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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)
As part of the Poetik-Kolleg Erlangen, Daniela Dröscher will read from her latest autofictional novel "Lügen über meine Mutter" (Lies About My Mother). Here she tells the story of a family in Hunsrück in the 1980s from the dual perspective of the little girl and the adult woman, of her father w...
The essay collection accompanying the 2024 conference “All Rational? The Human Factor in Media Organizations” of DGPuK‘s Media Economics Section has been published open access.
Our PI Svenja Hagenhoff’s article examines the inconsistencies and challenges of regulating the media system in Germany...
Supported by the RTG and Vinzl-Stiftung, the conference “The Question of LIterary Value” will take place at FAU on June 20 and 21, with contributions by our PI Antje Kley and our associate member Gerold Sedlmayr. For further information please consult the conference program.
On May 26, the film “Roter Himmel” by Christian Petzold will be shown as part of the third 'Energiewende Festival' at the Filmhaus Nürnberg at 6 p.m. A panel discussion presented by Dr. Antonia Villinger (FAU) on the topics of society, climate and the future with Alina Boy (Cologne), Prof. Dr. Antj...
The lecture series "Freedom of Expression. Culture Wars about a Human Right” by the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) at FAU with contributions from our PIs Christian Schicha, Aida Bosch and Antje Kley starts on May 14. The lecture will take place every Wednesday at 6.15 pm in the ...
