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The topic of these deliberations is the drama Die Schattenlinie by Tankred Dorst. The focus is on the demise oft he fundamental pillars of the literature created by the world based on the metaphysical structure of good and evil, truth and falsehood. That was the enclosed world, which was reflected in the unity of action, space, time, subject, thinking, family etc. Die Schattenlinie illustrates the transition to the postmodernist world, with its vanishing center being replaced with ‚differance‘ (Derrida). Polarization and the antithesis of values have lost their old grandeur. The unrelenting dominance of abstract logic, plan, progress and constraint of tradition have become a seemingly perfect structure since they do not fulfill the ambitions of modern-day varieties of life. Thinking as an image oft he world in its casual and linear dimension has lost a cognitive value. Dorst’s drama encompasses many parallel realities, many worlds, with events taking place simultaneously.