Newspaper debates are most vehemently carried on in Germany. This is displayed e.g. by the Fischer controversy, the Historikerstreit or the discussion about Thilo Sarrazin. The master thesis "Was dabattiert wird" (What is being debated) focuses on the newspaper debate triggered off by Günter Grass and his critical poem about Israel "Was gesagt werden muss" (What needs to be said), published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2012. The controversy in the German and Austrian supra-regional daily and weekly newspaper will be itemized and appraised with the help of a discourse analysis. Who sides with Grass and his poem? Which position is taken up by the quality papers and what will the result of the analysis disclose about German culture of debate in general?Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Journalismus, Publizistik, Note: 2, Universität Salzburg (Kommunikationswissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zeitungsdebatten werden nirgends derart heftig geführt wie in Deutschland - das zeigten z.B. die Fischer-Kontroverse, der Historikerstreit oder die Diskussion um Thilo Sarrazin. Die Masterarbeit "Was debattiert wird" nimmt sich der Zeitungsdebatte um das israelkritische Gedicht "Was gesagt werden muss" von Günter Grass an und versucht, in Form einer Diskursanalyse, den Wortstreit in den überregionalen deutschen und österreichischen Tages- und Wochenzeitungen aufzuschlüsseln. Welche Akteure nehmen für Grass Partei, welche Akteure lehnen sein Gedicht ab? Welche Position nehmen die einzelnen Qualitätszeitungen ein, und welche Erkenntnisse werden offengelegt bezüglich der deutschen Debattenkultur?Newspaper debates are most vehemently carried on in Germany. This is displayed e.g. by the Fischer controversy, the Historikerstreit or the discussion about Thilo Sarrazin. The master thesis "Was dabattiert wird" (What is being debated) focuses on the newspaper debate triggered off by Günter Grass and his critical poem about Israel "Was gesagt werden muss" (What needs to be said), published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2012. The controversy in the German and Austrian supra-regional daily and weekly newspaper will be itemized and appraised with the help of a discourse analysis. Who sides with Grass and his poem? Which position is taken up by the quality papers and what will the result of the analysis disclose about German culture of debate in general?