NACHLASSBEWUSSTSEIN IN DER GEGENWARTSLITERATUR: NOTIZEN ZU EINER ARCHIVEXPEDITION IM VORLASS VON DURS GRÜNBEIN.

The present contribution offers a first philological description of Durs Grünbein's 'Vorlass' at the German Literature Archive in Marbach, and examines in particular the palimpsest-like modus operandi of the poet, which aims at documenting every step in the genesis of his texts. Moving from the analysis of different papers from the time before and after Grünbein's literary consecration, the article poses the question of the author's consciousness about his future literary estate ('Nachlassbewusstsein'). Special attention is thereby given to the self-archiving strategies he deploys as well as to the interpretational hints he seems to disseminate in his documents for later philology. Furthermore, the fact that as yet unpublished texts can be found in the 'Vorlässe' of contemporary writers encourages philologists to conceive of the literary estate more widely as a place where not only the past and posthumous, but also the current and anthumous dwell. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]