Jazz als ein Erinnerungskulturelles Phänomen in der Deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur: ("Abendland" von Michael Köhlmeier und "Die Zukunft der Schönheit" von Friedrich Christian Delius)

Abstract

Contemporary intermedial studies of belles-lettres focus on the interaction between literatureand music, yet do not pay significant attention to the differentiation of music genres that literature refersto. Even less studied are the specific functions of music in literature, i.e. as an important means remembrancewithin modern cultural memory. The paper analyzes literary pieces that represent modern Germanliterature of remembrance (Erinnerungsliteratur) and feature jazz as a phenomenon of the culture of remembrance.Thus, the subject of this study is inter-discourse, intermedial, and intertextual links with jazzart, which help form cultural memory in Michael Köhlmeier’s Occident and in Friedrich Christian Delius’ TheFuture of Beauty. The paper aims at analyzing jazz as the main sound of the 20th century, which foregroundsthe historical concept of a modern human and makes the image more profound. At the same time, it is accentuatedthat jazz is a means of remembrance, which has a strong impact on the creative style of writers who speculate about jazz andits renowned representatives in an autobiographical mode. The research follows the principles of culture studies-based literary criticism,primarily the theory of cultural memory and interdisciplinary study of the link between music and memory, which is actualizedwith the help of intermediality theory concepts

В статье анализируются произведения, которые принадлежат к современной немецкоязычной литературе воспоминаний и в которых в качестве феномена культуры воспоминания фигурирует джаз.