Wie viel Mozart braucht der Mensch?

Like a magnifying glass, the pandemic has highlighted many threats to our cultural life. In light of this crisis experience, the question arises more urgently than ever: How much Mozart does a person need? It is no longer taken for granted what Richard von Weizsäcker once formulated as an indisputable finding: "Culture is the spiritual soil that secures our inner survival capacity." Mozart serves as both the starting and endpoint for the essays in this book. Of course, he represents cultural values, education, and identity beyond all aesthetic claims. But what value do we assign to art and culture? How does society behave when prosperity is at risk? What does aesthetic experience mean for our orientation? Music can be a (survival) resource, a refuge, an authority, a mandate—if we allow it. It is about nothing less than our self-understanding. Esteemed authors explore these questions from various professional perspectives: Isabel Mundry (composer), Peter-André Alt (literary scholar), Thomas Girst (manager), Peter Gülke (musicologist), Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Romanist), Christoph Markschies (theologian).