Quo vadis ars?
The situation in the cultural sector has been
described and discussed in numerous interviews, corona diaries,
comments and reports in the past few weeks. Our annotated
collection
of currently 193 sources
gathers voices from different sectors and media.
This creates a picture of the cultural landscape in crisis,
whose temporal transformation can be explored interactively
via a dedicated
tag cloud.
New York’s Arts Shutdown . The Economic Crisis in One Lost Weekend
by Michael Paulson, Elizabeth A. Harris, Graham Bowley (23 Sep 2020)
Original source: New York Times
This feature gives a feeling of the evaporation of the art industry in New York City illustrating the loss with abstracts of 22 (former) art workers and depressing photographs. The shutdown has touched New York in its heart: Before the pandemic, New York state’s arts and cultural sector contributed $120 billion to New York’s economy, or 7.5 percent of the state’s economic output, and employed nearly half a million people. Taxable revenue from performing arts companies fell 85 percent this spring compared to 2019. The perspectives are still dark: T he Broadway theatres remain closed at least until next spring. The Metropolitan Opera has scheduled its reopening for Fall 2021.
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tag New York Theater Tanz USA Schließungen Konzerthäuser Arbeitsplatzverlust Umsatzeinbruch Bankrott All sections Bericht
Martin Meyers Buch »Corona« – die Pandemie wird Literatur
Martin Meyer's book "Corona" - the pandemic becomes literature
by Christoph Leibold, Martin Meyer (19 Jul 2020)
Original source: BR24
The Swiss journalist and longtime NZZ columnist Martin Meyer has published with »Corona« one of the first Corona novels at Kein & Aber publisher. The text was developed from an idea during the lockdown. For the author, the subject of Corona is particularly interesting - as he describes it in an interview - because it asks basic questions and throws the individual back on his or her own ego. The examination of such existential situations is a characteristic of literature.
The old main character Matteo is also in a lockdown. The name of the dis ease that made the state of emergency necessary is not mentioned. Matteo reads epidemic literature to deal with his situation. The literature from the Bible to Albert Camus leads to philosophical activity. Martin Meyer understands the fact that the novel itself is entitled »Corona« as a reference to man as the pride of creation (in German: crown of creation). But the crown, according to Meyer, can also be seen as a crown of thorns, considering how fragile human existence is.
Asked whether literature does not need distance from an event in order to be able to reflect on it, Meyer makes a different claim. Literature can also emerge from personal affection. Read More Read Less
The old main character Matteo is also in a lockdown. The name of the dis ease that made the state of emergency necessary is not mentioned. Matteo reads epidemic literature to deal with his situation. The literature from the Bible to Albert Camus leads to philosophical activity. Martin Meyer understands the fact that the novel itself is entitled »Corona« as a reference to man as the pride of creation (in German: crown of creation). But the crown, according to Meyer, can also be seen as a crown of thorns, considering how fragile human existence is.
Asked whether literature does not need distance from an event in order to be able to reflect on it, Meyer makes a different claim. Literature can also emerge from personal affection. Read More Read Less
tag Corona-Roman Seuchenliteratur Martin Meyer Albert Camus Pest Literature/ Text Interview
»Es gibt in Zeiten der Angst eine große Bereitschaft zum Gehorsam« . Daniel Kehlmann über die Corona-Krise
There is a great willingness to obedience in times of anxiety . Daniel Kehlmann on the Corona crisis
by Daniel Kehlmann, Patrick Bauer (06 May 2020)
Original source: Süddeutsche Zeitung
The German author Daniel Kehlmann experienced the outbreak of the Corona crisis in New York City and then retired to Montauk with his family. In an interview, he talks about his impressions of the crisis, the special politics of images and the consequences of the restrictions on freedom.
tag New York Bilder Buchbranche Freiheitsbeschränkungen Robert-Koch-Institut Literature/ Text Interview
Es gibt sie, wie bald Martin Meyers Erzählung »Corona«, es gibt sie nicht . Der Hype um die Corona-Literatur
It exists, as soon Martin Meyer's novel . The Hype around Corona Literature
by Gerrit Bartels (06 May 2020)
Original source: Tagesspiegel
Do you want to read a Corona novel now? This is the question posed by literary critic Gerrit Bartels in the taz. For two months, one could hardly escape the subject of Corona, and he can hardly imagine enjoying it now in literary adaptation. Especially since the plot of Martin Meyer's story "Corona" promises little that is new. After all, the old bookseller Matteo helps himself in quarantine by reading epidemic literature, as thrashed out by the feuilletons in recent weeks.
The publication of the story prompts Bartels to ask some publishers whether a Corona novel is already planned for the fall, or whether an author has announced that he or she will work on one. Klett-Cotta, Luchterhand, and Kiepenheuer & Witsch have no plans for corona novels. Either they had no corresponding manuscripts on the table or they were afraid they would be outdated by the time they were published. Only the author Joachim Lottmann is writing a current novel on the subject, according to information from KiWi, but it will not be published this year.
Doesn't it take some time to reflect on the topic? With a view to 9/11, he notes that the really good novels on the subject needed a distance of several years. But it doesn't necessarily have to be the case that Corona has to be at the center of a novel. It can also change a narrative being out of focus - as well as the quality criteria of the readers. Read More Read Less
The publication of the story prompts Bartels to ask some publishers whether a Corona novel is already planned for the fall, or whether an author has announced that he or she will work on one. Klett-Cotta, Luchterhand, and Kiepenheuer & Witsch have no plans for corona novels. Either they had no corresponding manuscripts on the table or they were afraid they would be outdated by the time they were published. Only the author Joachim Lottmann is writing a current novel on the subject, according to information from KiWi, but it will not be published this year.
Doesn't it take some time to reflect on the topic? With a view to 9/11, he notes that the really good novels on the subject needed a distance of several years. But it doesn't necessarily have to be the case that Corona has to be at the center of a novel. It can also change a narrative being out of focus - as well as the quality criteria of the readers. Read More Read Less
tag Corona-Roman Seuchenliteratur Qualitätskriterien Martin Meyer Joachim Lottmann 9/11 Literature/ Text Interview
Virus-Lektüre . »Meine Geschichte wird Wirklichkeit«
Virus reading . »My story becomes reality«
by Klaus-Peter Wolf, Maja Ellmenreich (06 Mar 2020)
Original source: Deutschlandfunk
On a reading tour in Switzerland, author Klaus-Peter Wolf fell ill with swine flu in 2009. Helplessly confronted with his own fears, he had to decide in a foreign country how he should act now. This experience occupied him so much that he wrote »Todesbrut«, a thriller about a pandemic. In the spring of 2020 it seems uncanny how close fiction comes to reality. Here, Klaus-Peter Wolf points out that, with a little research, the course of a pandemic could be predicted very well: the failure of the authorities as well as the panic reactions of the populatio n.
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