Directing Elfriede Jelinek's Theater Texts: Co-authorial Complicity and Ethical Entanglements in Jossi Wieler's Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) and Nicolas Stemann's Die Schutzbefohlenen.

The article discusses the creative tension between the theater texts used by writer Elfriede Jelinek and the directors, actors and other collaborators working on her works by analyzing the production of the plays "Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)," directed by Jossi Wieler, and "Die Schutzbefohlenen," dire...

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Published in:	Journal of Austrian Studies Vol. 58; no. 2/3; pp. 1 - 34
Main Author:	Koerner, Morgan
Format:	Article
Published:	Modern Austrian Literature Summer/Fall2025
Subjects:	Theater production & direction Authorship collaboration Die Schutzbefohlenen (Theatrical production) Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946- Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) (Theatrical production) Xenophobia Mass murder
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Summary:	The article discusses the creative tension between the theater texts used by writer Elfriede Jelinek and the directors, actors and other collaborators working on her works by analyzing the production of the plays "Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)," directed by Jossi Wieler, and "Die Schutzbefohlenen," directed by Nicolas Stemann. Topics of the works include the murder of Jewish-Hungarian forced laborers in Austria after World War II, refugees, and xenophobia.