhere. Ye~ theoris~s of the Ta~e~uch
have ignored their writings •. We are interested 1n explOr1ng,the tradltlon of
-private- writings by German women and invite submissions WhlCh focus on the
journals themselves or on the link between gender and genre. Please send
proposals or papers (papers preferred) by Ju~e 15, 1988,to both:
Sara Friedrichsmeyer
Ed1th Waldsteln
Foreign Language Department
14 N-234
University of Cincinnati
and
MIT
Raymond Walters college
Cambridge, MA 02139
Cincinnati, Ohio 45236
Office: (513) 745-5679
Home:
(513) 931-5843
Office: (617) 253-4771
Horne:
(617) 253-5008
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WIG CONFERENCE MINNEAPOLIS 1988
We are inviting suggestions for the opening session of the WiG
conference in 1988, entitled -Strategies for Coping.- The problem areas are:
rape, courseload, departmental responsibility, work/home, professional/
personal, sexual harassment, workoholism. Proposed strategies are Alanon,
dissertation support systems, exercise, positive thinking, meditation .••
Send us a paragraph on the above or on any other problem areas and
coping strategies that we may not have thought of. Deadline: March 15.
Sue Bottigheimer
61 Cedar St.
Stony Brook, N.Y. 11790
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WIG CONFERENCE 1988
Session: All Things Considered: Resources
This resources session will be organized informally. Each person on tr:
panel will make short (ca. 5 minute) presentations about his/her area of
expertise. After these statements, we will break into groups where the
resource people can address individual concerns. Issues addressed will
include: preparing for oral examinations; how to write letters or recommendation, support, outrage, etc.; high-sc~ool participation and representation
in the profession; issues related to adjunct faculty and part-time status;
political activism; tenure file preparation; applying for jobs; grant writin~,
getting published.
If you are interested in participating as a panel member in this
session, please write us a short paragraph about what you would like to do by
July 1, 1988. Send this to both:
Edi th ~laldstein
Magda Muller
14 N-234
Department of Germanic Languages
MIT
319 Hamilton Hall
Cambridge, MA 02139
New York, N.Y. 10027
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At the WIG meeting in Portland. Oregon I announced the upcoming visit of
Saliha Scheinhardt. the Turkish writer who was until recently "Schriftstellerin
im BUcherturm" of the city of Offenbach. Several of you had expressed interest
in having Saliha come to your campus for a reading. lecture. or some classroom
presentation. I should like to a~d here that she has a good command of English.
While I was in the FRG over the January break. I talked to Saliha, and she had
lots of good news to report. Her fourth book, Trane fur Trane werde ich heimzahlen. Kindheit in Anatolien, published by Rowohlt Verlag this past fall
will come out in a second edition since the 9000 copies of the first edition
have already been sold. Another book, Von der Erde bis zum Himmel Liebe-a book about torture in Turkey -- is scheduled to appear in March.' Needless
to say, Saliha is very much in demand for readings right now in fact she is
booked up until Hay. and therefore had to postpone her US v1~it until'September.
We thought that September would actua}ly be a good month; all of us will be well
i~to the Fall semester by then. and would welcome a visiting writer.
Saliha has
'set aside the whole month of September for her US visit, and is looking forward
to hearing from you directly, or you can contact me. I will be the coordinator
for her trip. If you have questions. or if you would like to receive more
information on Saliha Scheinhardt and her work, please write to me. or call.
Here are our addresses:
Dr. Saliha Scheinhardt
Eberhard-von-Rochow-Strasse 9
6050 Offenbach
FRG
Tel. (069) 833 177
Dr. Hannelore Heckmann
Department of Languages
Independence Hall
The University of Rhode Island
Kingston. RI 02881-0812
Tel. (401) 792-4696 (office)
(401) 364-3602 (home)
Q~§_E§m!D!§t!§£b§_e~£b!~_YDd_QQkYm§Dt~t!QD§~§Dt~Ym hat zum 1.3.1988
seine Zelte in Frankfurt abgebrochen und wird sich in Kiln niederlassen.
Oiese Entscheidung zog eine lebhafte Oebatte nach sich, denn sie wurde
yom letzten Vorstand (Alice Schwarzer, Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen,
Christa Reinig) uber die Kopfe der neun Mitarbeiterinnen hinweg und
hinter verschlossenen Turen gefallt.
