INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE
at the
INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
12 and 13 February 2003
DAVID JOSEF BACH AND AUSTRIAN CULTURE BETWEEN THE WARS
SYMPOSIUM CO-ORDINATORS:
Judith Beniston (University College London)
and Edward Timms (University of Sussex)
Wednesday, 12 February
At the Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7
14.00 - 16.00 From Vienna to London: The Political Context
EDWARD TIMMS (Sussex): '"Wertlos"? The Legacy of David Josef Bach' IAN
MENZIES (Bognor): 'Viennese Socialist Culture as the Heritage of my
Childhood'
16.00 Tea
16.30 - 18.00 Modernism in Music
CHRISTIAN GLANZ (Vienna): 'David Josef Bach and the Viennese Debates about
Modern Music' JULIAN JOHNSON (Oxford): 'Anton Webern, the "Singverein" and
the Workers' Symphony Concerts'
19.30 Opening Event and Reception at the Austrian Cultural Forum
Thursday, 13 February
At the Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square, London WC1
10.00 - 12.45 Theatre Politics
RÜDIGER GÖRNER (Institute Director): Welcome
JOHN WARREN (Oxford Brookes): 'Bach, Kiesler and Theatrical Modernism'
ROBERT M. PYRAH (Oxford): 'Conservative Socialist or Radical Democrat?
Locating Bach's Theatre Politics'
11.30 Coffee break
12.00 MICHELLE DUNCAN (Cornell): 'Film, Art, Modernity: Bach's "Der
Kugelmensch"'
12.45 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 - 16.00 Red Vienna and the "Arbeiter-Zeitung"
WOLFGANG MADERTHANER (Vienna): 'Bach and Red Vienna: Experiment in
Working-Class Culture' JUDITH BENISTON (London): 'Socialist Readings: Bach's
Cultural Programme as promoted in the "Arbeiter-Zeitung"' DEBORAH HOLMES
(Vienna): 'Social Democratic Feuilleton Journalism in Austria between the
Wars'
16.00 Tea break
16.30 - 18.00 Exclusion and Exile
ANITA MAYER-HIRZBERGER (Vienna): 'The Takeover of Social Democratic Cultural
Institutions by the Austrian Corporate State' CHARMIAN BRINSON (London):
'David Josef Bach in British Exile'
18.00 Concluding Discussion
THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM,
LONDON, AND THE CENTRE FOR GERMAN-JEWISH STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
ALL WELCOME. PLEASE NOTE THAT BOOKINGS FOR THIS EVENT CANNOT BE ACCEPTED.
SEATS ARE AVAILABLE ON A FIRST-COME-FIRST-SERVED BASIS
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University of London School of Advanced Study
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