Mitschrift revisited: Hans Joachim Schädlichs »Papier und Bleistift« (1971)

Joachim Schädlich's »Papier und Bleistift« (1971) is a story of creation ex scriptura, which, without preconditions, produces, observes and changes a bureaucracy. This written world is added to the real world and the written writing enables transfers between literature, writing and the world. The transcript mode in the present tense splits into a double protocol; a latent algorithm with start and stop rules and recursions, the renunciation of hypotaxis and the narrative metalepses characterize the text and also make it readable in literary history. This leads to a revision of the concept ›Mitschrift‹, first introduced by the author in »In Vertretung. Literarische Mitschriften von Bürokratie zwischen früher Neuzeit und Gegenwart« (2004).