What is “Romantic Universal Poetry”? It is a text by
Friedrich Schlegel. In it he writes about how to deal with literature.
[Literature is printed texts such as novels, short stories or poems].
This text changed many things at the time of Romanticism. He described a
new task of literary criticism. [Literary criticism is the review of
literature, for example in newspapers]. Friedrich Schlegel wrote:
“Literary criticism has an important task, namely to reflect on
literature. This reflection will never end, not today and not in the
future.
But what about today? Do the Romantic ideas about literature and
literary criticism also fit into our times? Can we find a new approach
to literature in this way? That is what we want to talk about.
We are holding this discussion with experts from different fields. The
literary scholar Prof. Dr. Tina Hartmann (University of Bayreuth), the
journalist and author Andreas Platthaus (FAZ) and the literary scholar
and theatre critic Prof. Dr. Kai Bremer (University of Osnabrück) will
talk about their perspectives on Romanticism and literary criticism. The
journalist and professor Dr. Stefan Lüddemann will moderate the
discussion.
Admission is free. Registration is not required. This event will be held in German.
Tina Hartmann is a professor at the University of Bayreuth. Her
publications include the standard work Goethes Musiktheater (Tübingen
2004) and Grundlegung einer Librettologie (Berlin, Boston 2017). She is
the editor of the Singspiele and Abhandlungen within the critical
‘Oßmannstedter Ausgabe’ of Christoph Martin Wieland’s works and works
and publishes on literature of the Enlightenment and Idealism,
Human-Animal Studies, gender and diversity in literature, critical canon
research and right-wing spaces in literature and architecture, among
others.
Andreas Platthaus has been an editor in the feuilleton of the F.A.Z.
since 1997 and is responsible for the department of literature and
literary life. Since 1998, he has published several books, most recently
“Lyonel Feininger - Portrait of a Life” in 2021. In 2017, Platthaus was
appointed Chevalier of the French Ordre des arts et des lettres, in
2018 he received the Hessian Culture Prize, and in 2019 he was a Fellow
at the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades.
Kai Bremer is Professor of Early Modern German Literature at the
University of Osnabrück. Other areas of research are Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing and contemporary poetry and drama. A handbook on verse poetry
from antiquity to the present, co-edited by him, is being published
these days. Meanwhile, 20 years ago, he began writing as a theatre
critic about productions of various theatres, especially the theatres in
Bielefeld, Münster and Osnabrück. He has been the author of
“nachtkritik.de” for over 12 years.
Stefan Lüddemann is a culture writer for the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
and honorary professor of German studies at the University of
Osnabrück. He studied German, history, philosophy and art history at the
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, later cultural management at
the FernUniversität Hagen and did his doctorate on “Kunstkritik als
Kommunikation”. He has published books on “Die neue Kunst der
Gesellschaft” (Wiesbaden 2021), “Kultur. Eine Einführung” (Wiesbaden
2019) and “Kulturjournalismus” (Wiesbaden 2015).
