{"title":"Ulf Miehe's Crime Trilogy: From Meta-Noir to Noir Pastiche to Noir Romance","authors":"Martin Rosenstock","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2022.0050","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Ulf Miehe was a singular figure in West German crime fiction. The dominant mode of the genre during this period was the so-called \"Soziokrimi,\" i.e., crime fictions that aimed to analyze the fault lines and dislocations in society. Miehe produced narratives that pursued these questions, but he embedded this agenda in poetically sophisticated texts that engage with the conventions of the genre and reflect on the composition of the texts themselves. This article focuses on Miehe's three crime novels to chart his development as a writer and his attempt to sketch out a resolution to Germany's historical trauma.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"517 - 534"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"German Studies Review","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0050","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:Ulf Miehe was a singular figure in West German crime fiction. The dominant mode of the genre during this period was the so-called "Soziokrimi," i.e., crime fictions that aimed to analyze the fault lines and dislocations in society. Miehe produced narratives that pursued these questions, but he embedded this agenda in poetically sophisticated texts that engage with the conventions of the genre and reflect on the composition of the texts themselves. This article focuses on Miehe's three crime novels to chart his development as a writer and his attempt to sketch out a resolution to Germany's historical trauma.