26–28 October 2017

Events Of The Autumn Conference

Europe – but different
The Autumn Conference opens with a poetry festival. For more details on the participating poets, please see the picture gallery.

Male state and female domination.
Jens Bisky (Merck Prize) and Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Freud Prize) in a discussion on “History and Gender in the 18th Century”.

Reading of the Georg Büchner Prize winner 2017
The poet Jan Wagner reads.

Presentation of the Academy Awards
The Georg Büchner Prize, the Sigmund Freud Prize for academic prose and the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism and essay.

Advance ticket sales for the Academy Awards begin on 26 September.