Oswald Egger: Poetic-philosophical lecture at the FU Berlin!

Oswald Egger: Poetic-philosophical lecture at the FU Berlin!

On June 19, 2025, the important writer and professor Oswald Egger will give the seventh Siegfried Unseld Lecture at the Free University of Berlin. Under the title “State Sums”, the event begins at 6:30 p.m., admission opens at 6:00 p.m. in lecture hall 1b of the “Rostlaube”, which is located at Habelschwerdter Allee 45 in Berlin-Dahlem. Admission is free, but registration is required by June 16, 2025 to take part in this artistic highlight. This lecture is a collaboration between the Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) and Suhrkamp Verlag and shows the commitment to promoting dialogue between literature, media and the humanities.

The series invites writers associated with Suhrkamp Verlag every two years, with a focus on the tension between literature and society. In his upcoming lecture, Egger will deal with the transitions between thinking, language and perception. His lecture will be designed as a poetic-philosophical text that emphasizes movement and self-reflection. This discussion is particularly relevant in the context of his previous works, which have received numerous awards, including the 2024 Georg Büchner Prize and the 2019 Ernst Jandl Prize.

The speaker: Oswald Egger

Oswald Egger, born in Lana/South Tyrol in 1963, studied German and philosophy. His prose and poems have been translated into several languages ​​and show an impressive range of forms of expression. He lives and works at the Hombroich rocket station and has been a professor of language and design at the Muthesius Art University in Kiel since 2011. One of his most important literary works is “Discrete Stability” from 2008, which deals with poetry and mathematics and caused a stir in the literary community.

His thinking is described as immemorial, whereby he operates in his own world of form that oscillates between formula and form. The lecture will address intuitive tuning in intonation and the testing of language, while Egger develops non-objective, interwoven worlds in the form of words and forms without words.

Event details and registration

Anyone interested should not miss the event. Registration for the lecture is possible until June 16, 2025. Greetings at the opening will be given by Prof. Dr. Günter M. Ziegler, the President of the Free University of Berlin, and Dr. Jonathan Landgrebe, the publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag. The introduction is given by Prof. Dr. Jutta Müller-Tamm from the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the Free University of Berlin.

The Siegfried Unseld Lecture is an important part of Berlin's cultural and academic landscape, in which the interactions between literature and society are discussed and promoted. Further information about the event can be found on the website Free University of Berlin, the Literary studies Berlin and the Goethe University Frankfurt.