Forthcoming November 2012 UWAP  http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/ 

konkretion (novella)

konkretion stages in contemporary Paris a dialogue between two women writers grappling with the relationship of writing, revolution and terror. The contested site is a dramatic poem sequence by one of the women, re-imagining moments in the lives of Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin of the Red Army Faction [die Rote Armee Fraktion]: from Ulrike’s tripwire decision in 1970 to take the ‘leap into illegitimacy’, through the flight underground, the crimes committed in the name of ‘armed struggle’, to their conflict-blighted incarceration until 1976. The work is driven by the question whether a different kind of poetics might have had led Meinhof and Ensslin to less tragically murderous outcomes and how, in commemoration, we might avoid romancing the outlaw.