Graz Lecture on the Art of Writing

What is criticism and what rituals does it fit into? What possibilities of knowledge transfer does the essay offer? Is literary writing an art or a craft? Have the new media created new arts of writing or are they in the process of doing so? What are you bound to when you write a lecture, a talk, a poem, a column, a sketch? How does the genre influence the text? What makes a good thriller? How does the place of future publication affect the text? When does the audience respond in the act of writing? How is your own life told on Facebook, in a blog, in a diary or in an autobiography? What do 300 reader postings make of the article to which they are attached? Does the feuilleton as a classic place for good writing see itself under pressure from outside? The art of writing needs a contemporary formulation: who defines the standards for this?

The publications are based on three public lectures given by the invited guest each summer semester at the Literaturhaus Graz. The Graz Lectures on the Art of Writing are integrated into the teaching program of the Institute of German Studies and related subjects. In two conversatories, the guest discusses the content of his lectures with students, which in turn can be reflected in the published text.

The series is published by Droschl-Verlag in Graz, edited by the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research and the Literaturhaus Graz in cooperation with the Institute of German Studies at the University of Graz.

Editors: Klaus Kastberger, Anne-Kathrin Reulecke