"Zumindest hätte er sich all das gewünscht" : Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in der Heterodiegese

Abstract

The question about what is meant by heterodiesgesis comes with the question, whether heterodiegetic unreliability is possible. As a consequence of the assumption that heterodiegetic narrators first stipulate the fictive world through their speech and hence are omniscient, it has been deduced that these narrators cannot make false statements about the composition of the fictive world a they cannot be unreliabe about what is the fact in the fictive world. In my dissertation I discuss what is meant under the heading heterodiegetic and I discuss the conditions that make heterodiegetic unreliability possible. The second part of the work consists of analyses of different german-speaking works (from Kleist to Polmans) and shows that heterodiegetic unreliability is possible a in an axiological and a mimetic way.