"[O]ft nur ein schlechterer Ersatz"? *

Chancen und Grenzen der Stimme im Online-Lesungsvideo

Abstract

In the conditions of a global pandemic the literary medium described in this contribution has risen to heights no-one would have thought possible when these thoughts were first drafted. The online literary reading video we are referring to here was a marginal product of literary communication strategies, a bonus authors could treat themselves to but by no means a must. The aim of my contribution is to examine the genuinely intermedial practice of poetry performance clips, for instance on Youtube, in order to show which problems and chances the recording of vocal qualities in a clip may imply.