Dichtung und Wahrheit – und Recht

Art and literature are seismographs: they sense changes. And often they are ahead of their time and anticipate new truths. This volume attempts to show the significance of such artistic advances in knowledge and perception for the study of law by means of examples. The articles by nine authors collected here range from an introduction to the thematic connection of poetry, truth and law to an analysis of works of William Shakespeare, Charles Reade, Alexander Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin, George Orwell, Peter Kurczek, Ingeborg Bachmann, an excerpt from the novel "Justizpalast" by Petra Morsbach and a study on the TV crime series „Tatort“. With contributions by Dr. Katrin Becker, Dr. Hendrik Buhl, Prof. Dr. Walter Koschmal, Petra Morsbach, Prof. Dr. Franz Reimer, Prof. Dr. Edward Schramm, Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer, Dr. Smaro Tassi and Prof. Dr. Tonio Walter.