Gächter, YvonneOrtner, HeikeSchwarz, ClaudiaWiesinger, AndreasOrtner, Heike2023-08-222023-08-222008https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21024This essay deals with fanfiction as a blend of highly individual narrative necessities on the one hand and aesthetic as well as communicative norms negotiated within an online community on the other hand. Two points are being made: First, the term fanfiction comprises heterogeneous texts that use virtually all narrative devices deployed by the so-called canon. At the same time the authors develop new genres, modes of narration and textual models which are only comprehensible through acknowledging the peculiar dynamics of online Storytelling. Second, the special forms of meta-communication within the fanfiction community have major influences not only on what kinds of stories are told and on the way they are told but also on the very existence of fanfiction. These claims are illustrated by fanfiction based on the Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling.deuIn Copyrightfanfictionstoriesnarrationonline communitynovel80030010.25969/mediarep/19812978-3-902571-81-6