Elfriede Jelinek, Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stützen der Gesellschaften [What Happened after Nora Left Her Husband or, Pillars of Society]

Linda C. DeMeritt (Allegheny College)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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First circulation or publication 1978

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Austria (Country of Origin)

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Elfriede Jelinek’s first play,

Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte; oder Stützen der Gesellschaften

[

What Happened after Nora Left Her Husband; or Pillars of Society

] premiered October 1979 in Graz, Austria, with Kurt Josef Schildknecht as director. The Nobel Prize winning author’s theatrical debut has been largely neglected by critical circles and the media; yet it serves to introduce many of the themes and formal innovations that characterize the author’s entire literary

oeuvre

. The play challenges the optimistic confidence of the women’s movement gaining momentum during the late 1970s in West Germany and Austria. Jelinek borrows Henrik Ibsen’s main figure from

A Doll’s House

(1879) and traces Nora’s attempt at self-realization. However, where Ibsen’s…

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Citation: DeMeritt, Linda C.. "Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stützen der Gesellschaften". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 October 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16861, accessed 23 November 2024.]

Elfriede Jelinek, Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stützen der Gesellschaften [What Happened after Nora Left Her Husband or, Pillars of Society]

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