Jelinek interweaves Schiller’s heroines, Maria Stuart and Queen Elisabeth, with the modern German history: The actresses playing Maria Stuart and Queen Elisabeth fight a verbal duel in which ideologies rage against each other. Jelinek creates a linguistic network of erotica and politics based on Schiller’s stanza, references from contemporary history and quotes from “The German Fall” (RAF/PFLP – Fall of 1977). Grotesquely, the rivaling heroines fight each other for power and the beloved Baader/Leichester while they fall and get soiled in the garbage by turns.
