Province | The other place of modernity

Thursday, 19 March 2026

10.30
Dr Vera Bachmann (Regensburg)
Welcome and introduction

11.15 - 12.00
PD Dr Tobias Becker (Heidelberg/ Berlin)
Farewell to the provincial oratory? A look back at the old
Federal Republic

12.15 - 13.00
Dr habil Heide Volkening (Greifswald)
Like in a fairy tale? Marieluise Fleißer's province

- Lunch break -

15.00 - 15.45
Christin Krüger M.A. (Berlin)
"Province, Berlin and Province again". Reflecting on the provincial
The provincial in theatre novels of literary modernism

16.00 - 16.45
PD Dr Peter Pohl (Innsbruck)
The village schoolteacher. Literary surveying of the
Educational margins

17.00 Evening lecture
Prof. Dr Marcus Twellmann (Hamburg)
Literature and the provinces, 1970s. With Peter Otto Chotjewitz

- Dinner together -
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Friday, 20 March 2026

9.00 - 9.45
PD Dr Ingo Meyer (Bielefeld)
Excessiveness of representation in Hermann Burger, Einar Schleef and Frank Witzel

10.00 - 10.45
Dr Nina Pilz/Tim Senkbeil (Greifswald)
Potentials of the province in the post-turnaround romance

11.00 - 11.45
Michael Hehl M.A. (Sulzbach-Rosenberg)
The concept of the province in the poetological work of Walter
Höllerer

- Lunch break -

13.15 - 14.00
Dr Sebastian Lederle (Weimar)
Experiments on the first time. On the province as a mode of existence and form of representation in Arnold Stadler

14.15 - 15.00
Prof. Dr Bernhard Dotzler (Regensburg)
Swjosdny Gorodok and other starry towns