http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6766 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:02:52 GMT 2026-04-14T17:02:52Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6765 Considerazioni introduttive Lops, Marina; Nienhaus, Stefan; Perrone Capano, Lucia Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6765 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6764 Transgressionen bei Mela Hartwig: Aufzeichnungen einer Häßlichen (1928) und das Ideal der ‚Neuen Frau‘ Box, Marijke Mela Hartwig’s story Aufzeichnungen einer Häßlichen, first published in 1928, is about a nurse who thinks she is unspeakably ugly and falls unhappily in love with her superior doctor. The protagonist tells her own story in retrospect and does not omit any embarrassment, but rather dissects her love mania in detail, from which she cannot free herself for a long time. The dreams of the ‘New Woman’ are far removed from this character, because this ideal is simply unattainable for her. Instead, negativity dominates the story from the start. Accordingly, the external approach to the modern type of woman also fails. Although the nurse is economically independent and financially well-positioned due to her professional activity, she has no chance in matters of private happiness, not least because she cannot adapt to the pragmatic lifestyle of New Objectivity. In the confrontation with her own biography, however, something liberating also emerges. Thus, in her later work with the mentally ill, she finds a way to express genuine affection and a connection with humanity - contrary to the cynicism with which New Objectivity was dealing at the time. The ideal of the ‘New Woman’ is not only temporarily suspended by this willful protagonist, but is finally dismissed as a superficial illusion. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6764 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6763 “Die Fröste der Freiheit” Mela Hartwig, Marieluise Fleißer e il lato oscuro dell’emancipazione Gheri, Paola In line with the great changes that took place after World War I, in the societies of German-speaking countries women achieved important goals in the struggle for emancipation. Yet, once legal rights were gained, women had to cope with their new freedoms in public life. Between the image of the ‘New Woman’ and the harsh reality of post-war capitalistic society there was in fact a great gap. In the prose works of Marieluise Fleißer and Mela Hartwig analysed in this study, women contending with emancipation have to suffer terrible defeats. Although very different from each other, both writers share a particular interest in the dramatic contradictions of female existence in modern reality. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6763 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6762 La neue lesbische Frau weimariana o sulla narrativizzazione dell’immagine della donna queer Iannucci, Giulia In order to understand the lesbian/queer literary production as a defined category referring to the theories of the third sex by Ulrichs and Hirschfeld, the present investigation aims to examine the novels by Aimée Duc, Sind es Frauen? Roman über das dritte Geschlecht (1901), Maximiliane Ackers, Freundinnen. Ein Roman unter Frauen (1923), and Christa Winsloe, Das Mädchen Manuela (1933). The close reading of these “reference models” allows the observation of the representation modalities of the Lesbenfrage from a social, cultural and erotic perspective. At the same time, it shows to what extent these texts contributed to the structural implementation of a new discourse of gender identity increasingly tending towards a queer perspective and therefore definitively distancing from the “classical” figure of the neue Frau. Hence, the present analysis tries to contribute to make partially visible the cultural heritage of the Weimar neue lesbische Frau through its narrative self-representation. Iannucci, Testi e linguaggi (2022) Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6762 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z