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On Rules and Monsters
This congress and festival will address the theme of horror as a genre which not only continues to spawn aesthetic and narrative innovations primarily in film and literature, but also valuable material for social-scientific analyses. Artistic...
Raoul Schrott: The First Earth
Never before have we had so much knowledge about humans and the universe at our disposal. Yet the larger the heap of data becomes, the less we understand. We know that the ancient world-creation myths are not true – but we have no other story to...
Jean Paul. Universe of Ink
In commemoration of Jean Paul’s 250th anniversary in 2013, this project presented the first major solo exhibition featuring the German poet’s extensive oeuvre. In cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the...
Double Life
Die Ausstellung entwarf ein facettenreiches Bild des literarischen Lebens in West- und Ostdeutschland im ersten Jahrzehnt nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Die Gründungsphase der literarischen Öffentlichkeit nach 1945 stand im Zeichen der Utopie...
Disintegration
What is the common denominator of Jewish identity? Are Jews a religious community, an ethnic group or perhaps a group of victims? The congress at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin wished to explore these questions and created a space of...
The “Eternauta” Legend
Héctor Germán Oesterheld’s “El Eternauta” from 1956 was one of the most famous comic series in Argentina. As a writer and publisher, Oesterheld contributed to making the genre appealing to a wide segment of the country’s adult readers in the 1950s...
The Oil of the 21st Century
Artistic directors: Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert, Diana McCarty Artists: Rasmus Fleischer (SE), Jon Johansen (USA), Paul Keller (NL), Steve Kurtz (USA), Lawrenve Linang (IN), Courtney Love (USA), Eva Mattes (IT), Kobe Matthys (BE), Ariane Müller,...
The new visibility of death
The current debate surrounding "aid in dying", cemetery regulations or burial laws exemplifies how the attitude toward death has changed in Western cultures. It appears as if modern Western culture is currently developing a new system of symbols and...
Sensibilities
Personal experience plays a central role in the work of every writer, as it does in the reception of literature: How relevant, for example, is one’s sexual orientation for understanding and discussing texts? How are biographical experiences expressed...
Digitalization of the LCB Audio Archive
Bereits seit 1963 lädt das Literarische Colloquium Berlin (LCB) Autoren zu Lesungen und Diskussionen an den Wannsee in der Absicht ein, das Zusammenwachsen von Europa durch geistigen Austausch zu fördern - unter ihnen Schriftsteller von europäischem...