MOUNTAINS, LANDSCAPE AND POETRY
Symposium
at
St Andrews University
Date: Thursday, 28 November 2002, 5.00pm
Venue: St Andrews University, Buchanan Building, Room 216
Union Street, St. Andrews KY16 9PH
Participants: John Burnside, Michael Donhauser, Jamie Kathleen,
Raoul Schrott
Translator: Iain Galbraith
Moderators: Helen Chambers, Professor of German, University of St. Andrews,
Dr. Christine Rauer, School of English, University of
St. Andrews
Free Registration: Helen Chambers, Tel 01334 463 659,
e-mail [log in to unmask]
The international symposium “Mountains, Landscape and Poetry” provides a
platform for dialogue between Austrian and Scottish writers. The poets John
Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Michael Donhauser and Raoul Schrott, translated
by Iain Galbraith, will bring together different contemporary views on one
of the most popular themes in poetry.
The authors will read from their work followed by discussion of their
approach to the subject of landscape and mountains. Helen Chambers and
Christine Rauer will facilitate the dialogue between the poets and the
audience.
The symposium aims at contributing to cultural exchange and will provide an
occasion to come in contact with contemporary Austrian writing.
Participants:
John Burnside was born in 1955 and is one of Britain´s leading poets; he
has published three novels and seven volumes of poetry. Burnside has won a
number of awards including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and, in 2000,
the Whitebread Poetry Award for „The Asylum Dance“. He lives in Fife and
teaches Creative Writing at St Andrews University.
Michael Donhauser, who has lived in Vienna since 1976, was born in Vaduz
(Liechtenstein) in 1956. Since studying German, Romance languages and
literature he has published several acclaimed volumes of poetry and prose.
Donhauser has translated poetry by Arthur Rimbaud, Francis Ponge and
Michael Hamburger, and is the recipient of a number of prestigious prizes,
including the Manuskripte Prize (1990), Christine Lavant Poetry Prize
(1994), and, most recently, the Christian Wagner Prize.
Jamie Kathleen was born in 1962. She has published seven volumes of poetry
and has written two travel books. „The Queen of Sheba“ (1994) and „Jizzen“
(1999) were short-listed for both the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. She
has received several prestigious awards for her poetry, including the
Somerset Maugham Award, the Forward Prize and a Creative Scotland Award.
She has twice won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She lives in Fife and
teaches Creative Writing at St. Andrews University.
Raoul Schrott was born in 1964, brought up in Tunis and Tyrol, and now
lives in Ireland. He studied literature and linguistics in Norwich, Paris,
Berlin and Innsbruck, and taught at the Instituto Orientale in Naples from
1990-1993. He writes poetry, essays and fiction, and is a prolific
translator. His best-known books of poetry are Hotels (1995) and Tropen
(1998), while his prodigious anthology of ‘poetry from the first four
thousand years’, die Erfindung der Poesie (The Invention of Poetry), was
published to considerable critical acclaim in 1997.
Raoul Schrott has won many prizes and awards, including the Austrian State
Scholarship (1993), ‘Carinthia’ Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
(1994), Leonce and Lena Poetry Prize (1995), Robert Musil Award (1996), and
the Peter Huchel Poetry Prize (1999).
Iain Galbraith has translated many contemporary Austrian and German writers
into English. He is currently co-editing and translating substantial dual-
language anthologies of German and Scottish poetry. His German versions of
plays by British and Irish dramatists have been widely performed and
broadcast in the German-speaking countries.
Helen Chambers is Professor of German at the University of St. Andrews. She
has published on German and Austrian literature of the 19th and 20th
century and on Anglo-German cultural relations. She is Director of Graduate
Studies of the School of Modern Languages at St Andrews University.
Mountains, Landscape and Poetry is a joint event of the German Department,
Institute for European Cultural Identity Studies, and School of English,
University of St Andrews, supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London
(ACF). It is part of the ACF’s autumn season HIGHLY INSPIRED, organised to
coincide with the United Nations’ International Year of Mountains
(www.austria.org.uk/mountains). The season celebrates and questions the
various ways in which mountains have inspired artistic and intellectual
achievement.
