Wie viel Mozart braucht der Mensch?

Like a burning glass, the pandemic has highlighted many threats to our cultural life. In view of the crisis experience, the question is more urgent than ever: How much Mozart does man need? It has long since ceased to be self-evident what Richard von Weizsäcker still formulated as an undoubted finding: "Culture is the spiritual soil that ensures our inner ability to survive." Mozart is both the point of departure and the point of destination for the essays in this book. Of course he stands - beyond all aesthetic pretensions - for cultural values, education, identity. But what value do we attach to art and culture? How does society behave when prosperity is in danger? What does aesthetic experience mean for our orientation? Music can be a (super)food, a refuge, an instance, a mission - if we let it. Nothing less than our self-image is at stake. High-ranking authors explore these questions from different professional perspectives: Isabel Mundry (composer), Peter-André Alt (literary scholar), Thomas Girst (manager), Peter Gülke (musicologist), Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Romance scholar), Christoph Markschies (theologian).