List of German and foreign language press novels

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The following list names novels that play exclusively or very emphatically in the environment of the press (media) , for example in the editorial offices and publishers of newspapers and magazines . It is about a living and working world that evidently provides particularly attractive, exciting and popular material. The focus is often on the actual or possible influence of the press on politics , economy , society and public opinion , the fight against grievances, the exposure of scandals and the careers and life stories of journalists. Often these books come from authors who were or are still active in journalism . It is not uncommon for the plot to revolve around politics, crime and agents.

Books from other media such as television and radio, short stories, novellas, plays and films are not listed. The list follows the alphabet after the author's last name.

German-language novels

Before 1945

Between 1945 and 1970

  • Hans G. Bentz (1958): Light from across the street. The novel of a great hope. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann
  • Horst Biernath (1955): Of course, it stays between us. Novel of a small town. Munich: Ehrenwirth
  • Bernard von Brentano (1948): The Usedom Sisters. Heidelberg: palladium
  • Max Brod (1968): Prager Tagblatt. Frankfurt am Main / Hamburg: Fischer Bücherei (published as early as 1957 by Herbig in Berlin under "Rebellische Herzen")
  • Hans F. Erb (1958): The editor. Düsseldorf: Progress
  • Rudolf Hagelstange (1969): Old gentlemen's summer. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe
  • Walther von Hollander (1948): Little demons. From the papers of the journalist Ferdinand F.-B. Hamburg: Springer
  • Paul Georg Kaufmann (1967): My wife makes the headlines. Stuttgart: Engelhorn
  • Wolfgang Koeppen (1951): Pigeons in the grass . Stuttgart: Joke and Goverts
  • Heinrich Christian Meier (1957): Elsa Quast. Berlin: Verlag der Nation
  • Egon Strohm (1946): Painful Journey. Stuttgart: German publishing company
  • Martin Walser (1957): Marriages in Philippsburg . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
  • Charles Wassermann (1965): The Journalist. Hamburg: Mosaik Verlag
  • Bruno E. Werner (1949): The galley. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp

After 1970

Foreign language novels

stating the year of the first edition and the publisher of the German translation

literature

  • Evelyn Engesser,: Journalism in Fiction and Reality. A comparison of the image of journalists in literary bestsellers with findings from empirical communicator research. Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag 2005 |
  • Karl d 'Ester: The press and its people in the mirror of poetry. A harvest spanning three centuries. Würzburg: Konrad Triltsch Verlag 1941
  • Walter Hömberg: news poet. Journalism between facts and falsification. In: Navratil, Ute, et al. (Ed.): Media as a mediator of social communication. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag 2002
  • Jutta Jacobi: Journalists in the literary text. Studies on the work of Karl Kraus, Egon Erwin Kisch and Franz Werfel. Frankfurt am Main: Lang 1989
  • Hans Kleinsteuber: Get out of the editorial routine, get on with the murder. Journalists conquer the crime genre or: Why media people are simply the better investigators. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of April 29, 2000, p. 28
  • Volker Lilienthal: When reporters play detective. Commissioner on his own and account: journalists are at the center of a new variety of detective novel. In: Rheinischer Merkur / Christ und Welt, No. 37 of September 9, 1988, p. 18
  • Cordula Nitsch: Journalistic Reality and Fiction. An Empirical Analysis of TV Journalism in German and American Novels (1970-2005). Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag 2011
  • Cecilia von Studnitz: criticism of the journalist. A job description in fiction and reality. Munich: Saur 1983
  • Petra Weber: “Nothing happened, but we have to report.” The journalistic profession in German literature from 1945 to 1995. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 2004
  • Jürgen Wilke : Beyond the day. Journalists as book authors. In: Communicatio Socialis. Issue 2/2008, pp. 171-191, ISSN 0010-3497.