TEXT MATTERS. MATTERS OF TEXT 2026

Monströse Gegenwart

Participatory On-Stage Discussion: Şeyda Kurt × Manuel Raeder

Şeyda Kurt (* 1992), author and journalist, has written about “Radical Tenderness” (2021) and “HATE” (2023) and worked on the Spotify Original podcast “190220 – One Year After Hanau.” This summer, her debut novel, “Time of Monsters,” about life in times of the apocalypse, will be published.

Manuel Raeder (* 1977), graphic designer and publisher of BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, explores the significance of various textual spaces for the construction of social narratives through multidisciplinary, partly artistic works. This has resulted in over 250 artist books.

The KLINGSPOR MUSEUM explores the linguistic and cultural multilingualism of our time through an analog aesthetic. With more than 80,000 artist books, posters, tapestries, and calligraphic works, it serves as a living archive representing “matters of text.”

PRÄPOSITION was born as a literary space on the internet and today seeks a multimedia, anti-capitalist presentation of text and language. Its non-profit commitment, as well as the commitment of the OFFENBACH UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN as a learning space for transdisciplinary artistic and design work, form the enduring imperative that brings this festival to life for the third time: text matters.