Matthias Schwartz: “Meister der Wissenschaftsphantastik?” Zur Rezeption von Laßwitz und Meyrink im späten Zarenreich und in der frühen Sowjetunion

Venue: University of Wrocław, Department of German Studies, pl. Biskupa Nankiera 15 B, 50-140 Wrocław, Poland

Research project(s): World Fiction, Post/Socialist

Lecture as part of the conference “Die Zeit der entfesselten Phantasie. Literarische Laboratorien: Kurd Laßwitz und Gustav Meyrink” at the University of Wrocław, 18–19 Sep 2026

Slavist and historian Matthias Schwartz is deputy director of the ZfL and co-coordinator of the program area World Literature. He is head of the projects World Fiction, Post/Socialist. Eastern European Literatures and Cultures and Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe.