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@marcakeller.bsky.social

Literaturwissenschaftler • Sterbehilfe in Literatur und Film • Postdoc @assistedlab.bsky.social • www.assistedlab.ch • he/him

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Mir wäre die Politik von Künstler:innen auch egal, solange sie sie nicht in alle Megaphone brüllen, sondern für sich behalten. In dem Moment, wo ein Künstler seinen Status nutzt, um außerkünstlerische Meinungen zu verbreiten, verstößt er gegen die Autonomie, nicht die Rezipient:innen.

02.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 98    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 0

Oh, sehr schön! Bin sehr dankbar für solche Hinweise.

20.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh vielen lieben Dank, das hätte ich tatsächlich nicht mitbekommen.

19.09.2025 07:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Suizid und die Frage der Medienethik Der diese Woche medial publik gewordene assistierte Suizid des Autors, früheren Journalisten und Lehrers Nikolaus Glattauer hat einige ethische und auch medienethische Fragen aufgeworfen. Die Philosop...

#Sterbehilfe

Und ich dachte, ich sei mit meinem Unbehagen am so einhellig begrüßten Glattauer-Interview allein. religion.orf.at/stories/3231...

07.09.2025 18:58 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Ethik: Selbstbestimmt bis zuletzt – im Sterben wie im Leben In der Debatte um Sterbehilfe geht es meist um Autonomie und Freiheit. Doch was ist mit jenen, die im Leben nicht genug Unterstützung für ein lebenswertes Dasein erhalten?

Nicht zu sterben, muss man sich zuerst einmal leisten können: Wie die zunehmende Normalisierung der #Sterbehilfe gewisse Menschen in Gefahr bringt.

Von @marcakeller.bsky.social

15.09.2025 05:57 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 2
12.09.2025 09:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Das freut mich wirklich sehr, vielen lieben Dank! Eines der zentralen Anliegen unseres Forschungsprojekts besteht tatsächlich darin, zur Differenzierung und Nuancierung eines zumeist sehr polarisierten Schwarz-Weiss-Diskurses beizutragen. Schön zu hören, dass der Artikel dies transportieren konnte!

12.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tausend Dank für das sehr schöne Feedback! 🫶🏻

12.09.2025 06:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Vielen herzlichen Dank, liebe Lin😊

11.09.2025 14:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vielen lieben Dank euch dreien, das freut mich wirklich riesig!

11.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ethik: Selbstbestimmt bis zuletzt – im Sterben wie im Leben In der Debatte um Sterbehilfe geht es meist um Autonomie und Freiheit. Doch was ist mit jenen, die im Leben nicht genug Unterstützung für ein lebenswertes Dasein erhalten?

Unter dem Banner der Autonomie wächst die Forderung nach Sterbehilfe für Menschen, die nicht schwerkrank sind. Zwei Dokumentarfilme zeigen die Kehrseite: Für Menschen mit Behinderung ist sie mitunter kein Ausdruck von Wahlfreiheit, sondern Folge fehlender Unterstützung. Mein Text dazu in der @woz.ch

11.09.2025 10:56 — 👍 24    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 0
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'Die Glückssucherin. Warum Margrit Schäppi einen Lebensratgeber schrieb und trotzdem den Freitod wählte' by Margrit Schäppi and Matthias Ackeret Before publication, Margrit Schäppi took her life with the aid of a Swiss assisted suicide organisation.

The assisted suicide regime in Switzerland is often seen as model. This book, 'Die Glückssucherin’, by Margrit Schäppi and Matthias Ackeret is at times sharply critical of Swiss assisted suicide practices.

Analysis by @marcakeller.bsky.social

assistedlab.ch/textual/die-...

14.08.2025 22:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

wer eugenik sagt muss auch forschung therapien versorgung > sterbehilfe sagen

02.08.2025 13:10 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
'Winter in Gloster Huis' by Vonne van der Meer

Interested in summer reading about assisted dying? See these books & new analyses by Assisted Lab 🧵

In Dutch 'Winter in Gloster Huis' by Vonne van der Meer, a novel in the Netherlands, discussing completed life & existential suffering. 1/4

By Wouter Schrover 👇

assistedlab.ch/textual/wint...

