Introduction: incriminating texts -- with reflections on the justiciability of [Zaimoglu's] Esra and [Biller's] Leyla / Tom Cheesman -- 'Part woodcutter and part charlatan': Tom Paulin's Heidegger / Duncan Large -- Writing wrongs: Ingeborg Bachmann's poetic drafts of the 1960s and their contemporary reception / Aine McMurtry -- Offending the playwright: directors' theatre and the 'Werktreue' debate / David Barnett -- Porn or porNO: approaches to pornography in Elfriede Jelinek's Lust and Charlotte Roche's Feuchtgebiete / Heike Bartel -- Text crimes against the GDR's revolutionary heritage: the differing fates of Wolf Biermann and Wenzel and Mensching / David Robb -- Martin Walser's Tod eines Kritikers: a 'crime' of anti-semitism? / Stuart Parkes -- Justice for Peter Handke? / Karoline von Oppen -- Text crimse in the shadow of the Holocaust: the case of Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser/The reader / Katharina Hall -- Incitements to murder? The killing of businessmen in fiction and drama of the 2000s / Julian Preece.
