Illness or Modern Women

Illness or Modern Women (German: Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen. Wie ein Stück.) is a play by the Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek. It was published in 1984 in the avant-garde journal manuscripte of Graz and premiered on the stage of the Schauspielhaus Bonn on February 12, 1987, directed by Hans Hollmann.[1] The play was published in book form by Prometh Verlag in 1987 with an afterword by Regine Friedrich. The title "parodically conflates women with illness."[2] The play is based on an earlier, shorter radio play by Jelinek called Erziehung eines Vampirs (Bringing Up a Vampire), which appeared in 1986 on Süddeutscher Rundfunk.[3][4]

  1. ^ Kraft, Helga (10 February 2006), Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen. Wie ein Stück, The Literary Encyclopedia, retrieved 8 January 2016
  2. ^ Dawson, Leanne (2010). The Transe Femme in Elfriede Jelinek's Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen. Vol. 5. pp. 109–23. ISBN 9783866283510. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Levin, Tobe (1991). "Jelinek's radical radio: Deconstructing the woman in context". Women's Studies International Forum. 14 (1–2): 85–97. doi:10.1016/0277-5395(91)90086-W.
  4. ^ Österreichische Mediathek (24 April 1987). "Erziehung eines Vampirs". Welt der Literatur (in German). Vienna. 59:57 minutes in. ORF Radio Österreich 1.