Dorothea Vorbeck (SPO) , Mitglied des aktuellen Voratandes, begrundet den
Standortwechsel folgendermaf3en: "Das Archiv hat es nicht geschafft,
Anslo~e fur die feministische Forschung zu geben, die zur Zeit nicht so
loll drauf isla Oas wird sich dadurch verbessern, daB Alice Schwarzer
sich in Koln taglich darum kummern kann".
Kommenlar der Betroffenen, die nun zwischen Umzug oder Arbeilslosigkeit
wahlen mussen: "Machlverhaltnisse sind in diesem Vorgehen zum Tragen
gekommen, wie sie .jedem Verslandnis emanzipierler und feminislischer
Arbeilsformen Hohn srechen".
Ihre Emporung teilen zahlreiche Frauengruppen und namhafte
Wi.senschaftlerinnen, u.a. Silvia Bovenschen, ute Gerhard-Teuscher. Alice
Schwarzer wird Schalten und Walten nach eigenem Gutdunken vorgeworfen.
Die Konlroverse wirfl Fragen nach der praktischen Umselzung
demokralis~hen Gedankenguls auf sowie nach feministischer Effeklivilal
und Seleklivilill, denn es ging nichl zulelzl darum, was frau fur
erforschenswerl hall. Angesichls mangelnder schweslerlichr Solidarilal
fr~ul sich das Palriarchal ganz ungenierl in der F.A.Z.:
"Bei Milnnern
lisen MiBslande, von Frauen verursachl, ein schadenfrohes Grinsen aus:
also doch, kein bil3chen andere. als wir, wenn man sie nur machen laI3l".
-27ANNOUNCEMENT: .. ESSAY AWARD·
t!~112!
I would like to ask for help of all Wig- members in discovering the works
(fiction, poetry, drama) with an ugly or plain woman as major focus. I am
investigating this motiv in literature written by both men and women from
the Middle Ages to the present in terms of such categories as auctorial
strategies, aesthetic taboos, the interplay between cultural
contexts/restraints and artistic imagination. Pleas mail any suggestion
to: Linda Kraus Worley, Department of Germanics, P.D.T. 1037, University
of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 Thanks! Linda
e!:!!J.Q'=!n£~!!l~ni§ :
Wig members are invited to send in suggestions (brief descriptive
bio-bibliographical statement) about women you would like to have as the
Guest at the 1989 Wig Conference, Please notify us by August 1st in time
for the summer newsletter.
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Contributions to numerous journals, including "Deutsche Zeilschrift fur
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Universily Press of America, Lanham/New York/ London 1986,pp. 81-92.
Contact Possibilily: c/o Christiane Zehl-Romero, German Dept.,Tufts
University, Medforl, MA 02155.
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ZUR AUSSTELLUNG
-29Representationa of Women during Berlin'. 750tb AnniYenerg in 1987
-Keio Ort nirgends? 200 Jahre Frauenbeyegun41 uod Frauengeschichte in
Berlin- 'w'hich ran from September 22nd to November 22nd, 1987 'Was the only exhibit for
West Berli n's 750th anniversary celebration to cover 'w'omen's history ina detailed manner.
T.....o major exhi bits for the 750th anniversary celebration typify the other major exhi bits in
their insufficient portrayal of 'w'omen. These t'Wo sho'Ws alone cost 27 million OM. The
-Berli n- Berli n- exhi bit costi ng 22 million DM 'Was the largest of the sho'w's prepared for the
anniversary celebration. It i ncl uded onl y a cursory mention of such important 'Women as Rahel
levy- Varnhaoen or Betti ne von Arni m'w'ithout thematizi no 'Women's social spheres or ho'w'
'WOmen interacted 'w'ith men's social spheres. Eberhard Knoedler- Bunte and others from the
magazine Aesthetik und Kommunikation constructed the -Mtjthos Berlin- exhibit 'w'ith 5
million DM of support from the Berli n Senate. They mar~eted a postmodern vie'w'of the city
through a collection of i n3ta11ations evoki og different popular and sometimes contrived cultural
images of Berlin. The exhibit presented three images of'w'omen in Berlin's history. Atwo story,
free-standi ng pi nk leg structure in the entrance way of the exhi bition area was a representation
of Marlene Dietrich in the movie "Blue Angel: In aoother section "TrUmmerfrauen" could be
seen clearing a'w'ay the rubble of bombed Berlin after World War II. Still another section
presented the socialist politics and recalled the murder of Rosa luxembourg during the Weimar
Republic along with the 1980's attempts to name a bridge after her in Tiergarten Par~ in the
Center of West Berlin. These three images offered no new information about women's history in
Berli n. "Mythos Berli n" and "Berli n- Berli n showed the necessity of designati ng funds
explicHly for 'w'or~ on 'w'omen's history for it to be researched at all and made aesthetically
8CCessi ble to a broader public.
