Illiteracy refers to the inability to read and write at a functional level. According to studies, around 6.2 million adults in Germany are functional illiterates \u2013 a number that is hardly noticed by society because those affected develop decades-long strategies to hide their condition: They memorize cell phone numbers, ask others to read under the pretense of forgotten glasses, and avoid written material. This secret double life \u2013 everyday life as a permanent performance of normality \u2013 is highly productive literarily. As a special theme in thrillers, illiteracy functions on two levels: as a vulnerability of the main character, who thinks and acts brilliantly despite her limitation, and as a narrative mechanism that creates information asymmetries. Witnesses do not read files, perpetrators leave traces in writing that they cannot check \u2013 dramatic capital arises from an everyday limitation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Analphabetismus bezeichnet die Unf\u00e4higkeit, Lesen und Schreiben auf einem funktionalen Niveau zu beherrschen. In Deutschland sind laut Studien etwa 6,2 Millionen Erwachsene funktionale Analphabeten \u2013 eine Zahl, die gesellschaftlich kaum wahrgenommen wird, weil Betroffene jahrzehntelange Strategien entwickeln, ihren Zustand zu verbergen: Sie nutzen Handynummern auswendig, bitten andere zu lesen unter dem Vorwand vergessener Brillen, vermeiden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3958,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"fact-type":[],"class_list":["post-3959","fact-file","type-fact-file","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"ff_id":"","ff_wiki_type":"Sonderthema","ff_category":"topics","ff_subtype":"","ff_image_url":"","ff_parent_book":"","ff_appereance":[982],"fileimg":3958},"yoast_head":"\n