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Jelinek, Elfriede (born 1946)
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In 2004 she was the first female Austrian author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature „for the musical stream of voices and counter-voices in her novels and dramas, which, with their unique linguistic passion, reveal the absurdity and the forcing power of social stereotypes”.
For years there has been a strong dispute between those who felt provoked by her texts and public performances or aggressiveness and those who celebrate her as a linguistic artist. She writes in agony and she writes against the deplorable state of public, political or private affairs in Austria as Thomas Bernhard has done. She has a sarcastic, provocative style which is called obscene, blasphemous, and vulgar or gloating by her opponents (she has been accused of running down her own country).
She had her breakthrough in literature in 1975 with her novel „Die Liebhaberinnen“, a marxist-feminist caricature of novels set in a regional background. Afterwards she wrote the dramas “Burgtheater” and “Lust” and the novel “Die Klavierspielerin”, which has been turned into the movie The Piano Teacher by the Austrian director Haneke.
The return to the Burgtheater takes six hours: in1998 Einar Schleef staged the play „Sportstück“. In 2003 Christoph Schlingensief staged Jelinek’s „Bambiland“ at the Burgtheater. Olga Neuwirth’s theatre play „Lost Highway“ whose libretto had been written by Elfriede Jelinek had its premiere in the same year.
For years there has been a strong dispute between those who felt provoked by her texts and public performances or aggressiveness and those who celebrate her as a linguistic artist. She writes in agony and she writes against the deplorable state of public, political or private affairs in Austria as Thomas Bernhard has done. She has a sarcastic, provocative style which is called obscene, blasphemous, and vulgar or gloating by her opponents (she has been accused of running down her own country).
She had her breakthrough in literature in 1975 with her novel „Die Liebhaberinnen“, a marxist-feminist caricature of novels set in a regional background. Afterwards she wrote the dramas “Burgtheater” and “Lust” and the novel “Die Klavierspielerin”, which has been turned into the movie The Piano Teacher by the Austrian director Haneke.
The return to the Burgtheater takes six hours: in1998 Einar Schleef staged the play „Sportstück“. In 2003 Christoph Schlingensief staged Jelinek’s „Bambiland“ at the Burgtheater. Olga Neuwirth’s theatre play „Lost Highway“ whose libretto had been written by Elfriede Jelinek had its premiere in the same year.
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