Auseinandersetzung mit dem Abendlanddenken: Gisela von Wysockis Abendlandleben

The article examines Gisela von Wysocki's innovative first drama Abendlandleben (1987), in which she does away almost entirely with the dialogue structure of classical theatre and avoids familiar modes of individual self-exploration and -analysis. Instead, the self-determined bourgeois subject becomes a conglomerate of diverse social rules and ways of thinking that assign a separate status to women. They, like the "savages" in masculinist Enlightenment discourse, have become surfaces for the projection of unassimilatable desires. By illuminating Wysocki's modus operandi, the article aims to establish a basis for further scholarly discussion of her work. (JC)