Ok sorabjiland... I need information on this German writer, whom I believe is still living, but about whom I can find NOTHING! Has anyone ever heard of her? Is it a pen name? Can you point me in the direction of any of her published or unpublished works? Academic affiliation perhaps? (Ok so she's not an obscure composer but an obscure writer...)

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Fleisser%2C+Marieluise+%281901%2D1974%29 ?

yep, this too: http://www.fembio.org/women-from/munich/marieluise-fleisser.shtml and, thanks Dave. Do you know her work? Plays?

no. describe them.

I can't. That's the problem. And I haven't found the text of the plays or her apparent shorts or novels....though it appears from the really screwey translated piece I have she was rediscovered in the sixties, and enjoyed a revival in her controversial writing about her upbringing in a convent... I have the feeling, though I dunno for sure, that there were objectionable sexual overtones for a woman writer in her time... but not sure. There was nothing on her work in the university library consulted by my son, and he writes, speaks, thinks German. And recently was awarded an internship in international business in Germany for this summer. He had asked me about her work, as he thinks I might know obscure writers for his father is one too. Or may be he just wanted me to do his research...

and she's dead too.

yeah well, most people die and quickly fade into oblivion. 6 billion+ people dying eventually. i probably know a few hundred of them. mice die. worms die. we all die. it changes nothing. r.i.p. marieluise.