Patrick Eiden-Offe on Peter Bürger

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Patrick Eiden-Offe on Peter Bürger | MERKUR – Zweite Lesung

Patrick Eiden-Offe recommends the essay “Der Alltag, die Allegorie und die Avantgarde” [Everyday Life, Allegory and the Avant-garde] by Peter Bürger, which appeared in Merkur in 1986, for a second reading. Bürger takes up the discourse around postmodernism—not to continue it, but to disrupt it through Joseph Beuys’s art.

The digital MERKUR archive contains more than 11000 texts published since the magazine was founded in 1947. In the video interview series Zweite Lesung [Second Reading], editors Christian Demand and Ekkehard Knörer invite authors, friends, and companions of the magazine to talk about MERKUR texts that particularly stuck in their memory—and which are worth picking up for a second reading.
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