Bewahrende Transformation durch Ironie und Selbstreflexivität : Heiligkeit bei Monique Schwitter und Sibylle Lewitscharoff

Kurzfassung/Abstract

Contemporary German-language literature increasingly deals with religious topics again – but in a transformed way. Based on Hartmut Böhme’s tension-rich and modeling concept of transformation and aligned with Marcel Gauchet’s thesis that the religious does not disappear but transforms, the essay shows how, in Sibylle Lewitscharoff's novel Apostoloff (2009) and Monique Schwitters’ novel Eins im Andern (2015), holiness, which seems strange in a secularized environment, is transformed by means of ironized apostle figures and self-reflexive elements. It is a preserving form of irony that allows fundamental and ultimate experiences, such as love, death, and the hope for an after, to be negotiated in a reflectiveand open way.