therness in their many facets and most varied forms have repeatedly come up for discussion on an interdisciplinary level in recent decades. However, the consideration of the interrelationship of motivic, biographical or whatever strange and aesthetic-literary form occupies a rather subordinate position, which is prematurely characterized with the term alienation in also various forms. On the basis of programmatic texts such as individual investigations, this work attempts to show the special reciprocity of literature from abroad and formal possibilities of an aesthetic alienation (keyword: fiction) within selected examples of contemporary German-language literature.