Reflection on Norms and Society. Medialisation and Networking of Legal Discourses and Criminal Narratives ca. 1900 and 2000 (A04)

• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature) ; General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies ; Criminology
• Term: from 2019 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403589434

By means of narrative examples of individual crimes, crime literature deals with the scope and shortcomings of societal values and criminal norms – and thereby it challenges the legal discourse. Conversely, criminal law reacts to narratives of crime and conspiracy theories in literature and the media. The subproject analyses how literature and law influence each other on this field and how the underlying reflection on societal norms changes, depending on the media chosen and the historical context.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1385: Law and Literature
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Andreas Blödorn; Dr. Kristina-Maria Kanz, until 6/2023; Professor Dr. Frank Zimmermann