Agency and Author

German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Rachel J. Halverson, Benjamin D. Schaper

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The image of the solitary author devoting days and nights to writing endless bestselling novels remains an insidious and largely unchallenged myth within German culture. In this exacting examination of the German publishing industry, Agency and Author addresses the financial reality sometimes eclipsed by this idea. Focusing on lesser-known German-language writers and their interactions with the Literaturbetrieb (“literary scene”), Agency and Author explores the ways authors assert creative agency in an increasingly ‘eventized’ literary marketplace. Ranging from the impacts of literary awards to media hate campaigns, this volume spotlights how profoundly the German literary landscape and our understanding of authorship is transforming.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt452 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Antal sidor250
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781805398011

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Rachel J. Halverson is Professor of German and Director of the School of Global Studies at the University of Idaho. A specialist in post-war and post-unification German literature and culture, she has published research on the Historikerstreit, as well as the works of Siegfried Lenz, Jurek Becker, Günter de Bruyn, and Martina Hefter, among others. In addition to journal articles and book chapters, she has co-edited three anthologies: Textual Responses to German Unification (2001) and Berlin: The Symphony Continues (2004), with Carol Anne Costabile-Heming and Kristie Foell; and Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States: The New Millennium (2015), with Costabile-Heming.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Contemporary German-Language Literary Landscape: Aesthetics, Market Forces, VisibilityRachel J. Halverson and Benjamin D. SchaperChapter 1. Refugees en Vogue: Weiter Schreiben and the Transformation of the German Literary LandscapeKarin BauerChapter 2. Poetry, Publisher, Prizes and Performance: Explaining the Success of Poet and Performer Martina HefterRachel J. HalversonChapter 3. Prizes and Prestige in Germany’s Production of Contemporary Literature: The Literary Awards Which Do (Not) Affect the Bestseller ListBethany MorganChapter 4. “Jetzt bin ich im Elfenbeinturm”: On Stefanie Sargnagel’s Underground Literature, Media Hate Campaigns, and the Ingeborg-Bachmann-PreisSarah KoellnerChapter 5. First the Beating, then the Book Deal: Shahak Shapira’s German-Jewish VoiceJonathan Blake FineChapter 6. Writing Precarity in theLiteraturbetrieb: Globalization in Heike Geißler’sSaisonarbeit (2014)Katrina L. NousekChapter 7. Author in the Making: The Balancing Act of Benedict WellsBenjamin D. SchaperChapter 8. Wolf Haas: A Poster Child for the National Brand Austria?Rebecca Wismeg-KammerlanderConclusion: Authors and Agency: Charting the New FrontierBenjamin D. Schaper and Rachel J. Halverson