Koeppentage 2025: "The writer can be swallowed up by journalism"

In December 2024, two new volumes of the edition of Wolfgang Koeppen's works were published - Volume 11 Romanfragmente and Volume 13 Feuilletons. Both will be presented and discussed as part of a panel discussion. Volume 11 brings together novel fragments, some of which were already announced as novels in discussions and publisher's previews but were never completed by Koeppen. Volume 13 deals with Koeppen's feature articles from the period 1923 to 1948, including his first contributions to the Greifswalder Zeitung and his last texts before his breakthrough as a freelance writer.

The editors of the work edition will take the podium:
Walter Erhart, Professor of German Literature at Bielefeld University, Jörg Döring, Professor of Modern German Philology, Media and Cultural Studies at Siegen University and Hans-Ulrich Treichel, writer and Professor Emeritus at the German Literature Institute at Leipzig University
Eckhard Schumacher, Professor of Modern German Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Greifswald and Director of the Wolfgang Koeppens Archive, will moderate the event.

Admission free, a donation is requested