Our points of departure were quite simple. We wanted to include as many interesting poets as we could find from the last fifteen years or so, along with several older, significant, and underrecognized ‘big guns.’ For prose fiction, a considerably broader and denser field, our approach has been diagnostic and investigative: to see who right now and in the past decade may be considered heirs of the ‘grand signeurs’ of postwar German literature.
Genres
Poetry—
Jürgen Becker, Marcel Beyer, Franz Josef Czernin, Ulrike Draesner, Elke Erb, Gerhard Falkner, Matthias Göritz, Durs Grünbein, Rolf Haufs, Hendrik Jackson, Thomas Kling, Barbara Köhler, Uwe Kolbe, Friederike Mayröcker, Helga M. Novak, Brigitte Oleschinski, Albert Ostermaier, Oskar Pastior, Sabine Scho, Raoul Schrott, Lutz Seiler, Michael Speier, Peter Waterhouse
Fiction—
Marcel Beyer, Maxim Biller, Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck, Sherko Fatah, Rainald Goetz, Joachim Helfer, Judith Hermann, Thomas Hettche, Wolfgang Hilbig, Felicitas Hoppe, Wladimir Kaminer, Birgit Kempker, Thomas Lehr, Dagmar Leupold, Thomas Meinecke, Perikles Monioudis, Terézia Mora, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Ulrich Peltzer, Kathrin Röggla, Sabine Scholl, Ingo Schulze, Ruth Schweikert, Antje Strubel, Benjamin von Stuckard-Barre, Yoo Tawada, Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Alissa Walser, Feridun Zaimoglu