Just a reminder about the Fontane centenary event this Friday 4 Dec in London at the Institute of Germanic Studies: Fontane at the End of the Century PROGRAMME 11.30 Welcome 11.40 Schach von Wuthenow: Interpreters and Interpretants (James Bowman, Cambridge) 12.20 Fontane and Menzel (Andrea Baernreuter, Berlin) 2.30 Fontane and Georg Hermann's Berlin. Relationbships to comtemporary painting (Godela Weiss-Sussex, De Montfort) 3.10 The Melusinian and its expression in Fontane's male as well as female characters (Susanna Braithwaite, Birmingham) 4.10 Grossstaedter in der Provinz: Topographie bei Fontane und Joseph Roth (Helen Chambers, Leeds) 4.40 Making Effi Briest a Classic Serial (Hugh Rorrison, Leeds) Hope to see some of you there. Helen Chambers %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%