Entlassung der Sprache? Die Überforderung der literarischen Form in der medienextensiven Poetik Rolf Dieter Brinkmanns

In an interview, Klaus Theweleit emphasizes that Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's writing is based on the conviction that technical media such as film and photography capture reality more directly than language. According to Theweleit, this competition leads to the “dismissal” of language. Brinkmann's provocative statement that language is ultimately unimportant seems to confirm this thesis. However, this article shows that Brinkmann's literary practice does not represent a capitulation to technology, but rather develops a transmedial poetics in which stimuli from the media are integrated into a literary concept that focuses on the body.