Abstract
Introduction : a writer beyond nation and time / Helga W. Kraft and Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Elsa Bernstein's appeal to contemporary theater audiences : Maria Arndt in Chicago 2002 / Helga W. Kraft -- Re-performing the Frauenfrage in Chicago : interview with Curt Columbus, Chicago Steppenwolf Theatre / Helga W. Kraft and Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Bernstein's Königskinder : utopia of the power of love / Elke Liebs -- Bernstein's works and the women's movement / Elizabeth Ametsbichler -- Gender, art, science : Elsa Bernstein's critique of naturalist aesthetics / Astrid Weigert -- Revamping female authorship : Elsa Bernstein's Wir Drei and the drama of modernism / Friederike B. Emonds -- "No servitude is as misterable as that of women" : Elsa Bernstein's neoclassical tragedies / Sabine von Mering -- Daughter and sister : family structure in the work of Elsa Bernstein / Gertrud Roesch -- The eternal feminine and the eternal triangle : men between two women in Bernstein's naturalistic dramas / Susanne Kord -- A woman hidden from the world : male pseudonym and a-prominent : Elsa Proges-Bernstein alias Ernst Rosmer and in Theresienstadt L-126 / Deborah Victor-Englander -- Writing for survival : Bernstein's Theresienstadt experience / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Rediscovering Bernstein's Theresienstadt memoir / Rita Bake and Birgit Kiupel.