Marlene Streeruwitz

You have to get used to this automatic rifle. The sentences rattle along at short intervals. Sometimes they pause abruptly and there is a break in the rhythm to reload, but then it goes on again, immediately, abruptly and breathlessly. Marlene Streeruwitz has taken her categorical contemporary style to extremes. Every sentence vibrates with data storage, absorbing globalisation, exploitative labour and sexuality as a weapon. Everything is always taken to the limits.
Amy Schreiber is undergoing paramilitary training with a private security service and is being prepared for deployment in crisis regions such as Iraq or Afghanistan. allsecura, as the company is called at the beginning, is taken over. Its name is changed and it is floated on the stock exchange. If it was not already clear that these are hard, commercial jobs, it becomes so now. Amy, short for Amalie, is 24, Austrian and very pretty. She dropped out of a business administration course at university and wants to get a proper job – it might just as easily have been as a model.

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© Süddeutsche Zeitung, 27 September 2011