The problem as a catalyst

The Poetics of the Bouillon Cube - on Writing and Reading Literature. Those who want to write must also be able to read: Katja Lange-Müller's reports from her own workshop and about the secrets of great colleagues, from Herman Melville, Johann Peter Hebel, Mark Twain, Heinrich von Kleist to Adolf Endler and Wolfgang Hilbig. The writer Katja Lange-Müller is a stroke of luck for contemporary German literature, as she combines literary brilliance with stunning humor in her books. She achieves this feat equally in the Frankfurt Poetics Lectures, where in 2016 she discusses literary writing, reading literature, her own literary biography, and especially the literary genre of the short story, which she holds in high regard. In doing so, Katja Lange-Müller takes her audience on an equally enlightening journey.