Geisterbahn

Geisterbahn (Ghost Train) is a play by Franz Xaver Kroetz. The sequel to Stallerhof (1971), it is cited as one of Kroetz's most important works in the period.^[1] Geisterbahn was written soon after Stallerhoff but remained unperformed until 1975.^[2]

The playwright Kroetz is known for his plays featuring severely mentally or emotionally impaired characters, often set in his native Bavaria.^[3] Geisterbahn and Stallerhoff are plays which are renowned for their sex and violence, with "graphic scenes of rape, defecation, masturbation, nudity, and an infanticide".^[1] During the play, Sepp and Beppi's child, born at the end of Stallerhof, is killed.