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The article reveals the peculiarities of Reinhard Jirgl’s poetics based on the principles of text-productive violation, anagrammatic aesthetics and performativity. The distinctive feature of R. Jirgl’s idiostyle is fragmentation, breaks and disruptions of narrative, overlapping discourses, refusal of narrative coherence, stratification and (re)combination of story lines. The article shows how the author’s system of innovative writing allows generating new meanings and analyzing social processes. The author’s trilogy “Genealogy of Killing” serves as research material for the study. German-language prose of the early 21st century forces the reader and interpreter to pay more attention to analysing the construction and (de)construction of meanings in the text, to the extralinguistic context, to determining the interdependence of linguistic and social phenomena, and to identifying performative and narrative strategies of utterance. The very format of information presentation can also have a symbolic meaning, when a certain combination of signs implies a semantic divergence of form and content. It should be taken into account that such discrepancies serve as a tool for influencing the cognitive and emotional sphere of the reader, drawing their attention to the complex and contradictory problems of modern reality.