This talk deals with the first person singular as a narrative voice in contemporary German literature. Cases in point will be Emine Sevgi Özdamar (Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum), Anne Rabe (Die Möglichkeit von Glück), and Michael Rutschky (Erfahrungshunger; Gegen Ende). These authors use not only the first person singular but also the second and third person singular to bring a literary ego to life in their texts. In light of Anna Kornbluh’s critique of the use of the „I“ in auto-theory and auto-fiction, I am particularly interested in the ethical implications of the respective decisions. In her study „Immediacy, or, the style of too late capitalism“, Kornbluh argued that autofiction, among other things, was to blame for the fact that it now seems difficult or even impossible to conceive in literary form collective action, heterogeneously composed collectives, and ultimately social cohesion. My talk argues instead that the usage of the first person singular is a multifaceted form of writing that favors the representation of diverse self- and worldviews – even in autofiction.