The twent\) woman collective Berliner fraueoKuUurlnitiative created "Kein Ort
nirgends?" 'w'ith 500,000 OM of Senate support. Thei r fi nal advertisi ng poster showed the
Berli n woman who was the fi rst person to ever tightrope across the Niagara Falb to poi nt to
their financial balanci ng act. lac~i ng funds for 8 comprehensive chronology of women's history
in Berlin since the French Revolution, BFKI selected eight Key issues concerning the women's
movement for installations. Atree was constructed, for example, in the fi rst floor space as a
thousand year old genderless i mage of 'w'omen. Deseri ptions and i mages of 'vIomen restricted by
gender defi nitions labeli ng them as the "other," "weaK" or £IS "das schoene Geschlecht"
surrounded the tree. The installation on politics and poyer utilized a voice tunnel in which
you could hear women's protest speeches from the Vormaerz to the present. The autonomlj
group projected slides of everyday and spectacular acts of independence onto a screen used as the
pupil in 8 large eye. The i mages reflected personal gro'Wth or sho'w' women such as Gertrude
Seele who hid raciall y pursued Germans in Berli n from the Nazis. for the topic of motheri n41
the meeti ng room of the lyceum Cl ub, a Berli n women's organization from 1908, 'vias
reconstructed to shOW' nurturi ng £IS a social activity in which 'vIomen structure thei r own places
for work, discussion and relaxahon j n the public sphere. The group on knoYledge created 8
t'w'O meter high and four meter 'w'ide fan ("faecher") out of perforated metal resting in 8 one
meter high hand out of metal pi pi n9 to symbolize the different subjects ("faecher") in which
'w'omen made significant intellectual contri butions. Attached to the fan 'Were biographies of
Berlin 'w'omen such as the first female judge in Berlin, Marie MunK. "Kein art nirgends?" also
included installations on the fight for ney sexuil morals, yomen and their unpaid
vort in the home and finally yomen in East Berlin. The catalog from the exhibit is
available for 25 OM through Orlanda Frauenverla9, PohhtraBe 64, 1000 Berlin 30. (ISBN
3- 922166- 35- 0) The exhibit and catalog "Kei n art nirgends? 200 Jahre Frauenleben und
Freuenbe'w'egung in Berlin" both reflect the state of the women's movement in Berlin todalJ:
Multi pIe centers of focus and activity ma~e for chaos but also allo'w' .....omen to ta~e charge of
M
(fTI&ny imilqes 'Which repre3ent) their roles in h13tory.
Karen H. Janko'w'sky
University of Wisconsi n- Madison
-30Independent Scholars' Association
For a number of years there has existed various groups of scholars, primarily women,
without any university affiliatio~. A newsletter was started several months ago in
the hope of bringing together these various groups spread throughout the U.S.
The Independent Scholars' Association in North Carolina has at the moment 41 members,
including scholars in the diverse fields of Literature, Computer Science, Urban
Planning and Theology. Not all members have a Masters or a Doctorate, and the only
requirement for membership is a minimal annual dues. A sub-group in Women's Studies
in North Carolina initiated an interdisciplinary project on "Women and War".
The question for the future is whether Independent Scholars will remain a contact
group for scholars unaffiliated with the academy, or if it will expand to also
publish scholarly writing that could never appear within the confines of the
university system. Unfortunately, most of the groups suffer severe financial
constraints, and the question arises whether those groups with a nominal
university affiliation might have the best chance in the future. For more
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BOOI\ RE:\JIE:W)
Elisabeth Flitner, Renate Valtin, eds. Dritte im Bund: Die Geliebte
(Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1987). 330 pp. 14,80 DM.
