Interventionist Writing (English)

This research project examines literary and journalistic writing interventions linked to demands for social transformation. It takes German-language 20th century literature as its subject matter, while reflecting upon and revising the artistic repertoire of forms. As a result of changes in the industrial working environment that led to a fundamental reflection on the social space of literature in the Weimar Republic (or its situatedness), literature between 1930 and 1970 followed on from the historical literary avant-garde, with the additional elaboration of new dynamics of intervention. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brokoff talks about this in the interview.