‘The Wall’: Human/Animal Ethics for Catastrophic Times

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‘The Wall’: Human/Animal Ethics for Catastrophic Times

Feat. Anna Richards 5th December 2024 45m

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.

BIO: Anna Richards is Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Culture, and Communications at Birkbeck, University of London. She studied French and German at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and at Balliol College, Oxford. During her studies she spent a year at the University of Tübingen as an Erasmus scholar and a year at the University of Hamburg as a Hanseatic Scholar. She was also a Research Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation in Berlin in the year 2004-5.

Other recent publications include, ‘Sentiment and specters: The posthumous influence of animals and women in Marie Espérance von Schwartz’s Gemma, oder Tugend und Laster (1877) and the late nineteenth-century anti-vivisection debate’, The German Quarterly, 97:3, 2024; and ‘“Ob Mädchen oder Hunde”: Women and Animals in Karen Duve’s Regenroman’, German Life and Letters, 71: 4, 2018.

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