500 Jahre Bauernkrieg. Literarische und politische Fluchtlinien

In the organizer's words:

Lecture, inputs, discussion

With Mareike Schildmann, Dietmar Dath and Enis Maci
Moderated by Patrick Eiden-Offe

500 years ago, on May 15, 1525, one of the most important and cruelest battles of the German Peasants' War raged near Frankenhausen: the climax of the revolt as well as the bloody suppression of the peasants' political and social demands. The Peasants' War has always been a point of reference in literature, prominent for example in Goethe, Gerhart Hauptmann, Berta Lask, Friedrich Wolf - and most recently in Éric Vuillard's literary-historical essay "The War of the Poor". To mark the 500th anniversary, literary scholar Mareike Schildmann will outline the ways in which the Peasants' War was received in literature and highlight selected texts. Afterwards, from 7:30 pm, the focus will be on constellations and continuities of the Peasants' War as a key to understanding the present. Dietmar Dath, who grew up in Breisgau, where the Bundschuh movement had its origins, will question the continued impact of political tensions such as the Müntzer/Luther opposition. And Enis Maci discusses the extent to which the peasant wars of the present are being fought less on fields and hills and more digitally on the internet.