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10. December 2024

Counter-reading: Görlitz Conversations on Literature

Prof. Kollmorgen and the author Lukas Rietzschel in a literary discussion

There's always been a good argument about taste and literature, hasn't there? Shortly before the end of the year, the two Görlitz literature lovers Professor Raj Kollmorgen and Lukas Rietzschel take up the cudgels for reading good books. The panelists each bring 2 works with them and invite you to exchange ideas. The readers in the audience will also have their say. You can expect a somewhat different conversation, an attempt at understanding, in what is often a lively and stressful pre-Christmas period for many people.

Among others, the novel "Die schönste Version" by Ruth-Maria Thomas and the non-fiction book "Adieu, Osteuropa. Cultural history of a vanished world" by Jacob Mikanowski.

December 17, 2024 - 6:30 pm

Campus Görlitz, Brückenstraße 1, Blue Box, auditorium

 

Admission is free of charge. A book table of the Comenius bookstore will be on site with the discussed works as well as publications by Lukas Rietzschel.

Lukas Rietzschel

Lukas Rietzschel, born in 1994 in Räckelwitz, lives and works in Görlitz.
He studied political science, German studies and cultural management. His debut novel "Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen" was published in 2018.
The weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT wrote about him: "Lukas Rietzschel is one of the most important young writers in the East."
His work has received numerous awards, most recently the "Text und Sprache" literature prize and the Saxon literature prize.

Raj Kollmorgen

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Raj Kollmorgen is a sociologist and professor for the management of social change at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences.

His research focuses on comparative transformation research, East Germany and German unification, theories of modern societies, innovative regional development and regional structural change in rural areas, demographic change, social inequality, political populism and radicalism.