Docufiction as a mode of narration in contemporary German literature

该项目旨在对当代德国文学中一种日益重要的叙事模式进行必要的分析，这种模式被称为“纪实小说”。文学景观中的这一最新发展可以被认为是一种在高度虚拟和数字的世界和时代中反思现实概念的美学和伦理方式。由于纪实小说不断地在事实和虚构之间摇摆，它们总是提出一个根本的问题，即在虚构的环境中事实事件的可叙述性。为此，纪实小说同时运用了纪实和虚构的策略，并借助中间、中间和跨中间的方法将它们交织在一起。该项目的目标是通过考虑媒体理论、文化和文学研究以及当代伦理学，系统地调查文学文本中各种形式和功能的文学创作实践。这样，才能最终形成一种当代德国文学的文学叙事模式诗学。

The project aims at an essential analysis of an increasingly significant mode of narration in contemporary German literature that is called ‘docufiction’. This recent development within the literary landscape can be considered both as an aesthetical and ethical way of reflecting on the concept of reality in a highly virtual and digital world and time like the present age. As docufictional novels oscillate constantly between fact and fiction, they always raise the fundamental issue of the narratibility of factual events within a fictional environment. For this purpose docufictional novels use documentary as well as fictional strategies in equal measure and interweave them with the help of intramedial, intermedial and transmedial approaches. The projects goal is to survey the various forms and functions of docufictional practices in literary texts in a systematic way by taking theories of media, cultural and literary studies and contemporary ethics into account. Thus, eventually a poetics of docufictional modes of narration in contemporary German literature can be developed.