14.07.2025 15:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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HSG: PhD Position in Medical / Legal Humanities / Cultural Studies (m/f/d) We welcome applicants with a strong academic background in law, legal humanities, socio-legal studies, film studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, comparative literature, or a related di...

Assisted Lab is hiring - please share widely!

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position (100%) as part of the ERC/SERI Assisted Lab team at University of St. Gallen, starting September 2025.

More information here 👇

jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stell...

24.06.2025 20:10 — 👍 11    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1
BPK: Studie zu zwei Jahren Bürgergeld aus Sicht der Betroffenen | 23.06.25
YouTube video by phoenix BPK: Studie zu zwei Jahren Bürgergeld aus Sicht der Betroffenen | 23.06.25

Dass alte Menschen aufgrund von Armut ihr Leben nicht mehr für lebenswürdig halten, passiert auch in Deutschland. Und Einsamkeit als Faktor? Allein die Studie von Betroffenen zeigt, dass jede zehnte Person mit Bürgergeld sich gesellschaftlich nicht zugehörig fühlt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck_t...

24.06.2025 11:02 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Plan 75 - Film in voller Länge | ARTE Um der Überalterung der japanischen Gesellschaft entgegenzuwirken, wird der "Plan 75" eingeführt: Menschen ab 75 Jahren erhalten ein "Recht auf Sterbehilfe". Die 78-jährige Michi überlegt, an dem Prog...

Dieser Film ist traurig und kostenlos bei arte zu sehen.
CN Sterbehilfe. Menschen in Japan wird angeboten, Sterbehilfe in Anspruch zu nehmen, um einer Überalterung und den damit wirtschaftlichen Folgen entgegen zu wirken. #filmtipp
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

24.06.2025 09:48 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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HSG: PhD Position in Medical / Legal Humanities / Cultural Studies (m/f/d) We welcome applicants with a strong academic background in law, legal humanities, socio-legal studies, film studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, comparative literature, or a related di...

How do stories shape legal debates and law-making on assisted dying? We’re hiring a PhD researcher to explore this question in an interdisciplinary project. Ideal candidates have a background in law, socio-legal studies, cultural/media studies, sociology, comparative literature, or related fields.

24.06.2025 10:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Poster for an international conference on "Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature" (4th and 5th July, 2025), featuring event details and a grayscale architectural illustration.

Poster for an international conference on "Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature" (4th and 5th July, 2025), featuring event details and a grayscale architectural illustration.

A conference schedule for Friday, 4 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks.

Programme Friday 4th July

9:15-10:00 King: Welcome and Introduction

1. Section: Medical spaces across time
10-10:45 Sam Cohn: Pandemics and the re-shaping of cities
10:45-11:30 Astrid Köhler: The medicalization of the spa in the nineteenth century
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:45 Monika Ankele: The concept of “humanization” in the context of architecture and reform in 19th and 20th century psychiatry

12:45-14:15 Lunch

2. Section: The history and future of the modern hospital 
14:15-15:15 Keynote Annmarie Adams: Medicine by design: the architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943
15:15-16:00 Victoria Bates: Feeling blue: colour and the modern British hospital
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30 – 17:30  Keynote Magnus Nickl: Healing Architecture – Next Generation

19:00 Conference Dinner

A conference schedule for Friday, 4 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks. Programme Friday 4th July 9:15-10:00 King: Welcome and Introduction 1. Section: Medical spaces across time 10-10:45 Sam Cohn: Pandemics and the re-shaping of cities 10:45-11:30 Astrid Köhler: The medicalization of the spa in the nineteenth century 11:30-12:00 Coffee 12:00-12:45 Monika Ankele: The concept of “humanization” in the context of architecture and reform in 19th and 20th century psychiatry 12:45-14:15 Lunch 2. Section: The history and future of the modern hospital 14:15-15:15 Keynote Annmarie Adams: Medicine by design: the architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943 15:15-16:00 Victoria Bates: Feeling blue: colour and the modern British hospital 16:00-16:30 Coffee 16:30 – 17:30 Keynote Magnus Nickl: Healing Architecture – Next Generation 19:00 Conference Dinner

A conference schedule for Saturday, 5 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks.

