Wahlverwandtschaften 2.0: StÃ¶rungen der Friedhofsruhe in Kerstin Hensels Novelle Regenbeins Farben (2020)

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004725010_006

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This chapter reads Kerstin Henselâs Regenbeins Farben with a focus on intertextual references, primarily Johann Wolfgang von Goetheâs Wahlverwandtschaften. Like the novel from 1809, Regenbeins Farben displays disruptions and disturbances in nature and society. They originate in technological inventions as much as in humansâ desire to control nature or their inability to contain their cravings and yearnings, which inevitably seem to determine their lives akin to the coerciveness of Wahlverwandtschaften (elective affinities) in chemistry. Against the backdrop of Goetheâs novel, Hensel reveals the preordained swaying of life epitomised in the up-and-down movements of airplanes, in the so-called âyo-yo of joyâ, which rolls up and down on its string, and in the biblical notion that there is a time for everything. In a mode characteristic for Hensel â events take place in tangible locations such as a specific Berlin graveyard while everything seems somehow disarranged, bizarre and magical â Regenbeins Farben draws attention to problematic aspects of German history and contemporary society, social upheaval as well as ongoing antisemitism. Despite such precarious trajectories, however, the novella portrays death as a part of life and highlights the potential disturbances in life and death retain for individual liberation â not least with support of the arts.

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Kerstin Hensel

Literary Correspondences

Series:Â German Monitor, Volume: 84

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 17 Feb 2025

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