Intermediale Interferenzen. Literatur und Fernsehen

While current research on intermediality mainly deals with the relationship and contact zones between literature and the internet, this article sets out to examine the kind of influence the now „old“ medium television has had on literary production, especially of post-World War II authors, who witnessed the beginnings of television as a mass medium. This article focusses on the history of television from the early 1950s until today, highlighting the different kinds of interference that can be identified as typical of media (white noise and disruptions but also advertising and zapping). It then examines of corpus of literary texts by Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek and the way she uses interferences in her work.