Programme, Saturday 5th July 

3. Section: The modern hospital and technicalization
9:30-10:15 Flurin Condrau: Patients, doctors and technology: towards a history of intensive care units in Switzerland and the UK
10:15-11:00 Gina Rauschtenberger: Computer architecture and new forms of organization. On the building history of Aachen University Hospital as a technical object 1960-1980
11:00-11:30 Coffee

4. Section: Literary representations of medical spaces
11:30-12:15 Alina Boy: Spa Culture. Spaces of Healing in 20th Century German Literature
12:15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14:45 Keynote Katrin Dennerlein: Narrating medical space in literature: Thomas Mann, the Chicago ‘Billings Hospital’ and “The Genesis of Doctor Faustus” (1949)
14:45-15:30 Mona Baie: Beyond heterotopia: on the semantics of clinical spaces in autopathographical prose of the 20th and 21st centuries
15:30-16 Coffee
16:00-16:45 Marc Keller: Spaces of assisted dying in contemporary German- and French-language literature and film

16:45-17:30 Final discussion

A conference schedule for Saturday, 5 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks. Programme, Saturday 5th July 3. Section: The modern hospital and technicalization 9:30-10:15 Flurin Condrau: Patients, doctors and technology: towards a history of intensive care units in Switzerland and the UK 10:15-11:00 Gina Rauschtenberger: Computer architecture and new forms of organization. On the building history of Aachen University Hospital as a technical object 1960-1980 11:00-11:30 Coffee 4. Section: Literary representations of medical spaces 11:30-12:15 Alina Boy: Spa Culture. Spaces of Healing in 20th Century German Literature 12:15-13.45 Lunch 13.45-14:45 Keynote Katrin Dennerlein: Narrating medical space in literature: Thomas Mann, the Chicago ‘Billings Hospital’ and “The Genesis of Doctor Faustus” (1949) 14:45-15:30 Mona Baie: Beyond heterotopia: on the semantics of clinical spaces in autopathographical prose of the 20th and 21st centuries 15:30-16 Coffee 16:00-16:45 Marc Keller: Spaces of assisted dying in contemporary German- and French-language literature and film 16:45-17:30 Final discussion

Abstract Conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: 

Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the ‘spatial turn’ has attracted many contributions from a variety of disciplines, e.g. architecture and urban planning, sociology, history, literature, and media studies. Overall, it laid the groundwork for a new conception of space: no longer a fixed container, but a dynamic category that shapes phenomena and relationships while itself being constantly reconfigured by them. Considering the broad debate following this impulse, however, one puzzling absence makes itself felt. This is the multiplicity of medical spaces that have emerged over time: from the medieval lazaretto, the psychiatric asylum, and the sanatorium to the university hospital of the present, etc. The multidisciplinary conference explores the emergence and determinators of these spaces and processes, investigating the actors, power relations, objects, boundaries, and thresholds that constitute them. Inversely, it also examines how they shape codes and roles as well as how they are represented in media, literature, and art.

Abstract Conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the ‘spatial turn’ has attracted many contributions from a variety of disciplines, e.g. architecture and urban planning, sociology, history, literature, and media studies. Overall, it laid the groundwork for a new conception of space: no longer a fixed container, but a dynamic category that shapes phenomena and relationships while itself being constantly reconfigured by them. Considering the broad debate following this impulse, however, one puzzling absence makes itself felt. This is the multiplicity of medical spaces that have emerged over time: from the medieval lazaretto, the psychiatric asylum, and the sanatorium to the university hospital of the present, etc. The multidisciplinary conference explores the emergence and determinators of these spaces and processes, investigating the actors, power relations, objects, boundaries, and thresholds that constitute them. Inversely, it also examines how they shape codes and roles as well as how they are represented in media, literature, and art.

