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As Germany’s birthrate declines, childlessness is a reality for more women yet remains underrepresented in literature and pop-culture. In this article, I analyze two texts that have struck a nerve with the German public: the novel  Wetlands  by Charlotte Roche (2008) and the connected short stories in  Alice  by Judith Hermann (2009). Both protagonists resist what Lee Edelman called the “fascism of the baby’s face” and remain childless despite cultural pressure to reproduce. Drawing on works by queer theorists such as Edelman and Halberstam, I show how the texts question neoliberalism’s insistence on reproductive futurity and posit counter models for life beyond biological family.

Family without futurity, kinship without biology: childlessness in contemporary German literature by women