Lausitz Labor #2

About the production

The Lausitz Labor 2025 will take four festival productions as starting points for discussions: »Sonnet Factory«, »Othello / The Strangers«, »HERE« and »Müller & Müller«. On Saturday, our lab guests will focus their thoughts on the plays » Othello / The Strangers « and »Sonnet Factory«. 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.

10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

War, Post-War, Traumas

The traumatised stranger Othello from Shakespeare's play is a returnee marked by inner conflicts and wounds. The structural change in Lusatia has also triggered profound upheavals on both an individual and collective level. The analogy between Shakespeare's tragic hero and the region may seem contrived. However, it is not aimed at a comparable experience – here war, there fundamental structural change – but rather at structural similarities in far-reaching processes of change and the associated internal and external conflicts.

Where and how do emotional and social upheavals manifest themselves in personal crises and structural change?  What are the traces and political consequences – both individual and collective – of upheavals that so deeply shake the reality of people's lives?

These and other related questions will be discussed by literary scholar Johannes Lehmann and philosopher Klaus Theweleit on Saturday morning.

Speakers

Klaus Theweleit

Johannes Lehmann

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The Language of Poetry: Self-Reference and Perception of the World

Saturday afternoon is dedicated to poetry. Poetry is generally regarded as a condensed form of self-reference and perception of the world. What is the relationship between the lyrical self and its audience and what significance do individual stories have for the collective? To what extent can an individual assume a spokesperson position for a majority? Is there a lyrical ‘we’? Can poetry and lyrical language articulate a shared sense of humanity that is not evident in everyday language?

The literary scholar Sandra Richter and the poet Monika Rinck will address the questions of the lyrical »I« and the diverse translation possibilities of poetry – across time, across languages, in their cultural interpretations.

Speakers

Sandra Richter

Monika Rinck

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.

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

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