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