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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)
At the end of October 2025, Maciej Jędrzejewski (University of Warsaw) will be our guest at RTG 2806. On Monday, October 27, 2025, he will speak at the German Studies Colloquium on “Simulakrum und Subversion – Die Popliteratur als ästhetisches Spiegelphänomen und Akteur literarischer Öffentlichkeit...
RTG 2806 has co-organized the lecture series „Zukunft der Demokratie“ (“The Future of Democracy.”) The lectures take place every Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. in the Senate Hall of the Kollegienhaus (Universitätsstraße 15). The series begins on October 14, 2025.
On October 23 and 24, 2025, the conference “Literatur in polarisierten Öffentlichkeiten” (Literature in Polarized Public Spheres) organized by GRK 2806, will take place at ‘Villa an der Schwabach’ in Erlangen. More information in the conference program.
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 utilization of intellectual prop...
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...
