Heinrich Böll and Ireland - 50 years Irisches Tagebuch
University of Limerick 30.08.-1.09.2007
Centre for Irish-German Studies
10th anniversary Conference
THURSDAY, 30.08.2007
Registration 1.00-2.00 Engineering Building, University of Limerick, ERB0009
2.00 Dromroe Village Hall, University of Limerick
Opening of Art Exhibition - René Böll, Günter Beckers
Irish works and works inspired by the Irisches Tagebuch and Ireland
2.45 ERB0001 (all lectures of the conference will take place here)
Opening Conference
Prof Vincent Cunnane, Vice-President of the University of Limerick
Irish-German literary and cultural connections
- the broader view
Chair: Dr Joachim Fischer, UL
Prof Patrick O'Neill, Kingston, Canada
'Kennst du das Land?' Ireland and the German Literary Imagination
Prof Eda Sagarra, Dublin
Heinrich Böll: the Father of German Tourism in Ireland
4.30 Coffee/Tea
5.00 Political connections and developments in comparison
Chair:
Antje Schlamm, Director DAAD London
Speakers:
John Gormley, Minister for the Environment & Local Government
Dr Martin Mansergh, T.D.
H.E. David Donoghue, Irish Ambassador in Germany
H.E. Christian Pauls, German Ambassador in Ireland
H.E. Sean O'Huiginn, Irish Ambassador in Italy (formerly in Germany)
6.30 Millstream Common Room
Launch of Irish-German Studies III
edited by G. Holfter and H.W. Schmidt-Hannisa
Wine reception & Supper
(sponsored by the German Embassy and UL's President's office)
7.30 Reading by Hugo Hamilton
Die gesprächige Insel - Irisches Tagebuch
FRIDAY, 31.08.2007
9.30-11.00 ERB0001 (all lectures of the conference will take place here)
Heinrich Böll's Irish Journal and heritage today - Achill Island
Chair: John McHugh, Secretary Böll Committee, Achill
Speakers:
René Böll, Köln
John F Deane, Dublin (Initiator Böll Cottage, Achill)
Dr Edward King, Achill (President Böll Committee, Achill)
Dr Hermann Rasche, Galway
11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.30-1.00 New perspectives on Böll the writer
Chair: Prof emer. Ian Wallace, Bath
Speakers:
Thorsten Päplow, Göteborg, Sweden
New Perspectives on Heinrich Böll's 'Irish Journal'
Dr Jochen Schubert, Böll Archive Cologne
Zur Poetik des Tagebuchs
Bill O'Keeffe, Bodensee/Limerick
Western Approaches - Böll in Normandy and Ireland
1.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Not only Böll I - Irish-German literary links since WWII
Chair: Hans-Christian Oeser, Dublin
Speakers:
Prof Emer. Eoin Bourke, Berlin/Galway
Hagena, Joyce and the sea
Dr Marieke Krajenbrink, Limerick
Leonie Swann's sheep mystery 'Glennkill'
Dr Sabine Egger, Limerick
Wilhelm Lehmann and Ireland
3.30 Coffee/Tea
4.00-5.30 Not only Böll II - Irish-German literary links
from the writers' perspective (Roundtable)
Chair: Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes
Speakers:
Eva Bourke, member of Aosdána, Galway/Berlin
Hugo Hamilton, Dublin
Gabriel Rosenstock
6.00 ERB0001
Film: Heinrich Böll's Children of Eire
7.00 Plassey House
Conference dinner (optional)
Afterwards
Irish-German Poetry
Irish Launch of Ausgewählte Gedichte" (Edition Rugerup) and Reading by Gabriel Rosenstock / Hans Christian Oeser
SATURDAY, 1.09.2007
9.30-11.00 ERB0001
Art & Music - Personal Reflections
Chair: Dr Susan Tebbutt, Limerick/London
Speakers:
Imogen Stuart, Dublin
John Kelly, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Limerick
Wolfgang Hoffmann, Director Dublin Fringe Festival
11.00-11.30 Coffee/Tea
11.30-13.00 Roundtable discussion:
Language, culture and the media - a look into the future - challenges and chances
Chair: Elmar Conrads-Hassel, German-Ireland Fund
Speakers:
Antje Schlamm, Director DAAD London
Rolf Stehle, Director Goethe-Institut
Derek Scally, Irish Times, Berlin
Ralf Sotscheck, taz - Dublin
During Thursday and Friday of the conference there will be guided tours through the exhibition "Heinrich Böll - Life and Work" Glucksman Library, Ground Floor, by Markus Schäfer, Böll Archiv Cologne.
Katja Kaboth, DAAD Lektor at UL, will provide an English commentary and Dr In Mo Jeong, President of the Korean Heinrich-Böll-Gesellschaft, will provide information on the Böll research in South Korea.
Times: Thursday, 1pm and 2.30pm; Friday, 5.30pm
Conference Organizer:
Dr Gisela Holfter
Senior Lecturer in German and Joint Director Centre for Irish-German Studies
For inquiries and registration please contact Claudia Reese, Conference Secretary: [log in to unmask]
The conference is supported by
German Embassy Dublin, German Ireland Fund, Goethe-Institut Dublin
Heinrich Böll Archiv, Cologne, Tourism Ireland, University of Limerick: Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, College of Humanities Research Board, UL Research and President's Office
See also
http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/Irish-German/index.php?inhalt=events
Podcast on NDLR Modern Languages:
http://www.ndlr.ie/modlang/blog/
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