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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...
Berlin conference for European cultural policy
Politics and business make up the core of the European Union's process of unification today. At the same time, culture has so far come up short. The draft of the European Union's Constitutional Convention illustrates this clearly: Culture is only...
A Step Closer
The international writers’ conference 2015 was dedicated to the novelist Navid Kermani, the winner of the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. As a religious studies scholar and orientalist, Kermani has been intensively involved in political...
Reciting Heiner Müller
In what way can or should one recite Heiner Müller's texts? How do time, space and one's voice interact when speaking his texts aloud? The Theatre Institute of Giessen in cooperation with the Université de Paris X, the International Heiner Müller...
Iannis Xenakis: The Electro-Acoustic Works
Research and artistic director: Christoph von Blumröder Artists / participants: Agostino Di Scipio (I), Simon Emmerson (GB), Anastasia Georgaki (GR), James Harley (CA), Sharon Kanach (US/FR), Gérard Pape (FR), Makis Solomos (GR, FR) and others Venue:...
