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When Walter Höllerer founded the LCB in 1963, he planned it as a central point on the map of German-language literature. Today the building at Am Sandwerder 5 is not only an important address in Berlin for authors and readers and a meeting point for international guests, but also “a nerve center of all of German-language literature,” as Peter von Matt, a literary scholar at the university of Zurich, once wrote. The image is well chosen: indeed, the LCB forms a center of what Pierre Bourdieu has called the “literary field,” the force field containing the various individuals and institutions involved in the process of reading and the book.

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