Den Krieg erzählen

Positionen und Poetiken der Darstellung des Jugoslawienkrieges in der deutschen Literatur

By (author) Steffen Hendel

Book cover: Den Krieg erzählen

Extent: 348 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Schriften Des Erich Maria Remarque-Archivs

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2017)

ISBN: 9783847107675

6.34 x 9.33 inches

Price: $82.00

In stock

Die Arbeit untersucht die Debatten, die unter deutschen Intellektuellen und Schriftstellern um ein Deutschland gefuhrt wurden, das nach 1990 wieder zur Kriegsfuhrung und -unterstutzung bereit war. Sie verfolgt die Entstehung ihres neuen, kritischen wie politisch konstruktiven Standpunkts. Der Autor orientiert sich zeitlich an den Debatten uber die Jugoslawienkriege. Zu den behandelten Autoren zahlen u. a. Herta Muller, H. M. Enzensberger, Peter Handke, Christian Kracht, Sibylle Berg, Thomas Meinecke und Juli Zeh.


The consensus of political morale – supposingly learnt after causing two world wars – never to start or to get involved in war again and to devote, from now on, all education and art to it was called into question with German unification 1990. Germany’s renewal of political sovereignty also included finding back to military interventions as an usual instrument of foreign politics: the wars in Yugoslavia offered that opportunity. But how did German intellectuals and writers react to what seemed to turn their concept of political morals upside down? What debates took place, what literature was written, which aesthetical forms were promoted, and how, finally, did the German intellectuals find back being a contributing, responsible part again within the new, re-nationalized German public?

  • By (author) Steffen Hendel