„Bilderkampfgebiet“ – Visuelle Repräsentationen von Krieg und Terror in Kathrin Rögglas ,,really ground zero'' und Sabine Grubers ,,Daldossi oder Das Leben des Augenblicks''
“Image warzone” – Visual representation of war and terror in Kathrin Röggla’s 'really ground zero' and Sabine Gruber’s 'Daldossi oder Das Leben des Augenblicks'

Summary/Abstract: When photography becomes a topic in literature, the question of how the processes of visual perception are translated into language automatically gains in importance. To this end, two literary works will be examined below that deal with war, terror, and their aftermath, staging the intermedial relationship between image and text in completely different ways: Kathrin Rögglas’s narrative essay “really ground zero,” published in 2001, which seeks to capture photographically and literarily the events and media discourse in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and Sabine Gruber’s novel ''Daldossi'' oder “Das Leben des Augenblicks,” published in 2016, which explores the moral and aesthetic possibilities and limits of war photography. The aim is to examine the functionalization behind the access to visual material, but also the risks that the integration of visual discourses entails for the medium of literature.

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