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Lädt ... The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos (European Women Writers) (Original 1974; 2000. Auflage)von Irmtraud Morgner, Jeanette Clausen (Übersetzer), Jeanette Clausen (Einführung), Silke von der Emde (Einführung)
Werk-InformationenLeben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz von Irmtraud Morgner (Author) (1974) Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Beatrice de Dia, Provençal noblewoman and trobadora, is awakened from eight centuries of enchanted sleep by a highway construction project in 1968. Soon disenchanted with modern France, a land so unenlightened that it offers no career opportunities for a female troubadour, she makes her way to the GDR (East Germany), which she believes (and will never stop believing) is a socialist paradise for women. In (East) Berlin, she meets Laura Salman, a trolley driver and single mother who reluctantly agrees to fill the role of Beatrice's "minstrel." In addition to introducing a little magic into Laura's life, in the form of "the Beautiful Melusine," a wish-granting half-woman/half-dragon, Beatrice provides surprisingly reliable childcare. Nevertheless, before long Laura decides to get rid of the trobadora for a while, by sending her on a quest to capture a unicorn. This vastly entertaining "montage novel" includes, among many other things, scientific reports, quite a few chunks of a previously suppressed Morgner novel, and poetry in Morse code. This is (among many other things) a feminist novel that is truly important and truly hilarious. A glossary in this edition explains many of the acronyms, terms, dates and names unlikely to be familiar to an English-language audience. I have no doubt a great many other references went over my head, and I sometimes found myself wondering, in sections that were political/patriotic, if Morgner was being satirical, or sincere, or both. While reading, I kept thinking, "This book is amazing! I can't believe I never heard of it, or of Irmtraud Morgner!" Thus my first LibraryThing review: my tiny way of making sure other people hear about this amazing book and writer. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Ein Klassiker der Frauenliteratur Die Spielfrau Beatrix erwacht nach über achthundertjährigem Schlaf in unserer Gegenwart. In der Provence war sie im hohen Mittelalter eingeschlafen, jetzt bekommt sie es mit einer Welt zu tun, in der ihr Schloss einer Schnellstraße Platz machen soll. Sie bringt aber nicht nur diese Entscheidung ins Wanken, auch wie Männer und Frauen zusammenleben und worin das Wesen der Erotik gesehen wird, will ihr nicht einleuchten. Am besten, man würde noch einmal ganz von vorne beginnen ... Irmtraud Morgner wurde am 22. August 1933 in Chemnitz geboren, studierte Germanistik an der Universität Leipzig und arbeitete als Redaktionsassistentin bei der Zeitschrift 'Neue Deutsche Literatur'. Seit 1957 war sie freie Schriftstellerin. Die Autorin wurde mit vielen bedeutenden Preisen ausgezeichnet. Irmtraud Morgner starb am 6. Mai 1990.
Ein Klassiker der Frauenliteratur Die Spielfrau Beatrix erwacht nach über achthundertjährigem Schlaf in unserer Gegenwart. In der Provence war sie im hohen Mittelalter eingeschlafen, jetzt bekommt sie es mit einer Welt zu tun, in der ihr Schloss einer Schnellstraße Platz machen soll. Sie bringt aber nicht nur diese Entscheidung ins Wanken, auch wie Männer und Frauen zusammenleben und worin das Wesen der Erotik gesehen wird, will ihr nicht einleuchten. Am besten, man würde noch einmal ganz von vorne beginnen ... Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The central conceit is that the trobadora Beatriz, Comtessa de Dia, on realising that 12th century Provence was not yet ready for a woman who writes poems eroticising men, has done a deal with Persephone and obtained eight centuries of Sleeping Beauty time from her. The money runs out in May 1968, and it is a couple of surveyors building a new autoroute who are the first to penetrate the thorn hedge and wake her. She has fun at first, aided and abetted by her dragon-below-the-waist sister-in-law, the Fair Melusine, but soon comes to realise that soixante-huit hasn't led to anything and that France is still not the feminist paradise she was hoping for, so she moves on to a small country in the East where she has heard that women are treated as the full equals of men. In Berlin, she meets the single mother and S-Bahn driver Laura Salman, and the two form a writing partnership based on Beatriz's notion of trobadora and minstrel. Then Beatriz goes off in quest of a unicorn called Anaximander...
Morgner uses this complicated framework to explore many different aspects of gender relations in the modern world, especially the discrepancy between legal equality and social equality (women might have the same career opportunities as men in theory, but they still end up doing most of the childcare and housework), and attitudes to women's role as creative artists and in scientific research (a female physicist finds she needs to believe in her own magical powers if she is going to combine science with childcare responsibilities; a female nutritional scientist finds it useful to be able to change sex on demand...). There's a lot of ostensible praise for the wisdom of the East German model of society, but quite a lot of that is subtly undermined by comments elsewhere in the book. Socialism is clearly good for women - or at least it would be, if we were doing it right.
Very entertaining, full of interesting period detail about life in the DDR, but definitely not just a period-piece. ( )