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What are the social, political, economic and media conditions under which literature emerges? And what effects does literature have on its immediate environments? These are the issues addressed by the Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures.” It aims to examine contemporary literature since 1945, in different languages and cultural contexts, and with regard to changing and fragmenting public spheres. It is characterized in particular by its praxeological concept of literature, which includes socio-cultural contexts, political frameworks, institutional conditions, the literary world and literary life in its analysis. (spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Dirk Niefanger, Prof. Dr. Antje Kley)
The authoritative essay collection “Medienregulierung” (Media Regulation) (edited by Hardy Gundlach, formerly together with Wolfgang Seufert) has been published in its third edition by Nomos.
It includes an article by our PI Svenja Hagenhoff on the protection and exploitation of intellectual pro...
Our post-doctoral fellow Antonia Villinger and our PI Dirk Niefanger participate in the Research Day of the FAU Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology on July 31, 2025 with a panel discussion on science and the climate crisis and a contribution on state poetry in West Germany from 194...
The second volume of the RTG 2806 series »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit / Literature and the Public Sphere« has been published:
Friedrich, Sabine (2025): Semifiktionen. Hybrides Erzählen im digitalen Zeitalter. Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71111-8
For some time now, there has b...
In the recently published essay collection “Schwarze deutsche Literatur” (edited by Jeannette Oholi), our fellow Laura Sturtz and Selma Rezgui have contributed an interview with two central representatives of the black German movement: "Aktivistisch Lesen und Schreiben. Ein Gespräch über Literatur,...
Antonia Villinger has co-edited the special issue “Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy” with Dr. Sinah Theres Kloß (Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn), published in the cultural studies journal Body & Society. The journal examines the public reception and staging of...
