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Of Gardens and Sad Elephants – The Poetry of the Border
Dževad Karahasan, the Bosnian writer and winner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2004, comes from Sarajevo where Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish life and culture overlap. In his works, he intensively investigates the...
Fight the Fatigue!
The philosopher Byung-Chul Han, a professor of Philosophy in Karlsruhe, characterizes Western societies as “fatigue societies”. This diagnosis prompted the Literaturhaus Cologne to initiate measures to combat social, political and intellectual...
Wörterbuch des Krieges
"Begriffe erschaffen heißt zumindest, etwas tun." (Deleuze/Guattari) Der neue Krieg, postmoderner Krieg, globaler Krieg - fast jede größere militärische Operation in den letzten 15 Jahren ging einher mit einer Debatte über das vermeintlich neue Wesen...
Wert Urteile - Judging Values
The programme will examine the cultural dimension of legal decisions which accentuate important values in society. The issues placed on the programme's agenda will continue to shape the societal discourse on values in a number of European countries...
Alternating Current
"The boundary was just a widened vein that you could step over. / Like a rubber band, like a playing field for hopscotch or dodge ball." (Lidija Dimkovska, Slovenia | Macedonia) In its project Alternating Current, the Literatur Forum Südwest...
Science as Religion?
Are we seeing a “scientification” of discourse in our politics, society and even everyday life? Does science provide us with legitimation, norms and meaning – something once reserved for religion? Are the sciences becoming a new religion? Ten writers...
ZOO 3000 – The Exploded University
Until recently, human coexistence with animals had received little attention in the research efforts and theories of the social sciences, cultural sciences and humanities . But that is now changing. So-called “zoo politics” or “animal studies” are...
And seek another, always
Hölderlin spent what were probably the happiest weeks of his life with Susette Gontard - the "Diotima" in his poetry - in Driburg in 1796. His stay in Driburg strongly influenced his poetry, and for this reason, this town was the venue for a large...
Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Award
The Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Award encourages young designers to devote time to the theoretical issues of their profession through writing. The prize is awarded to design students and graduates who write an academic paper examining the relationship...