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Lecture by Franziska Kraft, September 6, 2015

Franziska Kraft studied classical philology and German literature at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, the Università degli Studi di Perugia, and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg. Her academic work focuses on Greek and Roman reception in the lyric poetry of Gottfriend Benn. She completed a dissertation on Rilke and Michelangelo.

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Lecture by Christoph König, June 21, 2015

Christoph König is professor of German Literature at the University of Osnabrück and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His research focuses on questions of literary methodology and the historical and disciplinary conditions of interpretation. He has published a number of academic studies in German and French.

LECTURES SCEPTIQUES DES «SONNETS À ORPHÉE» DE RILKE / A SCEPTICAL READING OF RILKE’S “SONNETS TO ORPHEUS”

Christoph König will read from his most recent book,

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Lecture by Jeanne Wagner, April 26, 2015

Jeanne Wagner studied German and French literature at the University of Geneva, where she received a Master’s degree in German Literature with a special emphasis on Swiss literature and culture in 2012. She currently works as a lecturer in comparative literature and is completing a thesis on Rainer Maria Rilke’s late poetry in French and German,

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Lecture by Philippe Albèra, March 1, 2015

Philippe Albèra is professor of music history and theory at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and professor of aesthetics and 20th-century music theory at the Conservatoire de Genève. Founder of Editions Contrechamps, in 2007 he published a collection of texts and essays under the title Sound and Meaning – Essays on the Music of Our Time (Le Son et le Sens –

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