ACF contact: Karin Proidl, Tel 020 - 7584 8653,
e-mail [log in to unmask]
MOUNTAINS, LANDSCAPE AND POETRY
Symposium
at
St Andrews University
Date Thursday, 28 November 2002, 5.00pm
Venue St Andrews University, Buchanan Building, Room 216
Union Street, St. Andrews KY16 9PH
Poets John Burnside, Michael Donhauser, Jamie Kathleen, Raoul Schrott
Translator Iain Galbraith
Moderators Helen Chambers, Professor of German, University of St.
Andrews
Dr. Christine Rauer, School of English, University of St. Andrews
Free Registration: Helen Chambers, Tel 01334 463 659, e-mail hec@st-
andrews.ac.uk
The international symposium “Mountains, Landscape and Poetry” provides a
platform for dialogue between Austrian and Scottish writers. The poets John
Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Michael Donhauser and Raoul Schrott, translated
by Iain Galbraith, will bring together different contemporary views on one
of the most popular themes in poetry.
The authors will read from their work followed by discussion of their
approach to the subject of landscape and mountains. Helen Chambers and
Christine Rauer will facilitate the dialogue between the poets and the
audience.
The symposium aims at contributing to cultural exchange and will provide an
occasion to come in contact with contemporary Austrian writing.
John Burnside was born in 1955 and is one of Britain´s leading poets; he
has published three novels and seven volumes of poetry. Burnside has won a
number of awards including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and, in 2000,
the Whitebread Poetry Award for „The Asylum Dance“. He lives in Fife and
teaches Creative Writing at St Andrews University.
Michael Donhauser, who has lived in Vienna since 1976, was born in Vaduz
(Liechtenstein) in 1956. Since studying German, Romance languages and
literature he has published several acclaimed volumes of poetry and prose.
Donhauser has translated poetry by Arthur Rimbaud, Francis Ponge and
Michael Hamburger, and is the recipient of a number of prestigious prizes,
including the Manuskripte Prize (1990), Christine Lavant Poetry Prize
(1994), and, most recently, the Christian Wagner Prize.
Jamie Kathleen was born in 1962. She has published seven volumes of poetry
and has written two travel books. „The Queen of Sheba“ (1994) and „Jizzen“
(1999) were short-listed for both the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. She
has received several prestigious awards for her poetry, including the
Somerset Maugham Award, the Forward Prize and a Creative Scotland Award.
She has twice won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She lives in Fife and
teaches Creative Writing at St. Andrews University.
Raoul Schrott was born in 1964, brought up in Tunis and Tyrol, and now
lives in Ireland. He studied literature and linguistics in Norwich, Paris,
Berlin and Innsbruck, and taught at the Instituto Orientale in Naples from
1990-1993. He writes poetry, essays and fiction, and is a prolific
translator. His best-known books of poetry are Hotels (1995) and Tropen
(1998), while his prodigious anthology of ‘poetry from the first four
thousand years’, die Erfindung der Poesie (The Invention of Poetry), was
published to considerable critical acclaim in 1997.
Raoul Schrott has won many prizes and awards, including the Austrian State
Scholarship (1993), ‘Carinthia’ Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
(1994), Leonce and Lena Poetry Prize (1995), Robert Musil Award (1996), and
the Peter Huchel Poetry Prize (1999).
Iain Galbraith has translated many contemporary Austrian and German writers
into English. He is currently co-editing and translating substantial dual-
language anthologies of German and Scottish poetry. His German version of
plays by British and Irish dramatists have been widely performed and
broadcast in the German-speaking countries.
Helen Chambers is Professor of German at the University of St. Andrews. She
has published on German and Austrian literature of the 19th and 20th
century and on Anglo-German cultural relations. She is Director of Graduate
Studies of the School of Modern Languages at St Andrews University.
Mountains, Landscape and Poetry is a joint event of the German Department,
Institute for European Cultural Identity Studies, and School of English,
University of St Andrews, supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London
(ACF). It is part of the ACF’s autumn season HIGHLY INSPIRED, organised to
coincide with the United Nations’ International Year of Mountains
www.austria.org.uk/mountains. The season celebrates and questions the
various ways in which mountains have inspired artistic and intellectual
achievement.
ACF contact: Karin Proidl, Tel 020 - 7584 8653, e-mail
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