List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations; Introduction: Rethinking Goethe's World Literature through Questions of Authorship; 1. Four Modes of Authorship across the German Twentieth Century; 2. The Exemplary Creator: Modelling Authorship in Post-War West Germany; 3. The Exemplary Pedagogue: Alternative Foundations for Belonging in the GDR ; 4. Mediating Authorship in Berlin and Frankfurt, 1959-1989; 5. After the Death of the Author: The Rise of the Utopian Mode, 1988-2018; 6. New Collaborations: Models of Transnational Authorship in Contemporary German-speaking Europe; In Conversation: Ulrike Draesner: On Creating Contexts for Literature; In Conversation: Olga Martynova on Living in Multiple Literary Worlds; In Conversation: Ulrike Almut Sandig on Collaborating across Media, Genres, and Countries; Bibliography; Index