What do the writers Gisela Elsner, Oda Schaefer, Luise Rinser and Asta Scheib have in common? At first glance, not much more than that they lived or live in Munich. Nastasja S. Dresler finds a few more connecting elements in her book “Writing Women after ’45”.
Imagine a day in 1958: Gisela Elsner is sitting at the typewriter in Planegg, smoking and typing, while her son crawls through the hall, whimpering, unnoticed. A few kilometers into the city, Ingeborg Bachmann works in her apartment on Franz-Joseph-Straße and plans to soon escape the unloved Munich to Zurich. She publishes with the same Piper publishing house as the journalist and poet Oda Schaefer, who recently moved to Munich. She, in turn, knows Luise Rinser, who is currently turning her back on her marriage to Carl Orff and the Ammersee and moving back to Munich.