The number of literature events increased sharply during the 1990s and early 2000s. New formats, including poetry slams and author collective performances [Lesebühnen], became prominent, alongside classic author readings. ...

German dime novels (in German: Romanhefte) are a rare opportunity for scholars of German literature, to study their serial narrative forms and variants. In the past the German research only focused on the didactically and ...

In the age of digitalization, numerous actors take part in the literary field that previously only played a role as a “quiet consumer”. Many of them organize themselves in writing forums, where they publish their texts and ...

The study explores the role and importance of aesthetic literary values in the jury discussions of the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize. Aesthetic value is a topic of considerable controversy in contemporary literary theory. The ...

Literary prizes are a phenomenon of twentieth century. Notably, they have become vastly numerous in German speaking area in the course of the last four decades. Extensive research over several years has shown that for ...

This dissertation points out the prominent meaning of vagueness as an epoch-making means of constituting texts, one which is used to operate beyond national borders. The vague, the inconclusive, ...