Marieluise Fleißer (1901-1974) was a playwright and author associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit movement. She rose to fame in the late 1920s. Her plays often reflect on unequal power relationships in the lives and erotic relationships between young men and women, center lower and lower-middle class characters, and feature regional dialects while playing out in small-town, conservative Germany. After falling into obscurity after 1933 with the rise of Nazism, a new generation of dramaturges rediscovered her in the 1970s, leading to a renewed acknowledgment of her as a major figure of Weimar literature and culture.
Lessons on Fleißer’s Work
- Fleißer, Ein Pfund Orangen, 1929
- Fleißer, “Jahrhundert – gedrittelt,” 1933
- Fleißer, “Das dramatische Empfinden bei den Frauen,” 1930
Lessons from Related Themes
- Ein Virus kennt keine Moral Module, 1993
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner, “Die Kindermörderin,” 1775
- Friedrich Wolf, “Cyankali,” 1929 (Part 2)
- Friedrich Wolf, “Cyankali” 1929 (Part 1)
- Ulrike Ottinger, an Introduction to her Art
- Ulrike Ottinger, “Bildnis einer Trinkerin,” 1979
- Selimović and Ronen, Roma Armee, 2017
- Nura, “Fair,” 2021
