The problem as a catalyst

The poetology of the stock cube - about writing and reading literature. Anyone who wants to write must also be able to read: Katja Lange-Müller's reports from her own workshop and on the secrets of her great "colleagues," from Herman Melville, Johann Peter Hebel, Mark Twain, and Heinrich von Kleist to Adolf Endler and Wolfgang Hilbig. The writer Katja Lange-Müller is a stroke of luck for contemporary German literature, because in her books she combines literary brilliance with a dazzling sense of humor. She now achieves this feat in equal measure in the Frankfurt Poetics Lectures, in which she talks in 2016 about literary writing, reading literature, her own literary biography and, above all, about the literary genre of the narrative, which she holds in high esteem. In the process, Katja Lange-Müller takes the audience on an equally instructive wi.