German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedial Perspectives

Uwe Schütte is currently Privatdozent at the University of Göttingen, having worked as a Reader in German in Britain until Brexit. He is the author or (co-)editor of more than 25 books, including a number of volumes on the work and life of W. G. Sebald, as well as on the band Kraftwerk. He is also a contributor to a wide range of German-language national newspapers and literary magazines. His latest publications include W. G. Sebald in Context (2023), The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock (2022), W. G. Sebald. Leben und literarisches Werk (2020) and Kraftwerk. Future Music from Germany (2020).

Contents: German Pop Music in Transmedial Perspectives – David Pattie: Blurring the Modern: Neu!, Kraftwerk, Richter and Motorik – Martin Brady & Helen Hughes: Mixtapes and Cultural Waste(lands): Kraftwerk’s «Radio- Activity» in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Chinese Roulette and Berlin Alexanderplatz, Chris Petit’s Radio On and Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity – Andy Spencer: First World War Commemoration: Einstürzende Neubauten «Do It A Dada» – Patricia Bollschweiler & Anna Lenz: Politik – Provokation – Performance. K.I.Z, Antilopen Gang & Feine Sahne Fischfilet – Tom Smith: Whiteness and Nostalgia: Twenty- First- Century German Representations of Techno’s Beginnings in Berlin and Detroit – German Pop Music in Literary Perspectives – Florian Scherübl: Lyrics? Dichtung? Transmediale Gefüge als Horizont der Sinnproduktion im Pop – Michael Eggers: « Unsere Sprache – sie muß wieder Gesang werden. » Sprachliche und musikalische Romantik im deutschen Progressive Rock: Novalis – Christoph Jürgensen & Antonius Weixler: «I sat down to write a simple story / Which maybe in the end became a song.» Pop/ Musiker als Pop/ Literaten – Uwe Schütte: Neulandvermessung. Eine erste Kartografie der Musikalbum- Roman- Hybride als Innovationsversuch in der Gegenwartsliteratur – Andrew wright Hurley: Electronic Music from East Switzerland (via Germany)? Intermediality in Peter Weber’s Novel Die melodielosen Jahre (2007) – A Practitioner’s Perspective – Hendrik Otremba: Heute ist wieder ein Tag. Poetologische Reflexionen.