Expected Heroes: Heroic Waiting in German Literature of the Early 20th Century (D06 [B08])

该项目致力于“英雄等待”的星座，即一方面是等待本身的英雄化，另一方面是救世主期望的投射。这种关系将借助类型学进行系统的刻画，并在1900-1939年间的德国文学史研究中加以区分。首先将特别强调英雄主义在文学等待场景中的反映，其次是坚持不懈的英雄主义在多大程度上对现代新的世俗制度做出反应的问题，第三是英雄主义者作为反思现在的手段的作用。

The project is dedicated to the constellation of 'heroic waiting', namely the heroization of waiting itself on the one hand and the projection of messianic expectations on the other. This relationship will be characterized systematically with the help of a typology and differentiated in historical studies on German literature between 1900 and 1939. Special emphasis will be placed first on the reflection of heroic agency in literary waiting scenes, second on the question of the extent to which heroizations of perseverance react to the new temporal regimes of the modern age, and third on the function of the heroic as a means of reflecting on the present.