Giftiges Erbe – Brauchen wir einen Kanon?

How should one deal with a work that is accused of racism, such as Wolfgang Koeppen’s “Tauben im Gras”? Why does “Antigone” in Plain Language become a scandal? And why does a playwright favor the marginalized characters in Ibsen’s Nora in her rewriting?

The author, playwright and Büchner Prize winner Lukas Bärfuss, the Literature Festival and the Münchner Kammerspiele invite you to a dialogue. After a keynote by Leibniz Prize winner Albrecht Koschorke, we will discuss with experts from education, culture and science: What do we want to read? What do we want to see? And who is “we”?

During the panels, theater critics Susanne Burkhardt (Deutschlandfunk) and Elena Philipp (nachtkritik.de) will act as “hecklers”, taking on the audience’s advocacy, demanding specification, concretization and vividness.

Harmony or Domination? The struggle for the canon

A stocktaking. Keynote by Albrecht Koschorke, Professor of Modern German Literature and General Literary Studies, University of Konstanz.

“Antigone speaks” - philology, light language and the craft of over-translation.

Reading: Johanna Kappauf / Conversation with Anne Leichtfuß, translator into light language, and Markus Janka, Professor of Classical Philology / Didactics of Ancient Languages at the LMU

Ibsen’s Nora - Prologue of an Overwriting

Reading & Conversation with playwright Sivan Ben Yishai

Where to put it?

Discussion with Jasmin Blunt, teacher & initiator of the petition against “Tauben im Gras” as compulsory reading, Andrea Geier, professor of literary studies at the University of Trier with a focus on gender and postcolonial studies, Carola Lentz, president of the Goethe-Institut, and Jürgen Kaube, editor FAZ.

Moderation: Lukas Bärfuss & Olivia Ebert (Münchner Kammerspiele)

Click HERE for more info about the Literaturfest.

Photo: Judith Buss

Photo: Judith Buss

Photo: Judith Buss

Photo: Judith Buss

Photo: Judith Buss

Photo: Judith Buss

Photo: Judith Buss

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