Rudolf Müller. Jetzt Plötzlich. Findungen.

16.03.2026, Mon, 19:30
Rudolf Müller. Now Suddenly. Findings. (Secessions Verlag)
Author reading and discussion in the series: New German Literature

I have nothing to say and I say it. John Cage, Silence.
In fact, only the nothingness comes from me, the white surface. The texts are ruins. Remains of texts that were created by others. But can nothingness become poetry? If there were a poet without language. Perhaps. But the texts don't become denser, they become more open. More permeable.

Rudolf Müller's airy sheets conjure up a little magic, with Hölderlin hooks and name entries, with hidden and eye-catching writing - I like that very much! (Marcel Beyer)

Rudolf Müller, born in Heilbronn in 1951, grew up in Biberach a. d. Riß, went to Cologne to study German and theater studies, where he then worked in the Walther König bookshop. He founded his own bookshop in Düsseldorf in 1989, opening on the birthday of Allen Ginsberg and the anniversary of Franz Kafka's death on June 3. Among other things, he is a juror for the Düsseldorf Literature Prize, on the jury for the Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize, was a member of the New Spanish Books expert group for many years and on the literary advisory board of the state capital Düsseldorf. In 2007 he was on the jury for the German Book Prize and has been a member of the German Book Prize Academy since 2016.

Moderation: Lothar Schröder (Culture Editor RP)