Mit diesem rororo-Sachbuch legen die Herausgeberinnen eine Sammlung von
Beitragen vor, in der Vertreter(inn)en diverser Fachrichtungen sich in
sehr unterschiedlicher Schwerpunktsetzung und Herangehensweise mit dem
Thema 'Geliebte' befassen. Gleich mehrere deutschsprachige
Zeitschriften, allen voran der Marktfuhrer Stern, hatten im Fruhjahr
1987 dieses Thema aufgegriffen, in Fortsetzungserien breitgtreten und
publikumswirksam mit Leserinnenzuschriften und ihren authentischen
Berichten uber eine relativ lange zeit in Gang gehalten. Das
Lesepublikum zeigte Interesse an dieser offentlichen Diskussion,
sicherlich auch deshalb, weil das uralte Thema in letzter zeit
Variationen erfahrt: die Geliebte ist nicht mehr in allen Fallen die
ungluckliche alleinstehende Frau, die einen verheirateten Mann liebt,
sondern z.B. auch die Frau, die sich fur diese Art von Beziehung
entscheidet, weil sie sich so Freiraume und Autonomie erhalt, die die
Ehe oder das Zusammenleben in eheahnlichen Verhaltnissen nicht mehr
zulassen; oder die Geliebte kann auch diejenige sein, die mehrere
Beziehungen gleichzeitig fuhrt - laut Stern: wFrauen, die einen 'Harem'
haben w• Der Zeitschriftenwelle werden als nachstes mit Sicherheit die
Bucher zum Thema folgen, wie die Herausgeberinnen des vorliegenden
Bandes im Vorwort schreiben, und in sehr kurzer zeit haben sie nun das
erste zusammengestellt, das wdie Hintergrunde, die sozialen und
psychischen Bedingungen auaerehelicher Liebesverhaltnisse und die
Kultur, die sie umgibt W (9) untersucht. Vielfaltige Aspekte werden
behandelt: Vera Slupik schreibt uber die rechtliche Situation der
Geliebten in dem Aufsatz wHenriette Hubsch und Ignaz Igel W, Elga sorge
uber wGeliebte oder Liebende? Theologische Gedanken zur Befreiung vom
Geliebt-werden w, Mechthild Zeul bietet eine psychoanalytische Deutung
des Films wDie Geliebte des franzosischen Leutnants w• Eine
psychoanalytische Untersuchung zur Geliebten und dem Mann ihrer Wahl
legen Brigitte Weidenhammer und Siegfried Zepf in dem Aufsatz
·Grenzenlose Erfullung durch Unerfullbarkeit?W vor. Ihre
Ausgangsposition ist die, daa es naheliegt zu fragen, warum viele
Frauen dennoch in einer so unerfreulichen, so dauerhaft Versagung
bietenden Liebesbeziehung ausharren w (98) und prasentieren dann unter
Bezugnahme auf Freuds Dora und die Beziehung der Karoline von
Gunderrode zu Creuzer das Ergebnis, daB auf praodipaler Ebene storungen
in der Entwicklungsg3eschichte stattgefunden haben mussen. Denjenigen
Frauen, die forsch behaupten, nicht mehr als eine Wochenend -beziehung
zu wollen, wird vorgeworfen, eine Ideologie wscheinbarer
Unabhangigkeit, scheinbarer Wahlfreiheit W zu vertreten, die jedoch
tatsachlich wim Dienst einer ungelosten Bindung an eine allmachtige
Mutter W steht (110) - und daraus ist dann zu schlieBen: wAuf diesem
Hintergrund sind Liebesbeziehungen, die sich im Sinn dieser Haltung
deklarieren, zum Scheitern verurteilt. w (110). Nach diesen
kategorischen Aussagen konnte die Suche nach alternativen Lebensformen
im Grunde aufgegeben werden, nur ist es ja gerade ein Anliegen dieses
Buches Fragen nach Alternativen aufzuwerfen. So wird z.B. in dem
Gesprach mit der psychanalytikerin Luise Reddemann immer wieder
nachgehakt, ob die Moglichkeit fur ·Ein kleines Paradies zu dritt ••• •
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nicht doch bestehe. Reddemann halt es durchaus fur denkbar, wenn auch
die Durchsetzung fur sehr schwierig. Zu einem ahnlichen Ergebnis kommt
auch Anke Huper in ihrem Artikel "Alltag der Geliebten", der auf
Befragungen basiert, die sie mit 150 Frauen durchgefuhrt hat, die sich
als Geliebte bezeichneten. Huper beansprucht nicht, veraligemeinerbare
Ergebnisse liefern zu konnen, da ihre Untersuchungsgruppe eher zufallig
zustande gekommen und nicht reprasentativ sei. Dennoch verweist sie
auf erstaunlich viele Parallelen in den Einzelerfahrungen der Frauen in
bezug auf z.B. Selbstein-schatzung, soziale Isolation, Geheimhaltung.
