Bambiland

Bambiland is a play by the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek .

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In Bambiland Elfriede Jelinek describes the Iraq war and its representation in the media. In the monologue-like piece, created parallel to the Iraq war, the war is portrayed from the perspective of an embedded writer, so the narrator is a participant in the war himself. Here Jelinek takes up a technique that was already used by the Greek tragedy poet Aeschylus in his play The Persians . In this sense, Jelinek's main character quotes the Greek poet again and again, mostly hidden in half-clauses and subordinate clauses.

Performances

The world premiere took place on December 12, 2003 at the Burgtheater Vienna . Directed by Christoph Schlingensief . Bambiland was performed at the James Arnott Theater in Glasgow on February 9 and 10, 2017 .

Quotes

“My thanks to Aeschylus and the 'Persians', translated by Oskar Werner. You can also take a pinch of Nietzsche from me. The rest is not mine either. His parents are bad. He's from the media "

- Elfriede Jelinek : Bambiland

“The state wars are not getting any less. We need enemies of the state, troublemakers, all the more. Until the next war, Elfriede Jelinek! "

- Christoph Schlingensief : Foreword to Bambiland

literature

• Elfriede Jelinek: Bambiland . Attached work: Babel. Two theater texts . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-498-03225-9 .

Secondary literature

• Andreas Blödorn: Medialization of war: With Susan Sontag in Elfriede Jelinek's “Bambiland”. In: GegenwartsLiteratur. Ein Germanistisches Jahrbuch / A German Studies Yearbook 5/2006, pp. 142–164.

Web links

• Complete text on Elfriede Jelinek's website
• Review in: Die Zeit , No. 52/2003
• Review in: Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Bambiland at the Burgtheater
• Wiki article about Bambiland in JeliNetz