German Text Crimes

Writers Accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-420-3690-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 77, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: German Monitor

German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the “Heidegger Affair” to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hochhuth and others. GDR songwriters’ cat-and-mouse games with the Stasi; feminist debates on pornography, around works by Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek; controversies over anti-Semitism, around Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser / The Reader and Martin Walser’s lampooning of the Jewish critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Peter Handke’s pro-Serbian travelogue; the disputed editing of Ingeborg Bachmann’s Nachlaß; vexed relations between dramatists and directors; (ab)uses of privacy law to ‘censor’ contemporary fiction: these are among the cases of ‘text crimes’ discussed. Not all involve codified law, but all test relations between state power, civil society, media industries and artistic license.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cheesman, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tom Cheesman: Introduction: Incriminating Texts – With Reflections on the Justiciability of Esra and Leyla
Duncan Large: ‘Part Woodcutter and Part Charlatan’: Tom Paulin’s Heidegger
Áine McMurtry: Writing Wrongs: Ingeborg Bachmann’s Poetic Drafts of the 1960s and their Contemporary Reception
David Barnett: Offending the Playwright: Directors’ Theatre and the ‘Werktreue’ Debate
Heike Bartel: Porn or PorNO: Approaches to Pornography in Elfriede Jelinek’s Lust and Charlotte Roche’s Feuchtgebiete
David Robb: Text Crimes against the GDR’s Revolutionary Heritage: The Differing Fates of Wolf Biermann and Wenzel and Mensching
Stuart Parkes: Martin Walser’s Tod eines Kritikers: A ‘Crime’ of Anti-Semitism?
Karoline von Oppen: Justice for Peter Handke?
Katharina Hall: Text Crimes in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Case of Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser/The Reader
Julian Preece: Incitements to Murder? The Killing of Businessmen in Fiction and Drama of the 2000s
Notes on Contributors
Index