Die Mehrheit der Frauen fuhlt sich in einem Teufelskreis befindlich,
nur wenige gehoren zu den 'glucklichen Geliebten'. (Laurel Richardson,
die mit ihrem Buch The New Other Woman. contemporary Single Women in
Affairs with Married Me~ (New York: The Free press, 1985) beansprucht,
die erste amerikanische sozialwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zu diesem
.Thema vorzulegen, kommt zu einem ahnlichen Ergebnis. Sie befregte
allerdings nur 55 Frauen, zu denen sich Kontakte auch eher zufallig
ergeben hatten. Nur die wenigsten finden zufriedenstellenden
Bedingungen in ihrem Geliebten-Dasein, ganz pragmatisch fugt Richardson
hinzu, daB sich an der Sachlage dennoch nichts andern wird, solage es
33 Millionen alleinstehende Frauen in den USA gibt - Heiratschancen von
Frauen 1986 so ausgiebig dikutiert wurde).
Aus dem Mangel an sozialwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen hat Renate
Valtin die Konsequenz gezogen, die Rolle der Geli~ten dort zu
analysieren, wo sie am haufigsten behandelt wird, namlich in
Zeitschriften und Illustrierten. Ihr Untertitel "Ein Lehrstuck aus dem
Patriarchat" gibt schon an, was sie dann materialreich belegt: die
Diskussion des Themas in den Massenmedien in ein "lehrreiches Exempel,
mit welchen Mitteln in unserer Gesellschaft patriarchalische Strukturen
immer wieder neu etabliert und verfestigt werden." (38) Wie sehr die
Geliebte Teil traditioneller gesellschaftlicher Strukturen ist, fuhrt
auch Elisabeth Flitner aus, die in ihrem Beitrag "Verliebt, verlobt,
verheiratet - und dann?", zunachst die Herausbildung der
Geschlechtscharaktere im Zuge der Industrialisation darstellt, urn dann
auf neueste Entwicklungen einzugehen, die aufgrund der kaum noch
vorhandenen okonomischen Abhangigkeiten neue Formen des Verhaltnisses
der Geschlechter ermoglichen, die jedoch kaum praktiziert werden. Wenn
auch auf der Oberflache groBere Toleranz gegenuber auserehelicher
Sexualitat festzustellen ist, so bleibt doch das klare Festhalten an
Monogamie, wobei das herkommliche Modell lebenslanger Bindungen durch
·serielle Monogamie" (31) abgelost wird. Flitner geht bei ihrer
Untersuchung der heutigen Situation weniger auf gesellschaft- liche
Bedingungen und mehr auf die psycho-soziale Disposition der Manner ein,
.die Rein groBeres emotionales Angewiesensein auf ihre Frau erleben als
umgekehrt." (26) Da die Familie ihnen aber nicht mehr alles das
bietet, was sie brauchen, sind sie quasi gezwungen, sich auBerhalb die
vermiBten Komponenten einzuholen. Es ist nicht klar, warum Mannern,
denen ihre Mannerrolle das Leben so schwer macht, hier so viel Raum
gegeben wird. Auch im Vorwort schreiben die Herausgeberinnen, daB sie
einen Beitrag uber den "Mann in der Mitte" einschlieBen wollten, aber
Schwierigkeiten bei der vergabe dieses Themas hatten •. Dieses Buch
zeichnet sich gerade dadurch aus, daB die Geliebte unter sehr
verschiedenen Aspekten untersucht wird und DenkanstoBe und Anregungen
•
-33zur weiteren Forschung gibt. Christi Wickert stellt vier
Parlamentarierinnen in der Weimarer Republik vor, denen ·Politik vor
·Privatleben· ging, die alleinstehend blieben und mit verheirateten
Kollegen Beziehungen fuhrten, in denen jedoch in allen Fallen die
gemeinsame politsche Arbeit, weitaus wichtiger erscheint als das
Private. Sara Lennox untersucht ·Traum und Wirklichkeit der Geliebten
in der Prosa von DDR-Autorinnen· in ihrem Beitrag ·SchattenriB eines
Liebhabers·. Angelehnt'an Irene Dollings These, daB sich
·Veranderungen in der Lebensweise und die Konflikte, die sich daraus
fur menschliche Beziehungen ergeben, oft schon in der Kunst ausdruckt,
bevor noch wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen sie belegen,· (283) kommt
Sara Lennox zu dem SchluB, daB die moderne Geliebte ·eine
Ungleichzeitigkeit oder ungleiche Entwicklung in verschiedenen
Lebensbereichen von Frauen in der DDR aufdeckt: Obwohl der offentliche
Bereich sich fur sie in vieler Hinsicht verandert hat, hinkt die
privatsphare dieser Entwicklung hinterher.· (228) Das nuchterne
Resultat, das sich aus der Untersuchung der zeitgenossischen Literatur
ergibt, ist, daB personliche Beziehungen nicht so gestalten werden
konnen, wie es die objektiven Voraussetzungen eigentlich erlauben. An
patriarchalischen Strukturen wird festgehalten, von Mannern und
Frauen.
