The first German-language study on Pier Paolo Pasolini describes his cinematic and literary work from its beginnings in the 1940s to the 1960s as the result of a continuous poetic logic. The novelist, poet, journalist, filmmaker, playwright, and political essayist Pier Paolo Pasolini is one of those authors whose work seems inextricably linked to his biography. Interpretation, work analyses, and historical classification have been and continue to be shaped by a biographical foundation, where coherence and discontinuity, consistency and fragility find their respective explanations. In contrast, Bernhard Gross seeks a historical situating of Pasolini's work, that is, a contextualization within theory, film, and literary history, in which the question of its relevance finds an objective basis. He inquires into the inherent poetic logic.