Focus on how the act and process of writing literature involves the writer's thoughts and writing skills and techniques, as well as the media, tools, and technologies through which they write. Read the draft traces of how an author brought a work into being to reconstruct the writing and thought process, reveal the evolution of poetic concepts, and evaluate the role of writing strategies and techniques. Explore the literary manuscript and writing process through the history of writing technologies, media and their ecosystems, as product of the evolution of literary writing as a Kulturtechnik (culture technique / technology).

Look at the history of the discourse around originality, plagiarism, copyright, and remix culture in German literature from the 18th to the 21st century.