Hat Gott gar nichts mit zu tun

Eine diskursive Ordnung biblischer Intertexte in den Romanen Uwe Johnsons

By (author) Paul Onasch

Book cover: Hat Gott gar nichts mit zu tun

Extent: 660 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Literary Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Johnson-Studien

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2020)

ISBN: 9783847111474

6.34 x 9.25 inches

Price: $125.00

In stock

Im Zentrum der Bibelrezeption Johnsons steht eine doppelte narrative Ethik, in der ethische Komplexe im Medium der Narration reflektiert und zugleich narrativ vorgefuhrt werden.


Uwe Johnson declared at the end of the 1960s that he had lost interest in religion after the Second World War and that he no longer had any religious ties. In contrast, the novels by the Mecklenburg author, from his first novel “Ingrid Babendererde” to the opus magnum “Jahrestage”, bear witness to an extremly productive use of the Bible. The numerous quotations and allusions to the Bible have been comprehensively systematized in this study, transferred into a discursive order and questioned as to their function(s). Against the background of civilisation breakout at Auschwitz, Johnson’s biblical reception focuses on a double narrative ethic, in which ethical complexes are reflected in the medium of narration and at the same time presented in a narrative way.

Dr. Paul Onasch studierte Germanistik, Sozialwissenschaften und evangelische Religion in Rostock und Wien und promovierte 2018 an der Universität Rostock. Von 2016 bis 2019 war er stellvertretender Leiter der Arbeitsstelle Ernst Barlach-Briefedition.

  • By (author) Paul Onasch