Anna Maria Stuby befaBt sich ebenfalls mit der Geliebten als
literarischer TOpos: ·Und doch, welch Gluck, geliebt zu werden!· Sie
geht zunachst den Fragen nach, wie die Liebe als Passion in der
burgerlichen Gesellschaft neu bestimmt wurde, warum sich diese
Liebesidee nicht in die Praxis umwandelte und welchen Veranderungen die
Idee dann jeweils selbst unterworfen war. (309) Die Serie zur
Geliebten im Stern dient ihr als Hintergrund in dieser exzellenten
Studie, in der am Ende am Beispiel Alice Munros veranschaulicht wird,
·wie Begehren und Enttauschung der Geliebten aus einer weiblichen
Perspektive in zeitgenossischer Literatur gestaltet werden.· (306)
Weitere Beitrage dieses Bandes befassen sich mit der ·Bedeutung der
anderen fur die Ehefrau· (Hildegard Baumgart), -Die Geliebte als
magische Vervollstandigung· (Gunther Bittner) und der Geliebten in der
Kunst-geschichte, ·Die Geschopfe des Pygmalion· (Gisela Breitling) und es ist offensichtlich, daB das Thema zu weiteren Untersuchungen
anregt. Hier liegt zunachst eine recht bunt zusammengewurfelte
Aufsatz-Sammlung vor, der anzumerken ist, daB sie sehr schnell
entstanden ist. Dan Herausgeberinnen geht es offensichtlich darum, das
in den Massenmedien populare Thema nicht dort zu belassen, sondern
weitergehende untersuchungen zu initiieren, die auch immer die
Moglichkeit der Entwicklung alternativer Lebensformen einbegreifen
konnen. Die bisherigen Ergebnisse sind eher ernuchternd - doch die
klare Benennung der derzeitigen Bedingungen wird zumindestens
DenkanstoB sein.
Heidrun Suhr, University of Minnesota
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The Germanic Review, Special Issue: Women in Exile. (Summer 1987) vol. LXI. n03
This special issue of The Germanic Review, "Women in Exile". is the first in a series
planned on topics that" challenge assumptions about the production and reception of
literature in the German-speaking countries." The editors aim. with this issue. to
discuss the specific situation of women artists in exile. to "challenge assumptions about
the role of women exiles in cultural and political circles" and to "redress the unequal
evaluation of several women exile writers whose reputations have been eclipsed by
those of their male counterparts." The editors seek to reverse the oblivion that
characterizes many women exile writers despite the large body of critical material on
exile literature and on women's issues. In her thought-provoking introductory
editorial. Shelley Frisch notes how often women are simply missing from critical
discourse on exile literature. and how women artists well-known in their own time
have vanished into obscurity She argues very effectively that a reexamination of
women exile writers also demands a reevaluation of the canon of exile literature. from
which women artists have been excluded
Frisch also raises the interesting question of the role of political engagement in the
woman exile writer and the important question of the role of feminism in the exile
experience. She cites the need for further research to explore whether exile promoted
a heightened sense of feminist values and solidarity. and asks if the literature itself
demonstrates a "women's aesthetics literature of exile." While this issue successfully
addresses many important social. historical and literary questions about women in
exile. it seems a pity that three of the five articles are on women writers whose fate
was certainly not obscurity--Else Lasker-SchUler. Anna Seghers and Hilde Domin--but
rather critical recognition in the mainstream body of exile literature.
