This collected volume examines “intermediality” for the period from 1918 to 1968, a period determined by paradigm changes in the media (photography, film, radio etc) to a particular extent. The papers, on works by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, Thomas Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, Robert Musil, Heiner Müller et al., reveal intermediality as a central "sub-structure" in artistic discourse and force a re-evaluation of established models of works, genres and epochs.