Wie man Hölderlin in einer Ausstellung lesen kann

With over 150 exhibits and various installations, the exhibition "Hölderlin, Celan and the Languages of Poetry" at the Museum of Modern Literature of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach shows different ways of reading Hölderlin: close reading; distant reading and scalable reading; hermeneutic and formalist-structuralist, text-genetic, production- and material-aesthetic reading; as well as reception-historical oriented reading. In addition, the exhibition investigates the reading of Hölderlin's poems with the help of its visitors by means of empirical reading research—i.e., reading Hölderlin in the archive and in the laboratory. These Hölderlin readings are presented in this article, related to literary-scientific and cognitive-psychological dimensions, and questioned with regard to the particularities of the genre "literature exhibition"—i.e., which forms of reading and the aesthetic experience of literature are at all possible in a literature exhibition and which are characteristic for it?