Cummins Speech: Writer Angela Krauss Warns of Technology's Weakening

In the novel essay “Weggekissed” (2002), the author looks at a communications scientist who believes she has discovered people’s confusion. Kraus’s other works include the prose piece “Wie Weiter” (2006), the poetry collection “I Have to Exercise My Heart” (2009), the story “In the Most Beautiful State” (2011), the narrow volume known as “Words in Verses” that is “infused with texts that juxtapose poetry with the author’s childhood images.” Most recently, her prose collection “The World Must Be Built” was published in the spring of 2024. You Want to Live Somewhere.

Kraus is a member of the PEN Germany Center and the Saxon Academy of Arts, and a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Letters Mainz and the Academy of Arts Berlin.

She has already received numerous awards for her work, including the Lessing Prize (1995), the Hermann Lenz Prize (2007), the Wilhelm Müller Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (2013), and the Saxon Literature Prize (2024).

Since 2014, the Lessing Reception in Kamenz has been inviting authors to give a lecture to consider current problems and questions from Lessing's intellectual world. Kamenz is the birthplace of the German Enlightenment poet and playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Krauss gave the eleventh lecture of the “Kamenzer Reden” formula. The lecture was given in the church of St. Annan's Abbey.

Source: MDR KULTUR (Michael Ernst), Reception Office of Lessing-Kamins, Munzinger, City Administration of Kamenz
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