Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte; oder Stützen der Gesellschaften (What Happened after Nora Left Her Husband; or Pillars of Society) is a play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek.
It was first published in 1979 and premiered in October that year, directed by Kurt-Josef Schildknecht, in Graz.
[1] Jelinek's first play follows in the tradition of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House[2] and her novel Die Liebhaberinnen.
[3] The play follows Ibsen's Nora in order to show how a "small capitalist elite is able to control political and economic institutions.
"[5] By the play's end, Nora "frees herself" from her upper-class role as a wife and mother to become a factory worker.