In/Securities: Queer Life Narratives of Early Modern Times

Introduction - Does War Bring out the Devil in You? Demonization in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668?/?1669) - Clothes make the man": Fashion/ing Grimmelshausen’s Picaros - Courasche and the Queer Life of Objects - Naming in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus Teutsch - Agrippina’s Queer After/Life: Consequences of the Thirty Years’ War and the Breslau School Stage (Lohenstein’s Agrippina; 1665/1666) - Self-editing, Allegory, Parody – The Life-Writing of Johanna Eleonora Petersen - Chimerical Selves: Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus and Kehlmann’s Tyll - Perpetual Escape. The Impossibility of Containment in Angela Steidele’s Rosenstengel - Life as a Balancing Act: Angela Steidele’sRosenstengel and Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll