01 March - 30 June 2021
Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, German Institute
Lecture of Timothy Attanucci: “Fortunatus” and Co.: Translations and Adaptions of a melancholic Bestseller (1509-1823)
Recent studies claim that as many as one in five CEOs may be psychopaths. In the early days of capitalism, an anonymous novel painted a portrait of the merchant Fortunatus as clever, cutthroat, anxious, and greedy. His (mis-)adventures became one of the most translated and adapted stories in early modern Europe.