Conference
09:30
Welcome
10:00
Jean-François Laplénie On the situation of German-language gay literature as "small literature": Mario Wirz' texts of the 1990s
10:45
Rebecca Heinrich "I will fight until my last breath." Heroic masculinities in Mario Wirz's autobiographical AIDS stories "Es ist spät, ich kann nicht atmen. A nocturnal report" (1992) and "Biography of a living day" (1994)
11:30
Bernard Banoun On Mario Wirz' early poetry (1982-1985)
Lunch break
14:15
Alexander Graeff Gegen Uwemännernormen - On the topicality of Mario Wirz' work
15:00
Mátyás Dunajcsik Don't let yourself be told - between clichés and authenticity in queer biographies yesterday and today. An encounter with the "nocturnal report" by Mario Wirz
Afterwards
Akademie der Künste, Literature Archive, Robert-Koch-Platz 10:
Guided tour through the Mario Wirz Archive (AdK) with Gabriele Radecke and Carsten Wurm