In the case of Wolken.Heim., as both text and play, this unification is only possible through the imagination of the reader and audience member. Jelinek’s selection, placement and slight alterations of the quotes speak to the type of theatre that she desires-a world in which the actor’s physical presence and the import of the lines that he speaks meld into a unified whole. eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century German thought.
Through her use of the “montage” technique she arranges quotes from German thinkers-among others, Hölderlin, Hegel, Fichte, Kleist, Heidegger, and the “Rote Armee Faktion” (“RAF”)-in such a way that one can see commonalities, contradictions and interesting points made by these authors about German identity as it progresses through.
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