Inge Arteel

Bio

Inge Arteel is professor of German literature at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Her research focuses on post-1945 and contemporary Austrian literature and drama – with a particular interest in neo-avant-garde authors and playwrights –, on the radio play, and performance studies. Recent co-edited volumes include Susanne Kennedy. Reanimating the Theatre (Narr Francke Attempto 2023), and Fragen zum Lyrischen in Friederike Mayröckers Poesie (Metzler 2020). She translates Elfriede Jelinek into Dutch.

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The present essay approaches the topic of this cluster—a Politics of Form Revisited—from a perspective that links up with current demands for reconceptualizing the relations between politics and aesthetics, based on a renewed interest in questions of collectivity. Close readings and listenings of two radio plays from the literary neo-avant-gardes will illustrate the explanatory potential of our approach: Ein Blumenstück ( A Piece of Flowers, 1968), written by the German author Ludwig Harig, a...