Representing Television under Communism

Despite the expanding presence of smartphone and Internet cults, television remains an important source of information and entertainment. How do different arts such as literature or photography react to television? What stories are told by television, and in retrospect by socialist television in the 1970s-1980s?

Public Event: Thursday, 6 June 2019, Y 326, 15:00

Maria Kapajeva (Estonia/UK), book presentation: You can call him another man

Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria): Fish on Wednesday, Russian TV on Friday. Our TV Bildungsroman in the 70s – 80s

Ralf Beckord (Theater Konstanz) reads from the novel “Physik der Schwermut”

Supported by the Zukunftskolleg, “Transfer Lehre”, International Office