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Marlene Streeruwitz
(1950-)

Active: 1986- in Austria, Germany, Continental Europe

By Britta Kallin (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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  • Active In: Austria, Germany, Continental Europe
  • Born In: Austria, Continental Europe
  • Activity: Playwright, Novelist, Essayist, Feminist

Life, Works and Times

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Along with Barbara Frischmuth and Elfriede Jelinek, Marlene Streeruwitz is one of the prominent contemporary Austrian women writers and public intellectuals. Streeruwitz started writing radio plays and plays for the stage in the mid-1980s. After being disappointed by the reception of her plays in the mid-1990s, however, she turned to writing novels in 1996, and has written only a few plays since then. Her early and later plays are marked by a morbid touch, absurd action, and sometimes-unexpected brutality. In some she assembles characters from

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First published 28 June 2006

Citation: Kallin, Britta. "Marlene Streeruwitz". The Literary Encyclopedia. 28 June 2006.
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