Collage: (top from left) Monika Rinck © Silviu Guiman, Heinz Bude © Nicolas Wefers, Sandra Richter © Anja Bleeser, Johannes Lehmann © private, Isolde Charim © / (bottom from left) Maria Kuberg © private, Lea-Riccarda Prix © Marvin Ester, Jan Völker © Jörg Junge, Katrin Trüstedt © KOPF & KRAGEN FOTOGRAFIE, Klaus Theweleit © private

About the production

Start

11:30 a.m.

End

5:30 p.m.

The Lausitz Labor 2025 will take four festival productions as starting points for discussions: »Sonnet Factory«, »Othello / The Strangers«, »HERE« and »Müller & Müller«. On Friday, our lab guests will focus their thoughts on the play » Othello / The Strangers«. The festival inspiration word »unsbewusst« will also play a special role.

Come along and reflect with us on the festival experiences in a philosophical and socio-critical way.

11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Welcome to the Programme of the Lausitz Labor

Daniel Kühnel

Christoph Menke

Christiane Voss

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

I and We: On the Dialectics of the Social Context

What holds people together? How do the many »I«'s become a collective »we« that is not merely the sum of the individuals and sees itself as an organic, political body? Why should the individual be freer as part of a community than on his/her own? The philosopher and sociologist Heinz Bude invites us to reflect on the limits and possibilities of a community of the many.

Speaker

Heinz Bude

3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Political Affects in Capitalism: Anger, Rage, Resentment

Our society is currently characterised by loss-making events and experiences. This can lead to the spread of political mistrust and emotions such as anger and resentment, which shake the foundations of communities and threaten the project of peaceful coexistence. How do such political affects arise and what can counteract them? What alternatives are there when authoritarian and violent tendencies threaten peaceful coexistence?

Philosopher Isolde Charim and philosopher Jan Völker discuss these important and topical issues together.

Speakers

Isolde Charim

Jan Völker

Special offer for students

For students and doctoral candidates who do not live in Cottbus, we offer accommodation in Cottbus and travel expenses for the entire lab weekend from 29 to 31 August.

Please get in touch with Fulvia Modica: f.modica@lausitz-festival.eu

Free admission

Admission to the Lausitz Labor is free. Visitors do not need a ticket. It is also not necessary to register for the lab.

By bus & train to the event

Why don't you leave your car at home and come to the event by public transport? Click on the button to calculate your route. The destination is already pre-filled in the trip planner.

We owe this service for the Lausitz Festival to the transport associations VVO, VBB and ZVON.

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