Zwischenräume: der Weg des instrumentalisierten Körpers zum verlorenen sich Selbst in Angela Krauß´ Die Überfliegerin

Abstract

Third places and forms of overcoming, transitional spaces as existential forms after the reunification of the two Germanys and third places are basic aspects in the article. Along with the body, space plays a main role in the poetics of Angela Krauß. The anonymous voice of the „ Überfliegerin“ suddenly finds itself protected in chaos and disorientation in the living space and mutual environment. The protagonist’s perception of the world is between a desire, a lack, a loss, an intuition and a silence, between sleep and awakening, curiosity and distance, this dialectical game, the exception of a rout, disorientation after reunification. The theme of love is not explicitly in its sexual sense but as desire, openness, expectation, needs ; it becomes the expression of the first transitional space of a relationship of a body to the world, to an environment that has suddenly become strange. Memories develop into a dominant frame, they are linked to places, spaces doubling the daily news and the quest for the other. The body, the central place of all perceptions, becomes the link between past and present spaces and times. It is like a seismograph in this new environment.

Keywords

• interspaces
• angela krauß
• crossing borders
• body
• love