taz Salon: City of Literature Bremen – What’s that supposed to mean?
taz Salon: City of Literature Bremen – What’s that supposed to mean?
This event is presented by the taz at the Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus Bremen e.V. - Culture, Ecology, Migration. City of Literature Bremen: UNESCO has declared Bremen as the 53rd city in the world as a City of Literature. A great success, especially for a city without an outstanding literary heritage - in which almost one in ten adults is considered functionally illiterate. But: What does Bremen do with it? What follows from the title? Because, even though UNESCO has been awarding it for 20 years, its effect is almost unexplored. And the previous ones…