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'Stimme der Wahrheit'
The German-language Broadcasting of the BBC World Service
Conference at the Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
Co-Ordinator: The Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Institute of Germanic Studies
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 25 September 2002
14.00 RÜDIGER GÖRNER (Institute Director) and J.M. RITCHIE (Centre Chairman): 'Welcome and Introduction'
14.20 NINA BRINK (Sussex): 'BBC Broadcasting to Germany in Relation to Government Policy during World War II'
15.00 Discussion
15.10 URSULA SEEBER (Vienna) and DEBORAH VIETOR-ENGLÄNDER (Darmstadt): 'Hermynia zur Mühlen und die BBC'
16.00 Tea
16.30 IRMELA VON DER LÜHE (Göttingen): 'Das Monatliche für BBC - Thomas Manns Radioansprachen für Deutsche Hörer'
17.10 ALFRED STARKMANN (St Augustin): 'The Transition from Emigrés to Recruits from Germany and Austria on the Dtaff of the BBC's German Service'
17.50 Discussion
Thursday, 26 September 2002
9.45 WOLFGANG SCHOPF (Frankfurt): '"... ich wollte sauber bleiben": Werner Lansburghs
Radioarbeit als Krisenerfahrung'
10.30 Discussion
10.45 Coffee
11.15 JÜRGEN SCHULZ (Berlin/Sussex): 'The BBC as Part of the German Exile Network in Britain during the Nazi Period'
12.00 JENS BRÜNING (Berlin): 'Die BBC als Vorbild für den Nachkriegsrundfunk in Deutschland'
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15 LORLE LOUIS-HOFFMANN (Zurich): 'Personal recollections of the BBC Austrian Service, 1941-1945'
14.40 CHARMIAN BRINSON (London): '"Patrick Smith bei den Österreichern" or "Austria Resurgat": The BBC Austrian Service, 1942-1945'
15.10 RICHARD DOVE (Greenwich): '"It tickled my Viennese humour": Feature Programmes in the BBC Austrian Service, 1943-1945'
15.40 Discussion
16.00 Tea
16.30 HANS-ULRICH WAGNER (Hamburg): 'Der Einfluß der London-Remigranten auf die westdeutsche Rundfunkgeschichte'
17.10 JENNIFER TAYLOR (London): 'Two Women at the BBC, Christina Gibson and Grete Fischer: Aspects of BBC Broadcasting to Germany in Relation to Government Policy during World War II'
17.50 Discussion
Friday, 27 September 2002
9.45 KRISTIN REBIEN (Stanford, CA): 'Burned Bridges: The Rise and Fall of the Former BBC
Journalist Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler in East Germany'
10.30 Discussion
10.45 Coffee
11.15 WLADIMIR OSTROGORSKI (Berlin): 'Der bewunderte Rivale. Zur Wahrnehmung der deutschsprachigen Sendungen der BBC im Team des deutschsprachigen Dienstes von Radio
Moskau'
12.00 TOBY THACKER (Cardiff): 'Liberting German Musical Life: The BBC German Service and Planning for Music Control in Occupied Germany, 1944-49'
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15 PETER JOHNSON (London): 'Working as the BBC's German Service Representative and News Correspondent in West Berlin, 1965-1970'
15.00 MERETE BLATZ (Farnham): '"Tips für Touristen" (1972-1999): Das Programm und dessen Rolle als Botschafter Großbritanniens und Fenster zum Westen'
15.45 Discussion
16.00 Closing Discussion and Wine
17.00 Tour of Bush House
REGISTRATION
Printed programmes, including full details and a registration form, are available on request from the Administrative Secretary, Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square, GB-London WC1B 5DP. Those wishing to attend should register BY FRIDAY,13 SEPTEMBER.
REGISTRATION FEES
Please note that the REDUCED RATE only applies to fully paid-up Friends of the Institute. To qualify for the STUDENT RATE, applications must be supported by a photocopy of a union/registration card.
FOR ALL THREE DAYS
Standard Rate £30.00
Reduced Rate £25.00
Student Rate £15.00
DAY-RATE
Standard Rate £12.00
Reduced Rate £10.00
Student Rate £ 5.00
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