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Carmen Elisabeth Puchianu

• Vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, einen weniger besprochenen Aspekt aus dem Werk von Joachim Wittstock aufzugreifen und auf dem Hintergrund des allgemeinen Kontexts rumäniendeutscher Literatur der 70er und 80er Jahre zu analysieren. Vor allem werkpoetologische Aspekte sowie einige Motive und Aufbau- prinzipien seiner Lyrik stehen im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung.
• The present approach deals with a less commented on aspect of the oevre of Joachim Wittstock, primarily known and appreciated for his narrative writings. However Wittstock started his carrier by writing and publishing poetry of a particular kind, closely related to prose. Our approach aims firstly at delineating the difference between traditionally acknowledged poetry and Wittstock’s own concept of poetry. Secondly it deals with the literary background of the 70ies and 80ies, in order to position Wittstock’s poetry into the respective literary and historical context of the time. Thirdly it focuses on the analysis of some texts we consider representative in order to point out the characteristics of his so-called epic poems (“Erzählgedichte”), published at the beginning of the 70ies in the literary magazine Neue Literatur. Finally we deal with four sonnets published in the volume Morgenzug (1988). Our approach ultimately underlines the qualities of Wittstock’s poems, based on similar structures and formal elements as later on his narratives (longer and shorter stories, novels respectively).