Abstract: This article explores the relationship between critical ecofeminist theory and Elfriede Jelinek's texts to demonstrate how Jelinek connects hierarchical relationships between humans and "earth others" with patriarchal relationships between men and women as well as Jews and refugees. Already in her early novel Oh Wildnis, oh Schutz vor ihr , Jelinek connects the hierarchical relationship between humans and nature with that between men and women, privileged and nonprivileged groups. The exploitation of nature in the history of the Western world and the domination and control of women, Jews, and refugees frequently appear in her texts, and Jelinek draws parallels between these relationships. In her later plays Die Alpen, Das Werk , and her recent trilogy Sonne / Luft / Asche , the Nobel Laureate focuses on the current climate crisis and the destruction of nature and its connections with hierarchical and authoritarian relationships between men and women and the role of marginalized communities in our societies.
Britta Kallin (Mon,) studied this question.