Weiterschreiben. Marie Luise Kaschnitz' and Friederike Mayröcker's Requiems

In my presentation I will examine texts of mourning by two women authors:  Marie Luise Kaschnitz’ poem „Requiem“ in the context of her anthology Mein Schweigen -  deine Stimme (1962) and  Wohin denn ich (1963) and Friederike Mayröcker’s Requiem for Ernst Jandl (2001) and Und ich schüttelte einen Liebling (2005). I will trace the ways in which these texts write and perform ‘Trauerarbeit’, how they draw on different archives of images and gestures at hand in a rich tradition and produce forceful and exceptional poetic forms. I will explore how for both writers ‘weiterleben’ is intricately bound to ‘weiterschreiben’ and then try and raise questions about gendered distributions of ‘cultural work’.