Esther Vilar

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Esther Vilar (1977)

Esther Margareta Vilar (born as Esther Margareta Katzen on September 16, 1935 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentinian - German doctor and writer who was the author of the book The Trained Man and related public appearances and controversies in the 1970s Gained notoriety.

life and work

Vilar, the daughter of German-Jewish emigrants, studied medicine in Argentina and from 1960 sociology and psychology at the University of Social Sciences in Wilhelmshaven and in Munich . She first worked as a doctor. She later worked as a translator and radio writer and began to write books. Esther Vilar is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation .

With her book Der trained Mann , she became known as a writer in 1971 through her appearance on the Eurovision show Wünsch Dir was . In this book she formulated the provocative thesis that not - as postulated by the emerging women's movement at the time - women are oppressed by men, but conversely that men are oppressed by women. With the book she sparked great controversy and was sometimes exposed to violent hostility, physical attacks - she was beaten up in the toilet of the Munich State Library by four young women - and even death threats. According to their own statement, this was the reason for their fleeing emigration from Germany.

In 1975, she fought a TV duel with Alice Schwarzer , who was known as a representative of the women's movement at the time. Der Spiegel called Vilar in its report on the program "fashionable-popular male helper in the battle between the sexes". After the broadcast, the show was controversial. Opinions were divided as to who emerged dominant from this television duel.

In her book, The End of dressage (1977) directed Vilar at length against the alleged opinion leadership of lesbians , whom they accused of heterosexual to seduce women "would normally be absolutely inaccessible to their unusual requests." In order to be able to do this, they would use the feminist movement, which consists almost entirely of lesbians and “male feminists”.

Esther Vilar published other books and plays , which were often directed against "left" and feminist positions. Her well-known texts include the idiosyncratic examination of Henrik Ibsen's play Nora or A Doll's House , which was very well received by the women's movement in the 1970s. Her plays, especially EiferSucht, are played on German-speaking and European stages.

In The Beguiling Shine of Stupidity , she turned against too much specialization. In the preceding dedication it says: "That is the whole misery: the stupid are so sure and the clever are so full of doubts" (by Bertrand Russell ). In The Five Hour Society , she propagated an alternative working time model . Vilar tried to regulate the coexistence better with the help of two 5-hour units per day. Each of the partners should work a shift so that someone can always be with the children. The weekly working time would be reduced to 25 hours, but this would extend the working life. However, this would have to happen without wage compensation. In The Polygamous Sex , she described in a section what she thought love was.

Vilar sees her real topic in the confrontation with the very fundamental quantities of “freedom” and “captivity”, as she herself emphasizes in the epilogue to her book The Inaugural Address of the American Popess : “The fear of freedom - the longing, all personal responsibility in To lay the hands of someone else, to bend freely to his orders - has always been the theme of my writing and will probably remain somehow decisive for them until the end. "

Esther Vilar was married twice, her first marriage to an Argentine surgeon and her second marriage to the writer Klaus Wagn. With this she ran the Caann publishing house together.

Publications

Non-fiction

Fiction

  • Man and doll. Novel. Caann, Munich 1969.
  • The summer after Picasso's death. A game. Caann, Munich 1969.
  • Please no Mozart. Satirical novel. Herbig, Munich / Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-7766-1179-0 .
  • The inaugural address of the American Popess. Herbig, Munich / Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7766-1224-X .
  • The mathematics of Nina Gluckstein. Novella. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-502-11800-0 .
  • Rosita's skin. Novel. Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1990, ISBN 3-430-19369-9 .
  • Jealousy. Novel for three fax machines and a tape recorder. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999, ISBN 3-7857-0998-6 .
  • The seven fires of Mademoiselle. Novel. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-7857-2029-7 .
  • Talk and silence in Palermo. Erotic thriller. bankruptcy book, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88769-726-6 .

Plays

  • Helmer or a doll's house. Variation on a theme by Henrik Ibsen. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-548-20188-1 .
  • The new princes. 1982.
  • The inaugural address of the American Popess. 1982.
  • Rothschild's neighbor. 1990.
  • Education of angels. 1996.
  • Spear. / Book edition: Speer With contributions by Klaus Maria Brandauer and Wolfgang Schächen . Photos by Jim Rocket . Transit, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88747-128-8 .
  • Carmen
  • Jealousy. Drama for three fax machines.
  • Jealousy. Drama for three PCs 2008.
  • The barracuda's smile.
  • Love song for a restless man. (Penelope) comedy
  • Math of love.
  • The mosquito.
  • Mr & Mrs Nobel. 2011 (film adaptation under the title A Love for Peace - Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel 2014)
  • Talk and silence in Palermo.
  • Traveling with Lady Astor.
  • The strategy of the butterflies.
  • Schedule of a vengeance. (Tristan and Isolde)
  • Sylt.
  • The tango dancer.
  • Tennis.

Web links

Commons : Esther Vilar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Esther Vilar  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Advisory Board: Vilar, Esther. Giordano Bruno Foundation, accessed September 6, 2011 .
  2. ^ Esther Vilar: Author's Introduction to The Manipulated Man. August 1998, accessed August 16, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Peer Teuwsen: "Love makes you unfree" . Interview. In: Die Weltwoche . No. 51 , 2007 ( weltwoche.ch [accessed on February 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Alice versus Esther. A dispute between Esther Vilar and Alice Schwarzer. Video of the entire WDR TV show on YouTube , online since… January 16, 2014, accessed on February 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ In the clinch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1975 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Klaudia Brunst: Woman against woman . In: The time . No. 25 , 2005 ( zeit.de [accessed February 11, 2018]).
  7. ↑ EiferSucht ", drama for three fax machines by Esther Vilar , at AuGuSTheater Neu-Ulm / Theater Neu-Ulm
  8. ↑ Esther Vilar: The Inaugural Address of the American Popess . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-548-20429-5 , pp. 123 .
  9. ↑ Make a wish . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1971 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Harriet Schwerin: Esther Vilar, author of the "Popess" in the cathedral. Berliner Zeitung , November 28, 1995, accessed on February 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Vilar, Esther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cats, Esther Margareta (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires