The Ingolstadt Plays
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The Ingolstadt Plays / Ingolstädter Stücke
»The greatest female playwright of the 20th century.« Elfriede Jelinek
Comprising the pieces »Purgatory in Ingolsatdt« and »Pioneers in Ingolstadt«, Marieluise Fleißer’s Ingolstadt plays, which caused an absolute scandal when they were first staged in the 1920s, feature smalltown folk whose double standards constrict every any and every process of emancipation like a corset made of custom, superstition and small-mindedness. And they vividly explore the themes that mattered so much to Fleißer: happiness, love, fearlessness, and clarity.
Comprising the pieces »Purgatory in Ingolsatdt« and »Pioneers in Ingolstadt«, Marieluise Fleißer’s Ingolstadt plays, which caused an absolute scandal when they were first staged in the 1920s, feature smalltown folk whose double standards constrict every any and every process of emancipation like a corset made of custom, superstition and small-mindedness. And they vividly explore the themes that mattered so much to Fleißer: happiness, love, fearlessness, and clarity.
2020, 144 pages
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Marieluise Fleißer
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Marieluise Fleißer was born in 1901 in Ingolstadt, where she died in 1974. The »greatest female playwright of the 20th century« (Elfriede Jelinek) was rediscovered – after earlier successes in the periphery of Bertolt Brecht – by young playwrights like Rainer Werner Faßbinder and Franz Xaver Kroetz in the 1960s. Subsequently, her plays were performed again, and at last a larger audience also got to see her as a narrator, although Walter Benjamin had already recognised Marieluise Fleißer's prose as an »art form of the first order« early on and Alfred Kerr had simply called her work »an asset«.
Marieluise Fleißer
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Marieluise Fleißer was born in 1901 in Ingolstadt, where she died in 1974. The »greatest female playwright of the 20th century«...
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