Instapoetry

Instapoetry is among the most popular literary phenomena of the present. In just a few years, millions of short to ultra-short lyrics have been published and shared on Instagram. In the battle for attention with countless other texts, the mechanisms of the platform and the usage routines of the users have to be served. The external pressure on literary production is immense. The book explains the production strategies and reception procedures of Instapoetry, explains its development and locates its significance - somewhere between the last stage of decay and the future of poetry. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content. Niels Penke is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of German Studies at the University of Siegen, where he was also coordinator of the Popular Cultures Research Unit from 2015 to 2018.