Frauenfiguren in Kathrin Rögglas Prosaband Irres Wetter: sprachliche Inszenierungen

Abstract

This article examines the collection of short stories Irres Wetter (2000) by contemporary author Kathrin Röggla with the aim of focusing on the narrative and linguistic strategies with which the writer represents a multifaceted typology of female figures against the background of today’s globalised society. The environment in which Röggla’s heroines move is Berlin in the 1990s, which, with its consumerism, precarious work structures and other traits typical of the reality that emerged from the end of real socialism, profoundly affects the identity and perception of the world of these female subjects. Using various linguistic and narratological resources such as ad hoc compounds, satirical contrasts or the omission of the traditional narrator, the writer succeeds in capturing and denouncing the new forms of inauthentic life generated by the economic and social logic of the present world.