Literary Colloquium in Lübeck

Seminar from the reading tour series »LiteraTour Nord« (Tour of Northern Literature) in the winter semester 2017/18

Within the scope of the Literary Colloquium in Lübeck, the Lübeck Centre for Cultural Studies will again hold a literary seminar in the winter semester 2017/18 on the »LiteraTour Nord« reading tour. Medical school students can take the literary colloquium as an elective subject.

Each winter from October to February, six writers of German contemporary literature go on tour to six different places to read from their new publications. The seminar delves into these current texts, which compete for the LiteraTour award.

The seminar addresses the principles of text analysis to gain insights into how the current literature scene functions. Students work together on the literature: from exploring the literary text (type of text, information on the author, content), to narrative analysis and classifying the texts within contemporary German literature. Moreover, the seminar looks at the context: how writers present themselves during the reading tour, how texts are reviewed by critics, and what criteria could be used for awarding literature prizes.

 

 

Seminar director: Dr. Birte Lipinski

 

The seminar is held each Monday after the lectures, from 6–7:30 pm in the Buddenbrookhaus (Mengstraße 4). Admission to readings is free for seminar participants.

 

Please sign-up for the seminar:

Email: sekretariat@zkfl.uni-luebeck.de

Tel. (0451) 3101 3431

 

 

Seminar dates:

 

Monday, 30 October 2017, Michael Roes:
»Zeithain«

(Reading on 23 October 2017 at 8 pm in the Hugendubel bookstore)

 

Monday, 13 November 2017, Carmen Stephan: »It’s all true«

(Reading on 6 November 2017 at 8 pm in Buddenbrookhaus)

 

Monday, 11 December 2017,
Jochen Schmidt: »Zuckersand«

(Reading on 4 December 2017 at 8 pm in the Hugendubel bookstore)

 

Monday, 15 January 2018, Mariana Leky: »Was man von hier aus sehen kann«

(Reading on 8 January 2018 at 8 pm in Buddenbrookhaus)

Monday, 5 February 2018, Lukas Bärfuss: »Hagard« and Jonas Lüscher: »Kraft«
 

(Session may last longer)

(Readings on 22 and 29 January 2018 at 8 pm in Buddenbrookhaus)