Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
at the
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London

Workshop

Rediscovering Georg Trakl

Friday, 19 May 2006

Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ

Co-Ordinator: Martin Liebscher (London)
       
PROGRAMME

11.00   Welcome from Johannes Wimmer, Director, Austrian Cultural Forum
11.15   Alexander Stillmark (London/Neuötting): Problems of Principle and Practice facing the Translator of Trakl      

12.00   Robert Vilain (London): Trakl and the Symbolists       
12.45   Coffee 
13.15   Andrew Webber (Cambridge): Eventidings: Georg Trakl and Else Lasker-Schüler    
14.00   Lunch (own arrangements)       
15.00   Will Stone (Suffolk): A Visionary Infection - Georg Trakl's Dream and Derangement      
15.45   Simon Thomas (London): Blaubart's Bloody Blues: Trakl's Mythopoetics of Evil   
16.30   Tea    
17.00   Rüdiger Görner (London): Farbintervall und Wortverschattung. Versuch über Trakl
               
18.30   EVENING PROGRAMME: Trakl in Performance

Simon Thomas presents his new translations and adaptations of Trakl's plays, Maria Magdalena and Barrabas, his poems and letters. Cast includes Tom Frankland and Stephenjohn Holgate. Directed by Ruth Martin 

All are welcome to attend.
Registration for both the Workshop and Evening Programme required by 12 May - please contact Jane Lewin <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  (tel: 020 7862 8966)

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