Lesefestival antifaschistische Literatur: Paradigmatische Lektüren antifaschistischer Literatur. Symposium in Kooperation mit dem Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken

Curated by Robin Becker, Dîlan Canan Çakir, Florian Kappeler, Jeannie Moser, and Charlotte Rathjen

9:30 a.m.
Welcome

9:45
Narratives of Antifascist Theater Practices. Asja Lācis’s “Revolutionary Theater in Germany” (Moscow, 1935) in the Context of Soviet Cultural Doctrine.
Presentation and panel discussion with Svetlana Lukanicheva, Mimmi Woisnitza, and Erik Zielke

11:30
Aspects of anti-fascist GDR literature, including works by Anna Seghers, Karl Mundstock, and Fred Wander.
Discussion and conversation with Lukas Betzler, Jonas Haug, Tim Preuß, and Pauline Schubert, moderated by Franziska Haug

2:00 p.m.
Antifascist resistance through aesthetic forms. Paradigmatic readings using contemporary poetry as an example.
Poetry performance with Mesut Bayraktar and Alina Essberger ( nous collective —confrontational literature), followed by a discussion moderated by Nursan Celik and Lisa Jüttner

4:00 p.m.
Didactics, Transnationality, Disorder: New Questions and Observations in the Re-Reading of Antifascist Literature.
Panel discussion with Dîlan Canan Çakir, Stephanie Marx, and Florian Kappeler

5:00 p.m.
(Re-)Claiming Authors and Books: Practices in Anti-Fascist Literary Studies.
Book presentation “Literary and Cultural Policy of the ‘New Right’” with Mareike Gronich and Jeannie Moser

6:00 p.m.
Is There Such a Thing as “Antifascist Literature”? On the Co-optation of Art by Politics.
Mely Kiyak in conversation with Jeannie Moser

The symposium was curated in cooperation with the Working Group on Political Aesthetics and also serves as this year’s annual conference of the Working Group on Political Aesthetics 2026.