Contemporary German crime fiction : a companion A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss classics Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest this volume will cover the essential writers genres and themes of crime fiction written in German. Where necessary and appropriate crime fiction in media other than writing (TV series movies) will be included. Contemporary social and political developments such as gender issues life in a multicultural society and the afterlife of German fascism today play a crucial role in much of recent German crime fiction. A number of contributions to this volume will comment on the literary reflection of these issues in the texts. The goal of the volume is to make available to English speaking audiences to students teachers and to a wider circle of interested readers a series of articles on genres topics authors and texts that will help them understand the scope and depth of German crime fiction its ties to international traditions and also the specificity of the German context its historical development and contemporary situation Frontmatter Preface Contents 1. Introduction: German and International Crime Fiction Kniesche Thomas W. 2. The Beginnings of Swiss Detective Literature: Glauser and Dürrenmatt Vilas Boas Gonçalo 3. Modernity and Melancholia: Austrian Crime Fiction Kniesche Thomas W. 4. The Soziokrimi or Neuer Deutscher Kriminalroman Kniesche Thomas W. 5. Regionalism and Modernism in Recent German Crime Fiction (1990 2015) Vogt Jochen 6. Female Empowerment: Womens Crime Fiction in German Pailer Gaby 7. Crime Fiction as Memory Discourse: Historical Crime Fiction from Germany Kniesche Thomas W. 8. The Legacy of the Third Reich: Reworking the Nazi Past in contemporary German Crime Fiction Beck Sandra 9. Blood Sweat and Fears: Investigating the Other in Contemporary German Crime Fiction Beck Sandra 10. Crime Fiction and the Literary Field in Germany: An Overview Wörtche Thomas 11. Portal to the Humanities: Teaching German Crime Fiction in the American Academy Donahue William Collins Vogt Jochen 12. Contemporary German Crime Fiction Authors Kniesche Thomas W. Wörtche Thomas Vogt Jochen Reimers Kirsten Moraldo Sandro M. Richter Steffen Erb Andreas Ridley Hugh Feldmann Joachim Contemporary German Crime Fiction: A Bibliography Contributors Index