German-Oriental Narration: Richard Faber on Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Wilhelm Hauff and Johann Peter Hebel

In German.

The lecture aims to show how two of the most important German-speaking narrators and two of the major narrative theorists refer back to the Arabic-Islamic tradition, in addition to the Jewish and the Classic Antique context. As the former is usually neglected, the lecture will pay special attention to the Oriental in the strict sense, without denying the fundamental importance of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible for the German-language narration. Especially for storytelling and narrative theory, it is important to keep Lessing’s three rings in mind.