Join us next month in Fribourg for our conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, generously funded by the @snf-fns.ch. With presentations by @annmarieadams.bsky.social, @marcakeller.bsky.social, and many more!

17.06.2025 09:39 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Weltweit werden LGBTIQ+ Rechte eingeschränkt. Und auch in der Schweiz droht die Stimmung zu kippen. Setz mit den queeren Menschen in der Schweiz ein Zeichen: Unterschreibe jetzt den queeren Appell! #QueererAppell #QueerRights #LGBTIQA
queerer-appell.ch

15.06.2025 20:33 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1
Screenshot of a Dallas express article. There’s a man sitting in a hospital gown. Text reads

Man With Disabilities Begs Hospital To Stop
Pushing Suicide
LOGAN WASHBURN - STAFF WRITER
HEALTH & SCIENCE
MAY 29, 2025
Roger Foley | Image by Roger Foley @rogerfoley/X
Hospital staff have repeatedly pushed a Canadian man with disabilities to accept euthanasia. Now, he says, they are repeatedly asking him about suicide while cutting off basic needs like food and

Screenshot of a Dallas express article. There’s a man sitting in a hospital gown. Text reads Man With Disabilities Begs Hospital To Stop Pushing Suicide LOGAN WASHBURN - STAFF WRITER HEALTH & SCIENCE MAY 29, 2025 Roger Foley | Image by Roger Foley @rogerfoley/X Hospital staff have repeatedly pushed a Canadian man with disabilities to accept euthanasia. Now, he says, they are repeatedly asking him about suicide while cutting off basic needs like food and

Screenshot of a Dallas examiner article which reads Brother Of Disabled Man To Canadian
Hospital: He Is 'Dying In Front Of You'
LOGAN WASHBURN - STAFF WRITER
HEALTH & SCIENCE
JUN 11, 2025
Roger Foley | Image by Roger Foley @rogerfoley/X
The brother of a disabled Canadian man is pleading with his hospital - which pushed euthanasia and cut off food and water nearly one month ago - to stop him from "dying in front of you."
Instead of helping, The Dallas Express has learned, hospital officials told his brother to stop contacting them.

There’s a photo of a man laying in a hospital bed

Screenshot of a Dallas examiner article which reads Brother Of Disabled Man To Canadian Hospital: He Is 'Dying In Front Of You' LOGAN WASHBURN - STAFF WRITER HEALTH & SCIENCE JUN 11, 2025 Roger Foley | Image by Roger Foley @rogerfoley/X The brother of a disabled Canadian man is pleading with his hospital - which pushed euthanasia and cut off food and water nearly one month ago - to stop him from "dying in front of you." Instead of helping, The Dallas Express has learned, hospital officials told his brother to stop contacting them. There’s a photo of a man laying in a hospital bed

Whatever your personal beliefs on Assisted Dying, we should all be able to agree on 2 fundamentals:

No means no. If a patient doesn’t want it, end of discussion.

It should never be offered in lieu of care or social supports.

If it is, it’s not compassion.

It’s eugenics 🧵

12.06.2025 03:32 — 👍 2570    🔁 795    💬 67    📌 49
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Brother Of Disabled Man To Canadian Hospital: He Is ‘Dying In Front Of You’ The brother of a disabled Canadian man is pleading with his hospital – which pushed euthanasia and cut off food and water.

Roger Foley has been speaking out about coercion within Canada's MAiD (medical assistance in dying) program for years.

He's been pushed to access it, despite repeatedly telling hospital staff he doesn't want to die.

He's had his accommodation for special lighting removed. Food & water restricted:

11.06.2025 22:53 — 👍 281    🔁 134    💬 10    📌 19
'Alices Reise in die Schweiz. Szenen aus dem Leben des Sterbehelfers Gustav Strom' by Lukas Bärfuss

New archive entry by @marcakeller.bsky.social on an important play, Lukas Bärfuss’s "Alices Reise in die Schweiz", depicting and influencing debates around assisted dying in Switzerland.

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assistedlab.ch/performative...

