Frisch gepresst Lesung mit Johannes Franzen - Wut und Wertung. Warum wir über Geschmack streiten

In the organizer's words:

Anyone who has ever read a review of their own favorite book knows the outrage that such an attack triggers. People want to defend the novel - and thus also themselves.

The literary scholar Johannes Franzen asks why conflicts over art and canon escalate so violently. He sees arguing about taste as an important cultural technique and brings together a wealth of controversies from the worlds of literature, film and music, from "Madame Bovary" to "Breaking Bad". In an entertaining way, he analyzes why we develop such strong emotions here - and why conflicts about these feelings are important.

Johannes Franzen, born in 1984, publishes in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", the "taz" and on "ZEIT Online", among others.

The event will be moderated by Michael Serrer, Literaturbüro NRW.