Discussing Marlen Haushofer’s novel, The Wall (1963), with Dr Anna Richards, a scholar of German women’s writing, feminism, and critical animal studies. Her recent article ‘”The Friendship of Our Distant Relations”: Feminism and Animal Families in Marlen Haushofer’s Die Wand (1963)’ (Feminist German Studies 36.2, 2020), discusses how the protagonist’s interactions with non-human animals are in keeping with a feminist ethics of care.
‘The Wall’: Human/Animal Ethics for Catastrophic Times


