Contemporary German Crime Fiction: A Companion

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Contemporary German Crime Fiction

A Companion

Edited by: Thomas W. Kniesche

Volume 7 in the series Companions to Contemporary German Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110426601

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About this book

A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss “classics” Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors, such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest, this volume will cover the essential writers, genres, and themes of crime fiction written in German. Where necessary and appropriate, crime fiction in media other than writing (TV-series, movies) will be included. Contemporary social and political developments, such as gender issues, life in a multicultural society, and the afterlife of German fascism today, play a crucial role in much of recent German crime fiction. A number of contributions to this volume will comment on the literary reflection of these issues in the texts. The goal of the volume is to make available to English-speaking audiences, to students, teachers and to a wider circle of interested readers, a series of articles on genres, topics, authors, and texts that will help them understand the scope and depth of German crime fiction, its ties to international traditions and also the specificity of the German context, its historical development and contemporary situation.

Provides an in-depth analysis of recent trends in German crime fiction
Covers a wide variety of authors and texts
Written by experts in the field of crime fiction in German

Author / Editor information

Thomas W. Kniesche, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Introduction: German and International Crime Fiction Thomas W. Kniesche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 The Beginnings of Swiss Detective Literature: Glauser and Dürrenmatt Gonçalo Vilas-Boas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3 Modernity and Melancholia: Austrian Crime Fiction Thomas W. Kniesche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4 The Soziokrimi or Neuer Deutscher Kriminalroman Thomas W. Kniesche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5 Regionalism and Modernism in Recent German Crime Fiction (1990–2015) Jochen Vogt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6 Female Empowerment: Women’s Crime Fiction in German Gaby Pailer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7 Crime Fiction as Memory Discourse: Historical Crime Fiction from Germany Thomas W. Kniesche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8 The Legacy of the ‘Third Reich’: Reworking the Nazi Past in Contemporary German Crime Fiction Sandra Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
9 Blood, Sweat and Fears: Investigating the Other in Contemporary German Crime Fiction Sandra Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
10 Crime Fiction and the Literary Field in Germany: An Overview Thomas Wörtche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
11 Portal to the Humanities: Teaching German Crime Fiction in the American Academy William Collins Donahue and Jochen Vogt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
12 Contemporary German Crime Fiction Authors Thomas W. Kniesche, Thomas Wörtche, Jochen Vogt, Kirsten Reimers, Sandro M. Moraldo, Steffen Richter, Andreas Erb, Hugh Ridley and Joachim Feldmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Contemporary German Crime Fiction: A Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Professors and students of German literary and cultural studies; readers of contemporary crime fiction
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 336
Keywords: German crime fiction; Contemporary German Literature; Popular Culture

eBook

Published: October 21, 2019
ISBN: 9783110426601

Paperback

Published: October 21, 2019
ISBN: 9783110426557