„Ne, das kann ich besser!“

Motive und Bedeutung der Contemporary TV Drama Serie The Mentalist für FanfictionautorInnen

Authors

  • Julia Elena Goldmann Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Abstract

Loners and outsiders, who can be distinguished through excessive consumption of and the knowledge of trivia around a specific cultural product as well as obsessive consumerism of said product – even today the image of fans is a highly stereotyped one. Usually, the reputation of a dedicated fan is not associated with an active, creative producer of cultural capital. In reality, most of them are though – a fact that can easily be shown by a single Google search. This article focuses one form of such fan-productivity: the creation of fan fiction. Fan fictions are user-generated, fictional stories which feature characters of the preferred, popular cultural fan object – here: the The Mentalist-series – and are nowadays posted on appropriate websites. To be more precise, this paper focuses conditions of and motivations for the production of German fan fiction and the consequent publication of said stories on the website www.fanfiktion.de of five authors. It will be underlined that all authors approach the production of fan fiction in a highly organized way even though their stories themselves show a great variety. Furthermore, the importance of fan fiction reviews and comments is essential for all five authors, whose age varies from 13 to 53 years.

Author Biography

Julia Elena Goldmann, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Julia Elena Goldmann begann im Oktober 2009 mit dem Studium der Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg. Während ihres Masterstudiums arbeitete sie als Studienassistentin der Abteilung Kommunikationstheorien und Öffentlichkeiten unter der Leitung von Univ-Prof. Elisabeth Klaus, sowie als Tutorin. Im Oktober 2014 schloss Goldmann ihr Masterstudium mit Auszeichnung ab – ihre Masterarbeit fokussierte die Inszenierung von Kultur, Körper und Geschlecht in Darren Aronofskys Filmen The Wrestler und Black Swan. Seit März 2015 arbeitet sie an ihrer Dissertation, die sich ebenfalls mit Fanfiction befasst.

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Goldmann, J. E. (2015). „Ne, das kann ich besser!“: Motive und Bedeutung der Contemporary TV Drama Serie The Mentalist für FanfictionautorInnen. Global Media Journal - German Edition, 5(1). Retrieved from https://globalmediajournal.de/index.php/gmj/article/view/67