Gerlind Reinshagen

Scenic reading and discussion with Helmut Böttiger and Annette Bühler-Dietrich
Gerlind Reinshagen (1926-2019) was one of the few female playwrights who enjoyed success in Germany and internationally from the 1970s onwards. Her plays received great acclaim under Claus Peymann at Schauspiel Stuttgart; until the end of her life, she published plays, prose texts and finally a volume of poetry with Suhrkamp Verlag. Ghosts populate Reinshagen's writing in drama and prose. Figures from literature such as Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Robert Walser and Dylan Thomas haunt the protagonists, making themselves audible as voices that bring the repressed to light and reveal fragments of utopia. Even where Reinshagen deals with her own wartime childhood, it is the friends of the past who haunt the writing narrator. Axel Brauch, Beat Dietrich and Jule Hölzgen will make these voices heard in Stuttgart. Author, literary critic and expert on German-language post-war literature Helmut Böttiger and literary scholar and translator Annette Bühler-Dietrich will discuss the author.

Sponsored by the state capital Stuttgart, in cooperation with the Institute for Literary Studies in Modern German Literature at the University of Stuttgart.