Gender, subjectivity, and cultural critique from the fin de siecle to fascism -- The post-1945 crisis of enlightenment and the emergence of the "other" sex -- Challenging masculine subjectivity : Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina -- From his point of view : Max Frisch’s Mein Name sei Gantenbein -- The critique of instrumental reason : Max Frisch’s Homo Faber and Christa Wolf’s Storfall -- Pathologies : Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin and Rainald Goetz’s Irre -- End visions : Heiner Muller’s Die Hamletmaschine and Christa Wolf’s Kassandra -- Beyond the impasse? : Barbara Kohler’s "Elektra. Spiegelungen".