Trapped in the “Flower Bulb” Model, Hebbel and Women

Authors

  • Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza University of Massachusetts, Amherst

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/568

Keywords:

Literatur, Naturverhältnisse, Neuzeit, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Hilmar Grundmann focuses on what Friedrich Hebbel termed in his journal the great process of the sexes: “Woman and man in their pure relationship to one another” (Tb III, Nr. 3475). After inspecting Hebbel’s pantragic understanding of the world and theater, Grundmann goes on a search for the construction of gender relations in Hebbel’s journals and tragedies. In so doing, Grundmann examines Hebbel’s model of the tragic heroine. In the end he cannot quite decipher the “entzwiebelten Blumenziebeldamen,” the enigmatic “de-onioned flower-bulb ladies.”

Published

2007-11-06

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