Annette Kolb Society
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Stauffer with Prof. Dr. Waldemar Fromm (LMU Munich) and Prof. Dr. Michael Pilz (University of Innsbruck)
On 3 February 2025, the 155th anniversary of the author's birth, the Annette Kolb Society was founded at the Literaturhaus München. The aim of this society is to ensure greater appreciation and engagement with Annette Kolb's work in the future and to promote research related to the author and her time.
Address
Annette Kolb-Gesellschaft,
c/o Stiftung Literaturhaus,
Salvatorplatz 1, D-80333 Munich, Germany
email: AnnetteKolbGesellschaft@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Symposium "Annette Kolb's Networks"
On 20 and 21 November 2025, a conference on the topic of ‘Annette Kolb's Networks’ ("Annette Kolbs Netzwerke") took place in Munich.
From the programme: ‘The life and work of Annette Kolb (1870-1967) are exemplary of the intellectual positions of her time. Her work remains highly relevant today, even though it has received comparatively little attention. The symposium ’Annette Kolb's Networks' aims to bring the author back into the spotlight.
Throughout her life, Annette Kolb emphasised a European perspective, took a firm stand against militarism as a pacifist, opposed National Socialism from exile, and returned from exile in New York after 1945, first to Paris and later to Munich. In this respect, the life and work of this European ‘femme de lettres’ (Sigrid Bauschinger) offer sufficient connections to current questions in literary and cultural studies.
More information about the programme and the participants of the symposium can be found in the flyer.
