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Bernhard’s literary texts are replete with (juridically well-informed) inheritance stories, last wills and legacies, inheritance conflicts and constraints. Many texts follow in their construction the genealogical line from fathers to sons that is burdened by an always fatal family and national history, which is represented via inheritance law and narration. A case in point is the story “Ungenach” (1968), in which the son, as the sole heir, is confronted with a rich inheritance bequeathed to him by his father, who owned huge estates. The story deals with his efforts to organize an “Abschenkung” (divestment by donation) in favor of criminals and outsiders to get rid of his ancestry. A similar plot rules Bernhard’s great novel  Auslöschung  ([ Extinction ] 1986) on the last will of a wealthy family in the aftermath of Austrian fascism. The paper examines the juridical and poetic dimensions of Bernhard’s inheritance writings – beginning with the conflicts around Thomas Bernhard’s own last will, which prohibits all performances of his plays in Austria.

Destructive Legacies: Thomas Bernhard’s Literary Critique of Inheritance