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Die Schwerkraft der Verhältnisse
A dull, heavy haze lies over the city of Donaublau and chokes off the breath of its inhabitants. After Berta Schrei had been in the hospital room for a long time, her husband Wilhelm finally visited her on her 40th birthday. Wilhelm, a front-line returnee, chauffeur and go-her-da, a "smiling representative of his nation", is now in a relationship with Berta's girlfriend Wilhelmine, who "overly deliberately and awkwardly eats the egg empty". During their marriage, Berta, the shy brooding woman, tried in vain to save herself and her two children from being seized by those around her. Before a tragedy struck that left her speechless, she used to tell her children, "One man, one word, and you are lost."
In her novel, Marianne Fritz counters the petty-bourgeois rigidity of the post-war period with a polyphonic literature of dreams, wishes and memories, whose protagonist Berta "somehow gets everything wrong" and yet escapes the GRAVITY OF RELATIONSHIPS as an autonomous heroine.
The Austrian author Marianne Fritz (1948–2007) uncompromisingly withdrew from the public eye throughout her life. Her main work was the poetically dense prose project DIE FESTUNG, which covered several thousand pages and dealt with the entire history of Austria. In 1978 her award-winning and now unjustly forgotten debut novel DIE SCHWERKRAFT DER VERLALTNISSE was published.
At the Burgtheater, the director Bastian Kraft has repeatedly demonstrated his affinity for the stage adaptation of complex prose works with DORIAN GRAY and MEPHISTO.
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In her novel, Marianne Fritz counters the petty-bourgeois rigidity of the post-war period with a polyphonic literature of dreams, wishes and memories, whose protagonist Berta "somehow gets everything wrong" and yet escapes the GRAVITY OF RELATIONSHIPS as an autonomous heroine.
The Austrian author Marianne Fritz (1948–2007) uncompromisingly withdrew from the public eye throughout her life. Her main work was the poetically dense prose project DIE FESTUNG, which covered several thousand pages and dealt with the entire history of Austria. In 1978 her award-winning and now unjustly forgotten debut novel DIE SCHWERKRAFT DER VERLALTNISSE was published.
At the Burgtheater, the director Bastian Kraft has repeatedly demonstrated his affinity for the stage adaptation of complex prose works with DORIAN GRAY and MEPHISTO.
Subject to change.
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