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German Text Crimes: Writers Accused, from the 1950s to the 2000s

Volume editor Tom Cheesman

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German Text Crimes offers new perspectives on scandals and legal actions implicating writers of German literature since the 1950s. Topics range from literary echoes of the â€œHeidegger Affairâ€ to recent incitements to murder businessmen (agents of American neo-liberal power) in works by Rolf Hochhuth and others. GDR songwritersâ€™ cat-and-mouse games with the Stasi; feminist debates on pornography, around works by Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek; controversies over anti-Semitism, around Bernhard Schlinkâ€™s Der Vorleser / The Reader and Martin Walserâ€™s lampooning of the Jewish critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Peter Handkeâ€™s pro-Serbian travelogue; the disputed editing of Ingeborg Bachmannâ€™s NachlaÃŸ; vexed relations between dramatists and directors; (ab)uses of privacy law to â€˜censorâ€™ contemporary fiction: these are among the cases of â€˜text crimesâ€™ discussed. Not all involve codified law, but all test relations between state power, civil society, media industries and artistic license.