Der ›Frauenkrimi‹ in Ost und West

Diskursive Verhandlungen einer Subgattung

Contributions by Sandra Beck Contributions by Mareike Brandtner Contributions by Wolfgang Brylla Contributions by Nikolas Buck Contributions by Tadeusz Cegielski Contributions by Robert Dudziński Contributions by Michael Düring Contributions by Melanie Foik Contributions by Sonja Hartl Contributions by Małgorzata Łuczyk Contributions by Adam Mazurkiewicz Contributions by Lukas Müller Contributions by Kirsten Reimers Contributions by Maike Schmidt Contributions by Laura Schütz Contributions by Arletta Szmorhun Contributions by Fiona Wachberger Contributions by Melanie Wigbers Contributions by Bettina Wild Contributions by Paweł Zimniak Edited by Wolfgang Brylla Edited by Maike Schmidt

Book cover: Der ›Frauenkrimi‹ in Ost und West

Extent: 377 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality, Literary Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(November 2023)

ISBN: 9783847115908

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $82.00

Out of stock

Bis heute werden Frauenkriminalromane in West- und Osteuropa aufgelegt. Diese kriminalliterarische Sonderform unterliegt stetigen Wandlungen.


Women’s crime fiction as a (sub) genre is an invention of literary criticism and the publishing industry of the 1980s. In the 21st century it has almost completely disappeared from publishing agendas. Like other forms of detective fiction, women’s crime fiction went through many stages of development. It tried to serve as a social mouthpiece for women’s issues, it reflected the changing reality, only to finally be recognized as a relic by the feminist debate – as a concept, not as a crime narrative, because today, both in Western and Eastern Europe, women’s crime fiction is still written, however, it isn’t referred to as “feminine”. The purpose of analyzing the examples of women’s crime fiction collected in this volume is to describe the aforementioned (sub)genre.

  • Contributions by Sandra Beck
  • Contributions by Mareike Brandtner
  • Contributions by Wolfgang Brylla
  • Contributions by Nikolas Buck
  • Contributions by Tadeusz Cegielski
  • Contributions by Robert Dudziński
  • Contributions by Michael Düring
  • Contributions by Melanie Foik
  • Contributions by Sonja Hartl
  • Contributions by Małgorzata Łuczyk
  • Contributions by Adam Mazurkiewicz
  • Contributions by Lukas Müller
  • Contributions by Kirsten Reimers
  • Contributions by Maike Schmidt
  • Contributions by Laura Schütz
  • Contributions by Arletta Szmorhun
  • Contributions by Fiona Wachberger
  • Contributions by Melanie Wigbers
  • Contributions by Bettina Wild
  • Contributions by Paweł Zimniak
  • Edited by Wolfgang Brylla
  • Edited by Maike Schmidt