Writing Against War - Writing Against Violence
Ingeborg Bachmann and German-Language Literature since 1945
Symposium at the University of Nottingham, Department of German,
14-15 January 2005
The Department of German at the University of Nottingham is hosting
the bilingual multi-media exhibition »Writing Against War - Ingeborg
Bachmann 1926-1973« at the D. H. Pavilion from 11-22 January 2005. To
mark this occasion we are delighted to invite you to the symposium
»Writing Against War - Writing Against Violence. Ingeborg Bachmann
and German-Language Literature since 1945« on 14-15 January 2005.
This two-day event explores the theme of the exhibition in the wider
context of literary representations of war and violence in the work
of both Ingeborg Bachmann and other literature in German after 1945.
Papers are in English and German by scholars from the UK, Ireland,
Austria, Germany, and the US.
Please note that the conference starts on Friday, 14 January 2005, at
3 pm, and finishes on Saturday, 15 January, at 7.30 pm. Guests will
have to pay a fee for the catering provided during the conference. On
Friday, 14 January, the conference programme includes a recital by
Elisabeth Linhart (soprano, Vienna) and Julia Tsenova (piano, Sofia),
performing Julia Tsenova's two cycles for soprano and piano on poems
by Ingeborg Bachmann.
Please register as soon as possible.
Preliminary list of papers:
Monika Albrecht (Münster): Che Guevara in Deutsch-Südwest: Uwe Timms
Anti-Kriegsroman Morenga (1978) im Kontext seiner Entstehungszeit
Heike Bartel (Nottingham): 'Das Erreichbare, fern genug, das zu
Erreichende hieß Wien'. Paul Celans Wiener Lyrik
Mary Cosgrove (Dublin): Boudoir Society. Violence and Biopolitics in
Albert Drach's Protocol Novels
Anne Fuchs (Dublin): 'Ich gehe jedenfalls immer gemächlich': The End
of World War II in the Journals by Margret Boveri, Ruth Andreas
Friedrich and Anonyma
Sabine I. Gölz (Iowa): Der Ursprung der schlechten Sprache: Zum
Beispiel Walter Benjamin
Dirk Göttsche (Nottingham): Politische Sprachkritik in Bachmanns
kritischen Schriften
Martin A. Hainz (Wien): Messianismus, mittelbar. Zu Celans
Perspektive wider die Gewalt
Hans Höller (Salzburg): Was heißt, nach 1945, "Schreiben gegen den
Krieg"? Das Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns
Tabea Kretschmann (Erlangen): 'Ein Buch über die Hölle' -
Auschwitz-Diskurs und Dante-Rezeption in Ingeborg Bachmanns Malina
Caitriona Leahy (Dublin): Witnessing War. Ingeborg Bachmann and the
mediation of war
Ritchie Robertson (Oxford): Memory and Narrative in George Saiko's
Der Mann im Schilf (1955) and Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut (1960)
Dennis Tate (Bath): War as a 'god-damned crusade': Stefan Heym's The
Crusaders (1948) revisited
Elisabeth Wagner (Berlin): Die Gewalt der Fremde - Lektüren von
Ingeborg Bachmanns Der Fall Franza und Peter Weiss' Die Ästhetik des
Widerstands
Beate Willma (London): 'Am Starkstrom der Gegenwart': Postwar musical
aesthetics in Ingeborg Bachmann's early poetology
For further enquiries and to register for attending the conference,
please contact:
Prof. Dirk Göttsche, Department of German, The University of
Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, e-mail:
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Dr Franziska Meyer, Department of German, The University of
Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, e-mail:
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