Heinz Druegh is Professor of Modern German Literature and Aesthetics at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on literature around 1800, modernism, and contemporary literature. He is particularly interested in questions of aesthetics and pop culture. How are aesthetics and democracy related to one another? Is Kantian aesthetics a critique of the political? “Taste or judgement is not the privilege of genius” (H. Arendt)

Publications

Drügh, Heinz. “Contemporary Poetry as Commodity”. Poetry in the Digital Age, edited by Claudia Benthien, De Gruyter, 2025.

Drügh, Heinz J. Ästhetik des Supermarkts. Konstanz University Press, 2015.

Drügh, Heinz, and Moritz Baßler. “Autonomieästhetik Heute”. Kunstautonomie, edited by Daniel Feige, transcript, 2026.

Baßler, Moritz, and Heinz Drügh. Gegenwartsästhetik. Konstanz University Press, 2021.

Baßler, Moritz, and Heinz Drügh. Konsumästhetik. transcript Verlag, 2019.