All the Rage

Barbara Kosta, PhD from UC, Berkeley, is Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on gender and ethnicity in twentieth and twenty-first century German-speaking literature, film and visual culture with publications on autobiographical writing, the 1920s modern woman, and women writers. Kosta is the recipient of Fulbright and DAAD awards.Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger is Professor emerita of German, founder of the Max-Kade-Center at Lafayette College and member of the Jelinek-Forschungszentrum.  Publications include Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity (2007), PASSAGES: Borders-Crossing-Openings. Conversations with Austrian Writers (2021), “Die Jelinek-Literatur und das angloamerikanische Publikum” (2024).

• Acknowledgments Introduction Barbara Kosta and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger PART I: JELINEK STAGED Elfriede Jelinek and the Possibilities for an American Postdramatic Theater Jennifer Marston William Elfriede Jelinek on Stage: The Jelinek/Stemann Tandem Piet Defraeye Elfriede Jelinek and the Art of Silence. A Conversation with Actress Sylvie Rohrer Bernhard Doppler and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger Elfriede Jelinek’s Theater for the Ear. Silent Murmurs Teresa Kovacs Cassandra’s Prophecies. Myths and Right-Wing Populism in Elfriede Jelinekʼs Recent Theater Texts Artur Pełka PART II: JELINEK’S INTERMEDIAL AND INTERTEXTUAL TAPISTRIES Desire Without Fantasy: Austria and America in David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997) and Elfriede Jelinek and Olga Neuwirth’s Opera Adaptation (2003) Jack Davis Elfriede Jelinek and Nicolas Mahler: Der fremde! störenfried der ruhe eines sommerabends de ruhe eines friedhofs (2018). The Stranger as Vampire—A Slapstick Play of the Mind Helga W. Kraft Intermediality as Communicative Strategy in Elfriede Jelinek’s Bambiland (2003) Britta Kallin Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013, Charges (The Supplicants), 2016) and the Power of her Homepage Images Barbara Kosta Elfriede Jelinek’s Exile: Considering the Refugee Experience In and Out of Austria Anna C. Souchuk PART III: JELINEK TRANSLATED Elfriede Jelinek’s “Atonal Grammar”: Gitta Honegger in Conversation Barbara Kosta and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger On Gitta Honegger’s Translation On the Royal Road. The Burgher King of Elfriede Jelinek’s Am Königsweg (2017) Susanne Teutsch Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013) as Mentor Text for the Creative Writing Project “Voices: Die Schutzsuchenden” Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger and Nika Judith Pfeifer Contributors Index