Publications

Als iconic moments werden in der Intermedialitätsforschung diejenigen Textstellen in narrativer Literatur bezeichnet, die eine starke bildlich-visuelle Qualität aufweisen und sich damit von der narrativen Entwicklung der Erzählung abheben. Ihre ikonische Qualität gewinnen diese Stellen aus textuellen Signalen, die wiedererkennbare Bilder und vertraute Motive der Bild- und visuellen Medienkultur aufgreifen und auf unerwartete Weise modifizieren. ...

This article explores how Europe is depicted in contemporary Antipodean films by drawing on the example of An Angel at my Table (1990), Romulus, My Father (2007), Mr. Pip (2012), and Dead Europe (2012). The comparative case study of these cinematic adaptations shows, first, how (British) literature shapes the protagonists’ encounter with Europe. Second, the author examines whether the films perpetuate or counter the Eurocentric gaze. She argues ...

In her contribution on Peter Weiss’ The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman Inge Arteel looks at the experimental character of this short novel, that was written in the early fifties but not published until 1960. Arteel situates the text in the context of Weiss’ aesthetic and political views and analyses its narrative, generic and medial characteristics. Perception of reality and its description, as well as the tension between observation, ...

This chapter considers the vocal figurations in the radio play Spaltungen (1969) by the Austrian authors Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker. The chapter investigates how the manifestations of these voices connect with the theatrical phenomenon of the chorus within the medium of the radio and the genre of the experimental radio play. After a brief overview of the history of the chorus, especially in the German context of the first half of the ...

In 1968, literary writers Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker, known from their experimental poetry, created the piece of art Fünf Mann Menschen (Five Man Humanity). The witty 14 minute play exploits the stereophonic possibilities of the radio in new surprising ways. In Italy, authors of the ‘neoavanguardia’ showed an interest in translating their literary poetics into a radiophonic one: both Umberto Eco and Edoardo Sanguineti collaborated with ...

Black British literature’s infrequent engagement with European peripheries has largely involved writing back to Europe as imperial centre. Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man (2013) pushes beyond this postcolonial “burden of representation” by focusing on the religious and ethnic conflicts that have plagued one of the most traditionally peripheralized parts of the European continent, South-Eastern Europe or the generic “Balkans”. Forna depicts ...

Die Abstimmung zum Austritt des Vereinigten Königreichs aus der
Europäischen Union am 23. Juni 2016 wurde von Journalisten und politischen
Kommentatoren schnell und übereinstimmend als das Resultat eines postfaktischen
Wahlkampfes interpretiert. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass die
Diskursstruktur des Postfaktischen nur bedingt einen Rahmen liefern kann, um
die Brexit-Abstimmung zu verstehen. In einem ersten ...