It was published in 1984 in the avant-garde journal manuscripte of Graz and premiered on the stage of the Schauspielhaus Bonn on February 12, 1987, directed by Hans Hollmann.
[3][4] Emily, the play's protagonist and a nurse, decides to leave her fiancé, Dr. Heidkliff, after falling in love with another woman, Carmilla.
When Dr. Heidkliff discovers Emily's transformation and decision to leave him for Carmilla, he and Benno decide to track down both women in order to kill them for "mock[ing] creation.
[9] Jelinek writes that Austria has "not been able, like other countries, to identify with the great, important figures of its past, its culture, or its history, and is stuck in the alternative of lightness or mountains of corpses.
Vera Boiter assesses the play by how it "appropriates the usual patriarchal stereotypes, images, and ideologies by completely reversing them and hurling them back to their place of origin.