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LitCrit - Literary Criticism in European Dialogue
The close alliance between literature and literary criticism forms the backbone of every literary public forum. Until now, however, this criticism could only function on a national level in newspapers, radio and Internet. In November 2007 this...
Fiction
The writer Ingo Niermann and publisher Mathias Gatza organised an international model project to respond to the challenges of digitalisation which have plunged the book market into a structural crisis. With the introduction of numerous measures, they...
Fellowships at the institute for adavanced study, Berlin
The dialogue between sciences and the arts is hardly ever supported on an institutional basis. Reciprocal influences are only seldom fostered in institutions. On the other hand there are points of contact which demonstrate the extent to which...
Stories of a Society at the Day Zero
Icelandic sagas are among the few original texts of early medieval literature and are unique artworks of Icelandic culture. In contrast to the traditional sagas of Nordic mythology, Icelandic stories possess no fantastic elements. They describe the...
International Literature Exhibitions in Theory and Practice
Literature exhibitions are playing an increasingly important role in the presentation and promotion of literature. Yet how can one design literature exhibitions that appeal to a wide variety of target groups of differing ages and levels of education?...
Hannah Arendt’s Literature
The significant role of literary texts in Hannah Arendt's theoretical writings has received far too little attention. Poetry influenced and formed her political and philosophical theories aimed at revealing ideologically masked truths; in her...
The Undead. Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction
During the three-day congress “The Undead. Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction” at Kampnagel in Hamburg in May 2011, some 80 scholars, researchers and artists gathered in the rooms of a film set to present and discuss the fragile condition between life and...
LiteraTurm 2016
How can film editing influence literature? How can musical techniques be applied to literature? And what happens when text and dance collide? The biennial festival LiteraTurm 2016 was based on the motto “The Borderless Text” which refered to the...
European Dramaturgy in the 21st Century
Today's theatres have to work harder than ever to develop new event formats which attract audiences in a constantly changing cultural and media landscape. At the same time, they are expected to "educate the masses" in order to justify the enormous...
Grandhotel Cosmopolis Peace Conference
In the middle of Augsburg’s Cathedral District, dedicated city residents turned a long-vacant, run-down concrete building from the 1950s, which was originally intended as a standardised refugee facility, into what they now call the “Grandhotel...
