Welt – Literatur – Stadt

Baden-Baden is considered one of the most traditional and beautiful spa towns in the world. Intellectuals and artists from all over the world have been meeting here since the early 19th century. The small town on the River Oos not only becomes a real hub in the web of biographies; the texts (ego documents, fiction, non-fiction) written in this context are also interwoven across space and time, forming their own metatext. The 'Baden-Baden Texts' reflect the pan-European political, cultural and literary-historical developments of the time far beyond regional references. The two volumes follow these diverse traces in chronological and thematic perspective.