The study deals with the different positioning strategies of a Jewish writer of the 'second generation' in the literary field of German-speaking contemporary literature. These strategies are not primarily in the public appearances of the author, but in their handling of different genres as well as in the intertextual dialogues within the novels. The complementarity of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the literary field with the theory of 'sociopoEtique' of Alain Viala shows how the writing of a Jewish author reacts to and adapts to the changes in the literary field. With reference to the terms 'posture' and 'Ethos' it is also discussed to what extent the author makes a specifically Jewish contribution to the development of strategies of remembering the Third Reich and the Holocaust.