RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 “An Unconditional Kleistian”: A Note to Barbara Honigmann’s <em>Bilder von A.</em>
JF Monatshefte
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 233
OP 246
DO 10.3368/m.108.2.233
VO 108
IS 2
A1 Gabriele Eckart
YR 2016
UL http://mon.uwpress.org/content/108/2/233.abstract
AB This study examines the German writer and painter Barbara Honigmann’s complex relationship to the works of Heinrich von Kleist. During the last decade, Honigmann has become renowned for novels in which she describes her experience of crossing borders—geographically (from the GDR to France in 1984), linguistically (from German to French), and religiously (converting to Judaism after having been an ardent Marxist). As she explains in her narrative Bilder von A. (2011), reading, rereading, staging Kleist, and painting a portrait of the writer played an important role in the process of negotiating her identity during the years in the GDR and afterwards, in France.