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The lecture focuses on literary texts such as Alain de Botton's diary ‘A Week at the Airport’ (2009), Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Night Flight (1931), Max Frisch's Homo Faber (1957), Christian Kracht Faserland (1995) Kathrin Röggla Tangente (2015). They generally present airports in terms of the necessities of air transport without any particular experiential qualities, and how the generation of frequent flyers of the 1990s and early 2000s see airports, like Monsieur Dupont in Augé, as part of mobile life. Particularly in the case of an emergency landing, as in Max Frisch's Homo Faber, and in literary fantasy, which has to gain the appropriate altitude in order to take a close look at world events, a great deal of attention is paid to the take-off and landing site.