09.06.2025 19:08 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Workshop : Palliative Care and Assisted Dying: Stories of the End of Life This workshop is organised by the Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities (SCMHH)

Our workshop Palliative Care and Assisted Dying: Stories of the End of Life hosted by Marc Keller & Jordan McCullough is starting very soon. Thanks to Aude Campmas & @unisouthampton.bsky.social for the invite!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-p...

05.06.2025 15:40 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Assisted Lab’s Living Archive of Assisted Dying • ‘Sarco’ by Philip Nitschke Assisted Lab is a research group based at University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, that investigates the cultural productions – including films, texts, and other media – that influence the legal and poli...

In 2017 Australian assisted dying activist Philip Nitschke created the Sarco suicide pod.

Since then it has been the subject of serious ethical concerns and fierce criticism.

For an analysis by @marcakeller.bsky.social 👇

assistedlab.ch/performative...

14.04.2025 09:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“For an Anne Bert Law”: Narratives, Advocacy, and the Legalization of Assisted Dying in France This article examines how French author Anne Bert, who received euthanasia in Belgium, produced several cultural productions that influenced France’s assisted-dying debate. It therefore highlights ...

New publication in Law & Literature 📣

How do narratives of assisted dying influence political processes?

See 👇 for our deep dive into how the story of Anne Bert, writer, activist, mother, was integrated into French debates around legalization

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

19.03.2025 13:03 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Filmpodium: Jackie the Wolf Kann Kunst die Welt verändern? Ja, sie kann – und beispielsweise ganz konkret Einfluss auf ethische Diskussionen und Rechtsprechung nehmen. Das europäische Forschungsprojekt «Assisted Lab» (https://as...

Am 8.4. zeigt das Filmpodium Zürich den Dokumentarfilm 'Jackie the Wolf', in dem Tuki Jencquel dem Sterbewunsch seiner Mutter nachspürt. Die öffentliche Filmvorführung bildet den Auftakt zu einer von uns organisierten Tagung zum existenziellen Leiden als Sterbemotiv. Tickets sind hier erhältlich:

31.03.2025 12:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Filmpodium: Jackie the Wolf Kann Kunst die Welt verändern? Ja, sie kann – und beispielsweise ganz konkret Einfluss auf ethische Diskussionen und Rechtsprechung nehmen. Das europäische Forschungsprojekt «Assisted Lab» (https://as...

Am 8. April veranstalten wir im Filmpodium Zürich ein Screening des Dokumentarfilms "Jackie the Wolf" (2023). Im Anschluss an den Film, der Jacqueline Jencquels Entschluss zu sterben thematisiert, findet eine Podiumsdiskussion statt, u. a. mit dem Regisseur Tuki Jencquel. Tickets gibts hier:

17.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Das Bild zeigt einen Aufkleber auf weißen Fliesen. Der Aufkleber trägt den Schriftzug „CUTE ZEITEN RECHTE FIGHTEN“ in Großbuchstaben. Der Hintergrund ist in den Farben Schwarz, Blau und Rosa gestaltet.

Das Bild zeigt einen Aufkleber auf weißen Fliesen. Der Aufkleber trägt den Schriftzug „CUTE ZEITEN RECHTE FIGHTEN“ in Großbuchstaben. Der Hintergrund ist in den Farben Schwarz, Blau und Rosa gestaltet.

Motto für die kommenden Jahre.
#NazisRaus

30.01.2025 21:59 — 👍 326    🔁 37    💬 2    📌 1
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„Fun“ von Bela B Felsenheimer spielt auf Rammstein an Der Musiker einer bekannten Band schreibt einen Roman über eine fiktive bekannte Band: „Fun“ heißt das Buch von Bela B Felsenheimer. Macht das Spaß, oder ist es nur ein schlechter Witz?

„So wird alles, worum es in den bekannt gewordenen Missbrauchsfällen im Musikbusiness ging, banalisiert und ausgebeutet für den Spaß eines Romans, mit dem Bela B Felsenheimer seinerseits dann auf Lesetour gehen kann.“
Sowas war leider zu erwarten, ist aber nichtsdestotrotz unglaublich ekelhaft.

28.01.2025 10:23 — 👍 33    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 0

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