Köpfe und Ideen 2021
At the beginning of this academic year we were very pleased that – despite the pandemic, which had preoccupied the world for half a year – almost all the Fellows slated for 2020/2021 had indeed come to Berlin. We proceeded in all caution – keeping our distance, wearing masks, continuous ventilation, air purifiers, limits to the number of people per room – while being cautiously optimistic that after a tightening of safety measures, at latest in the spring, the much-vaunted and frequently promised relaxations would also revive the Kolleg’s social and scholarly life. This confidence was still shared by Fellows and staff alike even when gigantic two-person luncheon tables were no longer allowed. The institute that was supposed to be a place of “unanticipated encounters” (see
Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, no. XXXX) necessarily became a place to avoid encounters. Around lunchtime one could see individual Fellows, with their “take-out food” from our restaurant, heading back to their offices where they would fortify themselves for the next videoconference or simply the solitary continuation of their work.
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“At the moment I’m collecting entire classes of bad taste”
Ulrich Raulff in an interview with Stephan Schlak
June 2021
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Analyzing the Aphorism
A conversation between Fellow 2018/2019 Juliane Vogel and Permanent Fellow Christoph Möllers
April 2021
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