The study analyses the pop literature of the 1990s - a much-discussed subject in cultural and
media studies - taking into account the previous research: The work consistently assumes that
pop literature originally is the result of a publicly negotiated aesthetic-political reception
pattern which itself is a result of the normalization-discourse after German reunification. It
shows how feuilleton - under consideration of the reformed national self-image - brings forth
the idea of a new coherent literary era appearance after 1989 90 in the literary field on
which then the scientific reception builds up on when it analyses the era of pop literature as
a literary phenomenon. In feuilleton and literature the relevant discourse participants are
systematically questioned in terms of their contribution to the construction of a 'new spirit'.
Furthermore the patterns of interpretation and discussion are analysed which elate the end of
critical solicitousness with the social conditions to the central content of the prevailing
zeitgeist and the pop literature of the 1990s to the literary appeal of precisely this
zeitgeist.
