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Dear Colleagues

Flaschenpost: German Poetry and the Long Twentieth Century: a colloquium to be 
held at New College, Oxford April 15-16 2005.
Attendance at all events is free of charge, but places for the papers on the 
Saturday must be booked by 1st April.
Full details available at: 
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/flaschenpost

Do come along

Karen


‘FLASCHENPOST’:
GERMAN POETRY AND THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY
A COLLOQUIUM
NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
15-16 April 2005

Friday 15th April 2005

5.30 	Bi-lingual poetry reading: Michael Krüger; Ulrike Draesner, Iain 
Galbraith, Karen Leeder, Long Room, New College
7pm	Reception courtesy of New College, Long Room

Saturday 16th April 2005 

Workshop Noel Salter Room (Lecture Room 4)

9.30	Prof . Robert Vilain (Royal Holloway) : ‘“Le style ... c'est le 
diable”: Early 20th-Century German Poetry in Dialogue with Paul Valéry’.
10.15	Prof. Michael Eskin (Columbia University): ‘“Of Poets and Sailors” – On
 Celan, Brodsky, and Grünbein’ .

11am 	coffee JCR 

11.30	Prof. Hans-Harald Müller and Dr Tom Kindt (University of Hamburg): ‘Die
Liebeslyrik: Brecht und andere’.
12.15	Dr Katrin Kohl (Oxford): ‘“Grammatische Meditationen” und “Herzworte” –
Sprache als Metapher in der Lyrik des 20. Jahrhunderts’.

1 pm	Lunch (own arrangements)

2 pm	Prof. Wolfgang Emmerich (University of Bremen): ‘Keine Lyrik nach
 Auschwitz? 50 Jahre Kontroversen und Gedichte nach Adornos Diktum’.
2.45	Dr Georgina Paul (University of Warwick): ‘Gender and Tradition: Bewegte
Differenzen: Readings in contemporary poetry by women’.

3.30	 tea JCR

4 pm	Prof. Hermann Korte (University of Siegen): ‘Das epigrammatische Gedicht
	 in Westdeutschland seit 1945’.
4.45	Prof. Hiltrud Gnüg (University of Bonn): ‘“Das Ende der
	 Landschaftsmalerei” - Problematik und Wiederentdeckung eines Genre’. 
5 .30 pm    closing discussion 


-- 
Dr K.J. Leeder
Reader in German
Fellow and Tutor in German,
New College, Oxford