Abstract
The article asks for the application of the (I) idea of representation (Stellvertretung) in modern (German) literature. Of course, the explicit expression Stellvertretung will be found only in a few works of modern literature, for example in (II) the drama Der Stellvertreter by Rolf Hochhuth and in (III) the novel Feuerland by Arnold Stadler, which both criticize a traditional understanding of representation. Part IV of the article therefore turns to the problem, how far literature itself can be named as a kind of representation. In reference to some reflections on the feature of literature in Robert Musil's novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften a semiotic understanding of representation will be worked out, which could make the idea of representation plausible in a new way.
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