englischThe idea of ›popularity‹ is rarely traced back beyond the 20th century and into the discourses of the time around or before 1800. Nevertheless, questions of popularity and the popularization of knowledge already form an integral part of Enlightenment debates in the 18th century: My study [...]

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, ein von den Zeitgenossen gefeierter, von der Nachwelt aber vergessener Autor, erzählt in seinem Roman über den "Großmüthigen Feldherrn Arminius" und dessen Frau Thußnelda (1689/90) die frühe "deutsche" Geschichte zur Zeit der Varusschlacht, vordergründig in einer [...]

englischSappho from Lesbos, born in the seventh century BC, was the first canonical female voice in Europe. From antiquity on she was appreciated in art/ artistically received, even if – or perhaps precisely because – her biography lies in the dark and most of her poetry is lost. To this day, the [...]

englischThe book contains the lectures of a Tankred- Dorst-colloquium that took place in 2018 at the University of Bamberg in cooperation with the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Tankred Dorst, who died in 2017, is one of the most important dramatists of post-war literature. The playwright's work [...]