ABSTRACT
What is contemporary German literature in the 1990s? Can it be meaningfully reduced to a common denominator? Has a literary reunification taken place along with the reunification of the German state on 3 October 1990? Was good, significant German literature a homogeneous, coherent literature with both a visible and an invisible fabric even prior to reunification, across state boundaries? Or has there been a counter-process to that of state reunification since the turning-point, exemplified by the German-German dispute over Christa Wolf, whereby intellectuals and creative artists of East and West are becoming increasingly at odds with one another?
