Censorship and Restitution in the Light of State, Semi-State and Private Claims (A01)

• Subject Area: Public Law ; German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: from 2019 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 403589434

The new focus will be, on the one hand, on private and civil society measures, which, although not to be regarded as state censorship, are nevertheless to be seen as "measures of equal effect," and, on the other hand, on violations of personality rights, which are not understood as attacks on real persons in their individuality, but as violations of the rights of ethnic or cultural collectives, i.e., as attacks on persons from the point of view of provenance and affiliation. A keyword here is the highly topical cultural appropriation, the legal and political significance of which needs to be examined, especially with regard to literature.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1385: Law and Literature
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Eric Achermann; Professor Dr. Thomas Gutmann; Professor Dr. Fabian Wittreck