Arno-Schmidt-Tage: Elmar Schenkel »Im Fremden hörbar werden«. Arno Schmidt und seine Rundfunkarbeiten zur fremdsprachigen Literatur/ Über Arno Schmidts frühe Prosa

In the organizer's words:

18:00 Elmar Schenkel "Becoming audible in the foreign". Arno Schmidt and his radio works on foreign-language literature

Radio served Arno Schmidt to develop new forms of engagement with literature, above all in the required polyphony and the objections and contradictions against authorities - but all this with consideration for listeners who wanted to understand and their objections. The lecture will focus primarily on his radio work on English-language and French literature: Excavations, rediscoveries, re-evaluations of the canon here too, combined with questions of translation, especially in the case of James Joyce. On the basis of the foreign, Schmidt also repeatedly comments on his own writing constraints and methods. Last but not least, despite all the literary ivory tower blowing, it is also about the references to the Federal German present, the obdurate cultural-political patriarchy or the rearmament.

20:00 On Arno Schmidt's early prose

In cooperation with the Arno Schmidt Foundation and the Humboldt University of Berlin