Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian Nobel Prize-winning playwright and novelist whose work attacks Austrian fascism, misogyny, and the aesthetics of violence with virtuosic linguistic aggression. Her plays are barely stageable in conventional terms; directors like Christoph Schlingensief turned them into theatrical events. She is one of the most discussed and divisive writers in the German language.
Works
- The Piano TeacherNovel about a piano teacher's repressed sexuality and violence in relationship
- Women as LoversFeminist novella examining women's economic and sexual dependence on men
- LustGraphic novel of middle-class wife's sexual awakening and marital breakdown
- Wonderful Wonderful TimesStories of Viennese youth in the 1950s exploring violence, sexuality, and class
- GreedPlay satirizing consumer capitalism and environmental destruction through dark comedy
- Sports PlayPlay about women's gymnastics team as metaphor for female domination and control
- BambilandPost-9/11 play about America's war on terror and geopolitical violence
- In den Alpen
- Ulrike Maria Stuart