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Each to their own
Authors, literary texts, aesthetic programme
Melvin Burgess: Hundsfrau / Lady: My life as a bitch
Book: Melvin Burgess, Hundsfrau, Carlsen Verlag 2003, 223 pages, as of 14
English Titel: Melvin Burgess: Lady: My life as a bitch. Andersen Press Ltd, 2001
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Content
Following a sexual attack by a tramp, the 17-year old Sandra is turned into a dog. Her senses and perspective on her surroundings are changed completely. Sandra meets stray dogs, can talk to them and exchange experiences. Ultimately, she is faced with an existential decision: human or animal.
As in the other books by Melvin Burgess, life designs that break with the norm play a central role. This includes ideas about happiness which reach the boundaries of that what is permissible in society. The book intensifies young people's questions about identity in an extreme manner, including sexual, murder and suicide fantasies.
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Activity concept: The idea
Melvin Burgess story »Lady: My life as a bitch« deals with the border area and the transition between human and animal, a subject which has inspired artists for thousands of years. As with Ovid, he uses the motif of metamorphosis and develops this into a conflict. With all animal instincts, but still equipped with the human power of reflection whilst being turned into a dog, Sandra can philosophise on the human and animal existence, look at advantages and disadvantages and thus provoke the reader to consider their existence as a biological and intellectual being and also consider their own life concepts. The activity concept uses the Fors and Againsts in the discussion on human or animal existence and takes this further. A simulated podium discussion with clearly defined roles provides the framework. The aesthetic process of the change of perspective is thus carried out through all elements of the event. In order to at least indicate the dimension of the subject in the history of Western literature, the activity places the book in a broader context of motifs.
Time: approx. 3 hours; Concept: Claudia Rouvel; Rudolf Wenzel, as of 15 years
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Introduction to activity
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Workgroups and documentation
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