Morgennebel. Das Frühstücksseminar

25 years Literaturhaus. Hovering. A program of contrasts in difficult times
Impossible facts.
On Christian Morgenstern's poems and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's parables
with Daniela Strigl

"They understand very little who only understand what can be explained" is an aphorism by Ebner-Eschenbach. Detached from the realism and rationalism of the era, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's parables and Christian Morgenstern's "nonsense poems" are both highly precise commentaries on the zeitgeist and reflect the poet's serious concerns. As in The Impossible Fact, where Palmström, hit by a car, muses: "And he comes to the conclusion: / The experience was only a dream. / Because, he concludes razor-sharp, / cannot be what must not be." Author and literary critic Daniela Strigl takes us from the dream to the waking state in the first breakfast seminar of the anniversary program "Schweben. A contrasting program in difficult times". Born in Vienna in 1964, the award-winning essayist and literary critic teaches at the University of Vienna, has been a member of numerous important juries and has published books including "Berühmt sein ist nichts. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Eine Biographie" (2016) and "Zum Trotz" in the series "Unruhe bewahren" (2025).

Supported by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, Literature Summer 2026

incl. croissant and coffee