Frame and Preparation Die Kindermörderin Content warnings: violence, infanticide, sexual assault Conceptual Frames and Background Introduction Wagner’s play is based on the historical problematic during the 18th-century of the so-called ‘fallen women’ whose pregnancies outside of marriage, sometimes unwanted, would mean a dramatic loss of status if they were made known to the bourgeois or…
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Ören, “Was Will Niyazi in der Naunynstrasse?” 1973
Discuss the emergence of Turkish-German literature while reading Aras Ören’s breakthrough epic poem
Selimović and Ronen, Roma Armee, 2017
Discuss topics of identity, community formation, and transculturality that come up in the Gorki Theater’s 2017 play Roma Armee.
Fleißer, “Das dramatische Empfinden bei den Frauen,” 1930
Following figures of German theater, this discussion examines ideas and critiques of cultural expression through ideas of ‘gendered’ writing.