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Townscapes and Countryside in Contemporary German Writing
A Conference supported by the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes
Organisers: Osman Durrani and Julian Preece
Booking Form: http://www.ukc.ac.uk/secl/german/town/booking.doc
Further Details: http://www.ukc.ac.uk/secl/german/town/index.html
Featuring a reading by Norman Ohler (Die Quotenmaschine, Mitte)
http://www.mittedasbuch.de
http://www.sayheykey.de
University of Kent at Canterbury, 18-20 April 2002
http://www.ukc.ac.uk/secl/german
Provisional Programme
Thursday, 18 April
12.00-13.00 Registration, Eliot College
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Dieter Stolz (Berlin): Mikrokosmos Provinz
14.45 Stefan Neuhaus (Bamberg): Stadt-Land-Frust. Zur Wandlungsfähigkeit
des Topos vom Gegensatz
15.15 Colin Riordan (Newcastle): Landscape and the built environment in
contemporary German literature
15.45-16.15 Tea/Coffee
16.15 Robert Halsall (Aberdeen): Phenomenology of the suburb
16.45 Chloe Paver (Exeter): Urban vagrancy in post-Wende fiction
17.15 Birgit Haas (Bristol): Death strips and Bohemian trips: Reflections of a
scarred country
17.45-18.30 Discussion
19.00 Depart for Canterbury
19.30 Dinner in The Pilgrims Hotel (18, The Friars, Canterbury)
See: http://www.theaa.com/hotels/45446.html
21.00 The Pilgrims Hotel. Norman Ohler will read from his works
Friday, 19 April
09.15 Christina Ujma (Loughborough): Abschied von Arkadien? Italienische
Stadtbilder der Gegenwartsliteratur zwischen literarischer Tradition und
Aufbruch zu neuer Darstellung
09.45 Gregory Knott (Washington, St. Louis): Heimat in Arnold Stadler's
works
10.15 Geza von Essen (Göttingen): 'Wien beliebt Wien'? Das Wien der
Remigranten bei Robert Schindel, Gerhard Roth und anderen
10.45-11.15 Tea/Coffee
11.15 Fabian Lampart (Göttingen): Transitraum oder Sedimentfeld: Durs
Grünbeins Berlin und Christoph Ransmayrs Moor im Vergleich
11.45 Dagmar Dreyer and Marianne Schmidt (Göttingen): Norman Ohler,
Mitte. "pervertierte Heimat - das braucht der Mensch ab und zu." Urban
Gothic im Berlin zwischen Verheißung und Apokalypse
12.15-12.45 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.15 Andreas Kramer (Goldsmiths, London): ‘Die Unerheblichkeit Berlins’:
contemporary German Poetry and the re-writing of regionalism
14.45 Paul Kroker (Milano): inferno ohne paradies: hilbigs "ich" in der berliner
unterwelt
15.15 Dave Rock (Keele): Berlin as a non-German city: the Romanian-
German writer Richard Wagner
15.45-16.15 Tea/Coffee
16.15 Simon Meacher (Exeter): ‘Die Geheimnisse der Bäume und Pflanzen’.
Anthropocentrism in the Fiction of Siegfried Lenz
16.45 Owen Evans (Bangor): Günter de Bruyn and the Mark Brandenburg
17.15 Winfried Woesler (Osnabrück): Naturlyrik auf dem Gebiet der DDR, vor
und nach der Wende
17.45-18.30 Discussion
19.00 Dinner
Saturday, 20 April
09.15 Ruth Owen (Oxford): Heimat, Hauptstadt, Unheimliches
09.45 Axel Goodbody (Bath): From Laubenkolonie to Biotop: urban reserves
in 20th century German literature
10.15 Juliet Wigmore (Salford): Crime, Corruption, Capitalism. Elfriede
Jelinek’s Gier
10.45-11.15 Tea/Coffee
11.15 Robert Gillett (QMC, London): Hubert Fichte and Hamburg
11.45 Susan Tebbutt (Bradford): The politicised pastoral idyll in Ludwig
Laher's Heimatroman Herzfleischentartung
12.15-12.45 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Saturday pm: Departure
The Organisers ([log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]) wish to express their
thanks for generous support from the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes
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