Pop, Literature and the “New Sensibility”: Theories, Ways of Writing, Aesthetic Experiments (A06)

• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature) ; General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

The project will examine the era of the “New Sensibility” (ca. 1965-1975). In this period of recent German-language literature, media and theory many writers, film-makers, artists and critics included popular culture and Pop in experimental modes of writing and production as well as in critical discourses. This, however, was regarded as a provocation by the gatekeepers of the cultural and academic establishment, especially by literary critics and scholars – not least because new esteem for the popular threatened to undermine the high/low dichotomy.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Heads: Dr. Jörgen Schäfer; Professor Dr. Georg Stanitzek