The editors' intent to extend their discussion to include not only writers but exile
artists is achieved in Helmut Pfanner and Gary Samson's article on the photographer
Lotte Jacobi. Pfanner and Samson present an interesting biographical summary of the
colorful life of Jacobi. sketching her career as a portrait photographer from the 1920s
(where she became known for her portraits of Heinrich Mann. Einstein. Kurt Weill and
Gerhart Hauptmann. to name just a few) to her subsequent success. aftel' fleeing Nazi
Germany in 1935. in London and New York. where she photographed noted exiles such
as Thomas Mann. Oskar Maria-Graf. Kurt Wolff and Marc Chagall. Although this all
makes for an interesting read. rarely does the article stray beyond the merely
biographical. Pfanner and Samson maintain. at the start of the article. that Jacobi as a
less "traditional" artist has not received the same attention as. say. exile writers As
such. their article performs the service of correcting what they perceive as an
imbalance. and is not entirely without merit
In "Abschied von Europa: Zu LUi Korbers ExU in Paris. Lyon und New York". Viktoria
Hertling examines the work of the novelist Korber Born in Moscow in 1897 to a Polish
mother and an Austrian father, Korber wrote "zeitgeschichtliche" 'documentary novels
and social-critical journalism before being forced to leave Austria in 1938 Hertling
suggests that Korber's experience in Paris and Lyon was less one of exile than of
"domicile". and she even wrote articles for French newspapers After her move to New
York in 19.. 1. Korber felt herself bereft of a German-speaking public. although she
continued to write and even completed several novels in English. her professional and
personal isolation in the U.S became the classic expression of exile. Herlling
documents the life and work of Korber and succeeds in portraying the political
enagement and the struggle of a woman exile.
Sonia Hedgepeth's essay "Betrachtungen einer Unpolitischen' Else' Lasker-Schuler
zu ihrem Leben im Exil" challenges the generally-held notion ofElse Lasker-SchUler as
an entirely apolitical writer Although Lasker-Schuler is nearly always included in
-35discussions of German exile literature. Hedgepeth claims that her life and work have up
to now never been taken seriously as a legitimate "Forschungsgegenstand " She
examines the supposedly apolitical nature of Lasker-Schuler and questions the extent to
which this is really the case While she guards against the absurdity of claiming
Lasker-Schuler as a political poet. she nonetheless tries to qualify her unchallengned
status as an entirely "weltfremde Dichterin" by examining her autobiographical
statements in letters written from Zurich and Jerusalem. Hedgepeth raises the
interesting problem of political engagement in the woman exile writer and asks
important questions on how we are to evaluate the specific exile experience of LaskerSchuler
The two essays on Hilde Domin and Anna Seghers discuss the problems of
repatriation Alexander Stephan explores Seghers' unusual productivity during her
exile years and her ability to see beyond Hitler's Germany to a vision of a "zukunftigen
deutschen Leser" Stephan discusses Segher's reception in the DDR after her return,
and points to the problematic role she served as a writer in a Socialist state. GuyStern's
treatment of the theme of return in the works of Domin points to the very problematic
"optimism" of Domin's return to her "imperfectly restored Eden". her panegyrics on
her "Heimat" and her apparent ability/need to relativize the horrors of the Third
Reich. Stern very judiciously suggests that Domin's return is perhaps less to her "Land"
than to her language. as she herself asserts in an autobiographical fragment. Domin's
bizarre and at times apparent unquestioning conciliation with Germany is often
attributed to her "highly individualistic personality". Equally problematic, and only
hinted at in this essay. is Domin's anti-feminism, yet another supposedly idiosyncratic
quirk that. in this case, refuses to accord the struggle of feminism and the question of a
female aesthetic a legitimate place. Domin is a woman writer who vehemently denies
the existence of "Frauenliteratur", much in the same way she asserts her belief in the
inherent "goodness" of her beloved homeland and denies any conflict in returning to
Germany Whatever the case. the question remains whether Domin, who repeatedly
claims that gender is a superfluous category within critical discourse. should be
included in a volume that specifically seeks to address the role of the woman writer in
exile.
