Greta Erdman--n

Wed Jan 12 09:40:41 CST 2000

>From Tim Ware's Hyper Art Pynchon pages:

Erdmann, Margherita (Greta)
364; [German: "erd" = "earth, soil"] German film actress;
mother of Bianca; star of
von Göll's Alpdrucken; worked for von Göll in vaguely
pornographic horror
movies; the "Anti-Dietrich" 394; real name not "Erdmann"
395; in Berlin with
Slothrop, 433; feels abandoned by Slothrop when he returns,
443; married to
Thanatz, 461; murdering Jewish children, 477-78; aka Gretel,
482; Weisse
Sandwüste von Neumexiko ("White Sand Desert of New
Mexico"--perhaps a
reference to nuclear testing in New Mexico) 482; with Max
Schlepzig in Jugend
Herauf! ("Youth Arise!"), 483; with Blicero and Thanatz on
the Heath, 485-88;
mapped on to Katje, 486; 672