Titlebook: New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction; Lars Schmeink,Ingo Cornils Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Popular German Science Fiction Film and European Migrationand tastes that have been shaped by global mainstream cinema. To appeal to these tastes, conventional narrative patterns and aesthetics often dominate. This chapter discusses three current SF films; the analysis pays special attention to questions of narrative perspective, spectator address, and the

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White German Agency in the Science Fiction Films , (2010), , (2010), , (2011)e from a cannibal family. Using a critical race theory framework, this chapter situates these genre-driven tales of helplessness, flight, and survival in terms of white German fears over lost agency and the impacts of mass-systemic change after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Apocalyptic Greeneries: Climate, Vegetation, and the End of the Worldons have become a major topic. With renewed attention to the feedback loops between human action, vegetation and climate, Christoph Ransmayr’s . (1995), Christian Kracht’s . (2008) and Valerie Fritsch’s . (2015) deploy climate and vegetation as agents of human futures that are very different to the

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Environmental Destruction and Misogyny in Karen Duve’s Novel on and violence. She showcases how the historical identification of nature as female, which confers to women and nature a status of passivity, is still tangible in contemporary German society. This chapter exposes how the description of sexual violence is used to diagnose and criticize capitalist an

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Coming to Terms with the Present: Critical Theory and Critical Posthumanism in Contemporary German Sevelopments in a landscape marked by converging technologies, technological progress and development, but also political, socioeconomic, social, and cultural transformation. This chapter discusses the intersections between critical posthumanism and critical theory, before embarking on an in-depth an

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A Utopianism That Transcends Books: Dirk C. Fleck’s Ecological Science Fictionical view on the climate crisis through the lens of utopian social theory. Especially, I read the Maeva-trilogy as an adaptation of ‘Equilibrism,’ an ecological ideology influenced by systems theory that wants to change political structures and use already existing sustainable technology to fend off

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