This volume follows current developments in contemporary German-language literature. It becomes clear that there have been changes in the literary field since the mid-1990s, not least due to the establishment of a young generation of narrators and approaches to new group formation. Linked to this is, among other things, a ›rehabilitation‹ of narration and an increasing plurality of forms, genres, narrative styles and media networks. Against this background, the articles show the thematic focuses and poetological tendencies in literature after 1989. The referential polarity of the literary and media discourse becomes clear: while the examination of the recent German past remains a prominent subject, new genres such as "pop literature" and "migrant literature" mean that authors are increasingly focusing on sociocultural phenomena of the immediate present in their international context To refer to.