The issue concludes with a substantial book review on the work of Elisabeth
freundlich, which has recently been published by the one-woman Persona Verlag in
Mannheim and which could certainly benefit from a lengthier discussion. Our thanks
should go to the editors of The Germanic Review for undertaking to bring together two
strains of critical discourse--the literature of exile and women's issues--that have
traditionally been kept separate. Other special issues now in preparation include
Literary CensorShip in the Four German-Speaking Countries Today. Children's
Literature in East and West, and Literature of the Adenauer Era.
Leslie Morris
University of Massachusetts/ Amherst
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Wolf, Christa: Die Dimension des Autors. Essays und
AufsaUe, Reden und Gesprache. Luchterhand Darm.
stadt und Neuwied 1987
Aile, Margaret: Hypatias TOChter. Der yerleugnete An.
teil der Frauen an der NaturwissenSchalt. Unionsverlag,
255 S.
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Bendkowsld, Halina/Rotalsky, Irene (Hg.): Die allt:lgliche
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Berlin 1987
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der Moderne. Ansatze feministischer Vernunftkritik.
edition diskord 1987. 272 S.
DOlmen, Richard von (Hg.): Hexenwelten. Magie und
Imagination vom 16. bis 20. Jahrhundert. Fischer
Frankfurt 1987, 436 S.
Ebbinghaus, Angellka (Hg.): Opfer und Taterinnen.
Frauenbiographien des Nationalsozialismus. Greno 1987
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Fox Koller, E.: Liebe, Macht und ErkenntnlS. Manni iChe
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IIchkeit. Entwurf einer nicht-patriarchalen KultursoZIQ.
logie. Verlag Westf41isches Dampfboot. 1987
Hohmann, Marianne: Gleichberechtigung? Denkste!
Frauenliteraturvertrleb Anke Schafer Wiesbaden 1987
Mitchell, Juliet: Frauen· die langste Revolution. Fe.
minismus, Literatur. PSYChoanalyse. Fischer Frankfurt.
1987.
Neve-Herz, Rosemarie: Die Geschichte der Frauenbe.
wegung In Deutschland vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts
bls heute. Lizensausgabe fur die Landeszentrale rur
pol, Bildung In NRW.
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betrachtet wlrd es finster. Frauensichten. Athenaum
Verlag Frankfurt 1987
Schenk, Hened: Frele Liebe - wilde Ehe. Uber die all.
mlhliche Auflosung der Ehe durch die Liebe. BeCk
MOOChen 1987
Thewelelt, Klaus: Ouch der KOnige Bd.1
Stern 1987
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Malerin Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938). Aus wohlhabender Familie stammend,
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Rosa Mayreders Werke, ihr politische Engagement wie auch ihre Einstellung
zum Ersten Weltkrieg und zur Frauenfriedensbewegung werden neu beleuchtet,
und viele mit ihr befreundete Vertreter des damaJigen geistigen Lebens erscheinen in einem anderen Licht: Alfred Adler, Felix Braun, Auguste Fickert, Sigmund Freud, Rudolf Goldscheid, Rudolf Steiner, Hugo Wolf u.a. Zuglcich bieten die Tagebiicher ein kulturgeschichtliches Panorama der ereignisreichen Zeit
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Die Hcrausgeberin, Harriet Anderson, studierte Germanistik und Philosophie
in Cambridge (England), Freiburg i.Br. und London. Sie hat als Lektorin an den
Universitaten Koln, Graz und Wien gewirkt und arbeitet derzeit an einer umfassenden Studie zum Feminismus im Wiener Fin de siecle.
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La Roche, Sophie von: Pomona fOr Teutschlands TOChter.
Reprint der Ausgabe Speier 1763-1764. 4 Bande
Saur MOnchen 1967
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Neue Literatur von Frauen. Langenscheldt Munchen
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Mecklenburg, Norbert: Die Grlinen Inseln. Zur Kritik
des literarischen Heimatkomple~. iUdicum Verlag
Munchen 1967, 327 S.
Berger, Renate (Hg.): OlUnd ich sehe nichts, nichts als
die Malerel". Autobiographlsche Texte von Kunstleronnen
des 18. -20. Jahrhunderts. Fischer Frankfurt 1987
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