"People are recognisable by their basic tone" | On feelings and their artistic representation

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Fear and suspicion dilute the air we breathe, says Angela Kraußin her latest book"Das Weltgebäude muss errichtet werden. You want to live somewhere". For the author, who was born in Chemnitz in 1950 and now lives in Leipzig, transformation is still the first path to realisation and emotional empathy is a prerequisite for her writing. And the real work is not the books, but the art of living, the process of becoming aware. "That's what literature is for, to encounter other people directly. That's what we should do in life, but literature can also remind us how all ideology crumbles the moment we meet the other person. For me, that is the political aspect of literature as I write it."

Angela Krauß, member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, talks to Matthias Weichelt, editor-in-chief of the magazine Sinn und Form, in which the author first published in 1986, about feelings in art and literature, the poetic reaction to inner and outer pressures.

The literary journal Sinn und Form has been published by the Akademie der Künste since 1950. The fact that texts could appear here in GDR times that were not allowed to be printed elsewhere (by Volker Braun, Christa Wolf, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Peter Hacks, Christoph Hein, among others) established the legendary reputation of these contributions to literature.

An event organised by the Akademie der Künste Berlin in cooperation with the Gunzenhauser Foundation