7/27/2023 0 Comments Memoires des camps![]() ![]() ![]() The scenario Spiel um Zeit ( Playing for Time, Frankfu (.)ĥ The promiscuous head of this “weird women’ s club” is Georgette aka George, “a real petty souteneur”, whose falsetto voice makes the others giggle, while the rest of the “den’ s drones” rather speak with the most low-pitched voices possible to appear “more masculine” (262). 3 A film was produced based on Fénelon’ s book.And in all of this, Hilde’ s “favourites” – also women with black triangles – emulate her. ![]() She is described as a “dull brute”, anti-Semitic and utterly obscene: “Hilde and Inge smirk and gawk at us: drunk, their breasts exposed, fondly entangled” (Fénelon 1982, 259) 1. The scenery starts at the block of latrines, where Black Triangle Hilde reigns over all the latrines as Kapo. In the chapter “ Der Ball der schwarzen Dreiecke ”, the Jewish chanson-singer Fania Fénelon, who had been since January 1944 ordered to play music in Auschwitz-Birkenau, writes about her encounters with the “ schwarzen Winkeln ” (“Black Triangles”) at the camp. What is remarkable here – besides the derogatory description of lesbians – is the comparison of lesbians to prostitutes. 1 All translations from German sources are Elisabeth Tutschek’ s.ģ One of the most detailed descriptions of lesbian conduct in the memoir genre can be found in Fania Fénelons’ novel Das Mädchenorchester in Auschwitz, which reached high circulation and was also turned into a film. ![]()
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