What does the Internet do for literature?

What does the Internet do for literature? In two special programmes of “Kulturzeit extra” broadcast live from Klagenfurt, 3sat takes the opportunity of the occasion of the “Festival of German-Language Literature” to ask those involved themselves.

This includes authors, publishers and editors who have come to attend the reading competition for the “Bachmann Prize” held by Lake Wörthersee; Roland Reuß, the initiator of the “Heidelberger Appell”; Rüdiger Wischenbart, a critic of traditional publishing strategies, and many more.

Is the “bastion of the analog” crumbling?
What does the Internet do for literature if today the “Bachmann goes Europe” project, for instance, allows for translations of the competition texts in eight languages to be disseminated simultaneously with the readings?

What is the cost of the Internet for literature when at the same time it emerges that usage rights have become as uncertain as they used to be in the heydays of pirate printers in previous centuries? What does Google want, what do the publishing houses want, what do the artists need? What can be achieved through cultural policy today?

3sat: Fällt die “Bastion des Analogen”? [Is the “bastion of the analog” crumbling?]

“Kulturzeit extra” live from Klagenfurt
25 June, around 1 p.m.
26 June, around 1 p.m.
Length of programmes: 30 minutes each

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