The motif of the doppelgänger has been present in literature and the visual arts, but also, more or less concealed, in music, from classical antiquity until today and may manifest itself in the most various forms, dependent on genre, epoch, and culture. This has led criticism to consider the motif of the doppelgänger as a genre in its own right and to propose, especially during the last years, numerous classifications of the ways in which this psychological and anthropological phenomenon is treated in the arts. In the present study I have concentrated my attention on creations in which the doppelgänger represents the disturbing aspects of the hero’s ego. This motif was especially prominent in German late romanticism and has considerably spread during the last decades in cinematography and in fantastic literature. Though there exists a large amount of criticism on the motif of the doppelgänger, what has hardly been analyzed up to now is the role of the characters’ and their doppelgängers’ names. Therefore the aim of my study was to exemplify by means of numerous examples from antiquity until present times the role the proper name has played in literature and other arts dedicated to the theme of the doppelgänger.

Die Arbeit untersucht verschiedene Formen von Figurenrede in narrativen Texten. Als Untersuchungskorpus dienen deutsche und englische Romane und Kurzgeschichten und ihre jeweiligen Übersetzungen. An Hand verschiedener Merkmalsbereiche wird untersucht, wie die Rede von Figuren in narrativen Texten dargestellt wird, welche Unterschiede es zwischen den verschiedenen Darstellungsformen gibt und welchen Wirkung die verschiedenen Formen erzielen. So wird zuerst ein Blick auf die Verbindung zwischen der Figurenrede und dem Erzähltext geworfen. Hier spielen redeeinleitende Verben wie auch syntaktische Kriterien eine Rolle. Danach werden in einem weiteren Teil die Äußerungen der Figuren an sich genauer untersucht. Die Verwendung von Modus- und Tempusformen und Personalpronomina kommt hier ebenso zur Sprache wie die verschiedenartige Verwendung von Lokal- und Temporaldeiktika und der Gebrauch von Elementen der gesprochenen Sprache. Ein letzter Teil betrachtet kurz, wie die Verbindung zwischen einzelnen Äußerungen hergestellt wird. Der Vergleich der beiden Sprachen Deutsch und Englisch zeigt sowohl einzelsprachliche Besonderheiten, aber auch Gemeinsamkeiten auf. / The dissertation examines different forms of character speech in narrative literature. The analysis is based on a text korpus that consists of German and English novels and short stories and their respective translations. By means of different areas of characteristics, these narrative texts are examined in regards to how they present the speech and thought of characters, which different forms of character speech exist and how these different forms of character speech differ in their impact on the text. Thus the first aspect analyzed is the connection between the narration and the character speech. Here, speech initiating verbs as well as syntactic criteria play into the analysis. As a second step, the utterance in itself is examined. The use of mode, tense and personal pronouns is important here as well as the differing use of local and temporal deictic terms and the use of elements of spoken language. In a last part, some aspects of the connection between characters’ utterances are analyzed. The comparison between the two languages German and English leads to the detection of distinctive features of the single languages as well as to similarities.

Zugl.: Jena, Univ., Diss., 2009

Paderborn, Universiẗat, Diss., 2007.

Univ., Diss.--Mainz, 2006.

Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2006

Zugl.: Duisburg, Essen, Univ., Diss., 2006

Zugl.: Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 2007 u.d.T.: Forasacco, Denis: Girolamo Savonarola in der deutschen Literatur um 1900

Zugl.: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2004

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2007 / Fälschlich als Bd. 13 der Schriftenreihe bezeichnet