Matthias Aumüller: Räume der Medizin in der DDR-Literatur

In the organizer's words:

Was there a special way of dealing with medicine, the sick and illness in the GDR? In his monograph Medikaler Raum in der erzählenden Literatur der DDR, Matthias Aumüller examines the narration of spaces of medicine - such as the clinic, the doctor's surgery - in literary works by Christa Wolf, Klaus Schlesinger, Werner Heiduczek and Stefan Heym, among others. He examines the significance of settings and changes of location in narrative texts and establishes connections between spatial dramaturgy and contemporary historical background. Aumüller also develops a historical perspective from the 1950s to the 1980s, from tuberculosis to alcoholism in the GDR.

Moderation: Marit Heuß and Ringo Rösener

Event organized by the Thomasius Club, Free admission.