In her dissertation project, Charlotte Rauth looks at the poetics of contemporary German and English literature, which, according to her guiding thesis, can be understood as response-able by Donna Haraway. Understood in the literal sense as the ability to respond, such an understanding of 'responsibility' sheds light on the narrative position, relationship and attitude of the narrator's voice to its environment and the topics discussed from a narrative theory and philosophical perspective. With reference to other current narrative texts whose cultural-critical concerns are told using documentary, autobiographical, essayistic and fictional methods, a preliminary corpus consisting of Dorothee Elmiger's Aus der Zuckerfabrik (2020), Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2016) and Kim de l'Horizon's Blutbuch (2022) can be questioned as follows: How does the narrative voice stage itself, its surroundings and especially its relationship to it? Not only motifs of response are at the center of the close and distant readings as part of a 'poetics of responsibility', but also the staging of a 'responsive' narrative instance and the construction of their relationships through the order, duration and frequency of individual narrative strands. The aim of the work is to generate information about the narrative composition of the texts, the understanding of the subject and the world created and staged in them, as well as their specific ethical, political and critical implications.