Speaking in tongues Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Article on the question how to speak in a language that is not one's own, in selected texts by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Yoko Tawada and Ernst Jandl.
This article presents three distinct examples of Viennese theatre's engagement with recent waves of migration and refuge-seeking: the collective Wiener Wortstaetten offers migrants and refugees a platform on which to present themselves as the authors of their own stories; Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen, a rewriting of Aeschylus's The Suppliants, was inspired by the eviction of refugees from the Votivkirche in Vienna; and the artistic ...