Dear All, I would like to bring to your attention the following symposium: SYMPOSIUM: POWER AND PERFORMANCE IN THE BERLIN REPUBLIC Saturday, 18 October 2003 University of Bristol, Royal Fort House contact: Dr Birgit Haas, email [log in to unmask] 10.15 Registration 11.00 Moray McGowan (Dublin): Totentrompeten and Verratenes Volk: Einar Schleef's Theatre Work in the Berlin Republic 11.30 Hajo Kurzenberger (Hildesheim): Das Theater der Politik. 'Staatsathletik' auf verschiedenen Berliner Bühnen. 12.30 - 2 pm Lunch 2.15 Peter Marx (Mainz): Legitimes Theater? Anmerkungen zu politischen Inszenierungsstrategien der Berliner Republik. 2.45 David Barnett (Huddersfield): Resisting Easy Consumption. The Politics of Form in Selected Plays of the Berlin Republic. 3.30 - 4 pm Tea and Coffee 4.15 Wolfgang Mühl-Benninghaus (Berlin): Vom politischen Theater zum Theater der Politik. Grenzerfahrungen der subversiven Kraft des Theaters in der Berliner Republik an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert 4.45 Nicolas Whybrow (Leicester): Wracked Reichstag: Performative Interventions in the Berlin Republic's Seat of Power 5.15 Meg Mumford (Glasgow): 'Potpourri without Punch? An Inquiry into the Political 'Voice(s)' of German Tanztheater in the Berlin Republic' ---------------------- Dr Birgit Haas, University of Bristol German Department BS 8 1TH Bristol [log in to unmask]