Wende-Erfahrung zwischen Utopie und Dystopie in Lutz Seilers Romanen
The German Reunification Experience between Utopia and Dystopia in Lutz Seiler’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: The work of one of the most important contemporary German authors, Lutz Seiler, is often viewed against the backdrop of the German Reunion of 1989/1990. Both the poetic childhood landscapes of the uranium-contaminated former GDR areas in his poetry and short prose, and the two heterotopic novel worlds in Kruso (2014) and Stern 111 (2020) seem to permit such a reading. But much more is offered in this literature: a poetic examination of the individual existential and collective experience of the reunification and of their utopian and dystopian manifestations and potentials. How quickly a utopia flips over into a dystopia is shown on the basis of heterotopias in Seiler’s prose.

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