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Acknowledgments
This book is a substantially revised version of my PhD thesis, submitted to the University of Freiburg in 2005. First of all, I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik who has supervised my doctoral thesis and provided me with invaluable comments on work in progress. I want to thank her for profound discussions about prisons, metaphors, films, narratological questions, Foucault, Dickens, and other Victorian authors. The discussion climate could not have been better. I also want to thank her for the continuous trust that she has placed in me and my work. This book is dedicated to her on the occasion of her fiftieth birthday.
Second, I am indebted to Prof. Dr. Paul Goetsch and Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmuth Gander for co-examining my thesis, and for making very helpful comments and suggestions.
Third, I would like to thank my colleagues from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) research project, “Law, Norm and Criminalization.” This project analyzes the connections between the creation of norms, the legal punishment of non-normative behavior, and the exclusion of forms of deviance from the norm through discursive means. I want to thank Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmuth Gander, and their teams for most stimulating debates about the situation in real prisons as well as the relationship between prisons and prison narratives.