Child woman

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Kindfrau or Lolita are terms for girls or women who have characteristics of childliness as well as mental and physical maturity or who represent or are represented accordingly in order to gain erotic attractiveness (see child scheme ).

While nanny is to be understood as an expression of the synthesis of child and woman , the name Lolita (as a nickname of Dolores ) has its origin in Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name , in which the protagonist falls in love with the 12-year-old “Lolita”.

Fiction and reality

There are women whose childlike physical features are preserved in a special way, and in the case of precocious girls there is often a superimposition of the childlike and mature features, but nannies are found primarily as products of skillful representation of women or girls in various media .

Child women in modern media

In the medium of the novel, all that was needed was the imagination of the author who created the nanny. Whether the reader imagines Effi Briest as a young but adult woman or as girlish is up to you. In his work Die Barrisons , disguised as a translation from French , which deals with the fictional fate of the then popular dancer group Barrison Sisters , Anton Lindner parodies the phenomenon. The motif of love for nannies appears repeatedly in the novels of Arno Schmidt's late work ( Zettel's dream , evening with gold rim , Julia, or the paintings ).

In the age of television, however, it is necessary that specific people are presented. There is a real marketing of women and girls who are trained in lolita-like behavior and portrayed accordingly using cosmetics , photography and film . The term Lolita is increasingly displacing that of the nanny .

The lolita cult goes back to the - now even more exaggerated - fiction within the framework of Lolicon art in Japan.

"Lolita makers" and their models

In the marketing of the Lolitalook, there are specialists who specifically create the image of a child woman for young women and girls , for example Jacques Bourboulon (photographer) and David Hamilton (photographer and filmmaker).

Some young actresses and photo models began their careers in Lolita roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including Nastassja Kinski , Lara Wendel , Eva Ionesco (both in Play We Love ) and Dawn Dunlap . Examples from the 1990s are Jane March and Dominique Swain . A trend initiated by " Twiggy " in the 1960s and 1970s was also characterized by the particular slimness of photo models.

Rejection and legal issues

Actresses of nannies are not necessarily minors; a counterexample was Patti D'Arbanville in Hamilton's Bilitis . Otherwise, works in which “child women” appear may be prosecuted as child or youth pornography or their distribution may be prohibited.

At the time of the sexual revolution , when the rejection of material previously viewed as pornographic was decreasing, photographs (photo books) and films depicting “nannies” had some success. This went back later. The David Hamilton # criticism section describes these changes in an exemplary manner (“bad taste”, “old filthy bitch”). The distribution of such material has been restricted because of allegations of " pedophilia, " for example, in 2005 , the Internet bookstore WHSmith removed Hamilton's book The Age of Innocence from its range due to persistent criticism. The Museum Folkwang in Essen said in early 2014 provided for April exhibition of photographic works by Balthus from because of pedophilia accusations "unintended legal consequences" and the closure threatened the exhibition. The plan was to show Polaroid photos of a girl eight years old at the beginning of the series of photos , partly half-naked, often with her legs apart.

In the 1970s, the later actress and film director Eva Ionesco, born in 1965, became known as the publicly controversial child-like nude model of her mother, the photographer Irina Ionesco , and Jacques Bourboulon . In October 1976, a series of photos with her, created by Bourboulon, appeared in the Italian edition of Playboy . This made her the youngest nude model in the history of the magazine. On May 23, 1977, Der Spiegel published a nude photo taken by her mother of the pubescent Eva Ionesco with erotic accessories on its front page , the headline was "The sold Lolitas". This led to a reprimand by the German Press Council for sexism for the first time in German history on July 23 of the same year . In 2011 Ionesco presented her autobiographical feature film debut with I'm Not a F ** king Princess , in which her mother was portrayed by Isabelle Huppert and she herself by Anamaria Vartolomei . On November 12, 2012, she sued her mother for damages in the amount of 200,000 euros and for the surrender of all nude photos that her mother had taken of her in the 1970s.

Clothes fashion

In addition to the effect that the lolita-like behavior of girls and young women is imitated, a certain style of clothing develops, with which the image of the nanny is associated. This is called the Lolita type and the Lolita look , but nothing with the Lolita fashion from Japan have to do.

In the media: individual creators and works

photography

Movie

literature

painting

literature

  • Andrea Bramberger: The child woman. Lust, provocation, play. Matthes and Seitz, Munich 2000, 2002. ISBN 3-88221-286-1
  • Sina Aline Geissler: The Lolita Complex. Heyne, Munich 1993. ISBN 3-453-06506-9
  • Beate Hochholdinger-Reiterer: About the creation of the child woman. Braumüller, Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-7003-1243-1
  • Alexandra Lavizzari: Lulu, Lolita and Alice - The life of famous children's museums. Ebersbach, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-934703-93-3
  • Marianne Sinclair: Hollywood Lolita. The nymph myth. Plexus, London 1988, 1989. ISBN 0-85965-130-4

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Effi Briest
  2. Chris Warmoll: Hamilton's naked girl shots ruled 'indecent'. The Guardian , June 23, 2005, accessed November 26, 2016.
  3. ^ Pedophilia debate: Museum Folkwang cancels Balthus exhibition . Mirror online. February 4, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
  4. Der Spiegel title page May 23, 1977 , in Die Chronik: Highlights from 40 Years , Emma (magazine), January 24, 2017, accessed October 17, 2018
  5. FrauenMediaTurm (see: July 23, 1977). Archived from the original on April 23, 2008 ; Retrieved October 18, 2011 .
  6. Alice Schwarzer : Prostitution Pedophilia . Die Zeit , November 28, 2013, No. 49, features section p. 51
  7. ^ Actress Eva Ionesco sues mother , Welt Online , November 14, 2012