Title Participants Abstract "Review of ""Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori"", eds. Martin Kagel and David Z. Saltz" "Inge Arteel" "Book review of an edited volume on the playwright George Tabori." "What is “Rural Feminism”? A computer-assisted analysis of popular antifeminist discourses in Chinese social media" "Wei Yang, Jingxuan Guo, Inge Arteel" "Along with the popularization of feminism in Chinese social media, an antifeminist wave has become increasingly prominent since 2014, marked most notably by the stigmatization buzzword “rural feminism.” We collected 2,104 texts regarding “rural feminism” on Zhihu (the Chinese Quora) and applied approaches of computer-assisted discourse studies (i.e., topic modeling, collocation, and concordance analyses) as lenses to help us understand the connections and patterns within these fragmented social media texts, to uncover hidden antifeminist strategies. The findings reveal that popular antifeminism adopts strategies that we defined as “double embrace” and “double rejection” to minimize the realistic threat of feminism to men’s vested interests. These deliberate strategies hint at and further exacerbate the complex interplay between current Chinese antifeminism and feminism. On this basis, we argue that the previous framework of understanding this relationship as a simple dichotomy no longer applies and that we need to reconceptualize the current challenges and threats to Chinese feminism in the context of the specific history and reality of Chinese society and the rich interactions between antifeminism and misogyny, neoliberalism, postfeminism, and various versions of feminism active in China." "Campus Fictions" "Janna Aerts, Inge Arteel, Janine Hauthal" "Constellations of Voicing and Apostrophe in Mayröcker's Poetry" "Inge Arteel" "This chapter deals with structures, gestures and metaphors of communication in Mayröcker's poetry. Based on literary criticism on the lyrical, this chapter considers a selection of poems in which lyrical constellations of voicing and apostrophe play an important role. It shows how Mayröcker's poetry displays an existential concern with opening a channel of phatic communication." "Hybrid Hydra-Heads" "Inge Arteel, Jeroen Dera" "In this chapter we present Friederike Mayröcker and Lucienne Stassaert, both of whom are considered to be the main women writers with a distinct profile in their respective experimental contexts during the 1960s. This chapter wants to explore how, if at all, this shared exceptional gender related status is reflected in their self-positioning and poetics. What was their relationship with their respective male dominated artistic environments like? How did their artistic practice take shape? As we will show, both authors share(d) a preference for Einzelgängertum [going it alone] and volatility in their literary self-positioning, with a similar evolution towards less explicit experimentalism around 1970. Their concrete literary practice of the late 1960s, however, diverges greatly. Related though they are regarding their position in the literary field, their texts demonstrate that this does not lead up to a uniform gendered poetics. Biographically too, differences come to the fore, especially concerning the generations they belong to, as well as the national and institutional context they grew up in, as the following paragraphs will make clear." "Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Confrontation" "Inge Arteel, Lars Bernaerts" "Introduction to the edited volume, explaining the overall structure of the book and the rationale of the individual chapters, and indicating the contribution of the volume to both Dutch and German Studies." "Writing and environment in Friederike Mayröcker's poetry and prose, and in the photographic paratext" "Inge Arteel" "This chapter analyses the image of Mayröcker's authorship in a selection of pictures of her living environment, and also reads selected prose fragments and poems from an ecological perspective." "Radio, Play and World" "Inge Arteel" "This article considers the transmedial characteristics of the radio play ""First Night Closing Night"", the radiophonic adaptation by George Tabori and Jörg Jannings of a short story by Tabori about the rehearsals for a performance with a deadly outcome. The story addresses political, ethical and aesthetical issues: it considers the coerced collaboration of the narrator, a stagehand of the director, in the deadly staging of a theatre play. In comparison with the narrative structure of the prose text the article analyses several aspects of the multilayered acoustic presentation of this complex problem in the radio play, such as the pathos of the spoken voice and the rehearsal of a song as part of the soundscape. The article argues that the use of these specific radiophonic features both increases the complexity of the central issue – the complicity of the stagehand – and suggests a tentative form of resistance against the deadly perfection of the play." """Desperate Joy""" "Inge Arteel" "This article introduces the special issue of the journal Germanistische Mitteilungen on the work of George Tabori. The article gives an overview of his career and the existing research on his work" "Experimental Acoustic Life Writing" "Inge Arteel" "In this article I focus on a selection of radio plays by the Austrian author Gerhard Rühm and analyse them from the perspective of life writing, starting with Irene Kacandes’ findings on the increased referential effect of experimental life writing(2012). I want to extend the notion of experimental life writing to the medium of the experimental radio play and investigate whether and how the experiments with spoken language, voice, and musicalisation of language contribute to an effect of realness and create an aural world infused with lived experientiality. I’m particularly interested in the relationship between individualised, figurative voices and sounds, as they are to be expected in (auto)biographical art, and the defiguration and deindividualisation in the experimental, synthetic manipulation of human language and voice. Situating the corpus in the history of the German Neues Hörspiel,my analysis hopes to prove that the reality effect of the experimental (auto)biographical radio play does not, or at least not only, refer to an individual biographical self.Instead, the complex constellation of text and paratext, of scripted and spoken language, and of voice and music opens up the referential level for a broader, more general human experientiality. Most importantly, the technical possibilities of the radiophonic medium allow an intricate play with the semantics of referential language, with masking and unmasking voices, and with the exploration of the pathos of speaking together."