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This one-day symposium is open to members of the Fontane-Kreis GB und Irland
Applications for membership should be addressed to Dr Patricia  Howe : email -- [log in to unmask]

Fontane-Kreis Großbritannien und Irland

 

German Historical Institute, London

17, Bloomsbury Square, London WC 1A 2NJ

 

Theodor Fontane and his contemporaries

 

Friday, October 25th 2013

 

 

Programme (provisional)

 

10.00     Welcome

 

10.10                      Dr. Rudolf Muhs (Royal Holloway, University of London)

“Towerbrand” and “Schwarzwaldhaus”. On Fontane's Use of Visual Sources in Poetry and Prose.

 

10.45                     Carmen Aus der Au (Universität Zürich)

Fontanes Realismusverständnis im Spiegel der Malerei William Turners, William Hogarths und der Präraffaeliten

               

11.30                     Coffee

 

12.00                     Anna-Maria Post (Universität Erfurt)

Zu Berthold Auerbachs Poetik der volkstümlichen Literatur und deren Verhältnis zu Theodor Fontanes Realismusverständnis

 

12. 40                    Dagmar Paulus (University of Nottingham)

Unfinished Business: Ghosts and Collective memory in Wilhelm Raabe’s Historical Novels

 

1.30                        Lunch

 

2.30                        Iris Schaefer (Universität Frankfurt)

Psychisch kranke Kindfrauen in Fontanes Romanen: Cécile und Effi Briest

 

3.15                        Tanja Hagedorn (Universität Mannheim)

Die Humorverwendung in Erzähltexten Theodor Fontanes am Beispiel von Effi Briest.

 

 

4.15                        Close of meeting

 

 

6.00 (approximately)

                                By kind invitation of Dr. Rudolf Muhs, buffet supper at

                                168B, St. Paul’s Road, Islington, N.1