DAAD Chair in Contemporary Poetics

Marlene Streeruwitz

Topics in Modern German Literature and Poetics: Towards peace. Poetics.

Marlene Streeruwitz is one of the important voices of German speaking literature. Since 1986 she published plays, novels, radioplays and essays. Her work is a philosophical quest for truth and freedom. Using poststructuralist literary theories from the beginning her work was part of the cultural turn of the 90ies of 20th century. She was awarded many prizes. So the Bremer Literaturpreis and the Preis der Literaturhäuser in 2020.

Jenny Erpenbeck

Topics in Modern German Literature and Poetics: Millstones of history: East German writers reflecting hopes, losses, and guilt

Marcel Beyer

Topics in Modern German Literature and Poetics: Creating Reality: From a writer's point of view

Ann Cotten

Topics in Modern German Literature and Poetics: What’s so political about formally innovative poetry? 

Clemens Meyer

Topics in 20th Century German Culture: Auf der Suche nach der deutschen Moderne

Katja Petrowskaja

Poetics & Theory Seminar: The Poetics of Memory

Ilija Trojanow

Poetics & Theory Seminar: The Poetics and Politics of Walking