The AMGS are please to inform you that the next Conference on the theme of THE IMPORTANCE OF GERMAN CULTURE IN AUSTRIA, GERMANY (BRD & DDR) AND SWITZERLAND will take place at the University of Birmingham, Muirhead Tower (4th floor, Lecture Room 5) on 29 April.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
(The registration form will be sent out in a second message.)
10.00 - 10.30 Registration and Coffee
10.30 - 10.35 Welcome and Introduction by Klaus-Dieter Rossade (OU),
AMGS Convenor, on behalf of the ASSOCIATION
10.35 - 11.20 Allyson Fiddler, University of Lancaster
"Climb every Mountain, Ford every Stream...?" Some reflections on sport in contemporary Austrian Literature and politics.
11.20 - 11.30 Discussion
11.30 - 12.30 Felix Saure, Universität Marburg
"Körperliche Stärke und Behendigkeit zu ehren" oder
Olympia in Berlin: Der deutsche Idealismus, die Sportwettkämpfe
im antiken Griechenland und das moderne Deutschland
John Hughes, Royal Holloway, University of London
"Im Sport ist der Nerv der Zeit selber zu spüren": Sport and Cultural Debate in the Weimar Republic
12.30 - 12.45 Discussion
12.45 -14.00 BUFFET LUNCH (6th floor, room 605)
14.00 - 15.00 Mike Dennis, University of Wolverhampton
Football in the GDR
Stefan Marthin, Loughborough University
"Deutschland ist Weltmeister!" - zumindest teilweise. Reaktionen auf Westdeutsche Fussballerfolge im Neuen Deutschland
15.00 - 15.15 Discussion
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee
15.30 - 16.30 Kay Schiller, University of Durham
Before Spielberg: The 1972 Olympics and Coping with the German Past
David Clarke, University of Bath
German boys do cry: Masculinity, Consumerism and Das Wunder von Bern (2003)
16.30 - 16.45 Discussion
For interested conference participants, there will be an opportunity to watch some more scenes from: Das Wunder von Bern.
A FOLLOW-UP WORKSHOP IS PLANNED FOR NOVEMBER 2006
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