Matthias Schwartz: Titanische Leidenschaften, oder: Eine Milliarde Jahre vor dem Weltuntergang. Wie die Urzeit in die sowjetische Science-Fiction geriet

Venue: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Philologicum, Ludwigstraße 25, 80539 Munich

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

Lecture as part of the workshop “Nach der Urzeit sehen. Texte, Bilder, Räume” organized by the Institute of Slavic Philology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 12–13 Jun 2025

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.