Publisher's Synopsis
The main focus of the articles is on the strategies and procedures that the warriors pursued in the literary processing of their individual war experiences. Using examples from the Thirty Years 'War to the First World War (including Theodor Körner, Manfred von Richthofen, Gabriel Marcel, Wilhelm Michael Schneider, Ernst Bloch), the authors' authentication strategies as well as the problem of concealing fictionality and the mediality of the texts.