The same always different: Lulu, Lu, Pandora, Lolita

The article examinates figures like Lulu and Lolita in literature and film (created by Wedekind, G.W. Pabst, Nabokov or Kubrick) within the context of a history of perception. It is shown that the creation and perception of f igures like Lulu and Lolita are inspired and kept alive by certain myths wh ich are again confirmed by this perception. Creations of the,new woman" suc h as Lulu or Lolita are in a vivid struggle with other contemporary constru ctions of the "new woman" as made by the feminists or the workers' movement . This democratic struggle for the empty place of the,new woman" was only t erminated during fascism. There were only the versions of the "new woman" m ade public by the propaganda institutions.