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Conference
Wagner and Wagnerism:
Contexts - Connections - Controversies
9-10 August 2002
University of Limerick
Organised jointly by
Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick
Dept. of Music, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
Dept. of Music, University College Cork
National Youth Orchestra of Ireland
As part of the Wagner Ring Festival 2002
featuring a concert performance sung in German with English surtitles of
Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen
National Youth Orchestra of Ireland
in association with
Opera Ireland and University Concert Hall, Limerick
Conductor: Alexander Anissimov
Monday 5th August at 6 p.m. Das Rheingold
Tuesday 6th August at 6 p.m. Die Walküre
Thursday 8th August at 6 p.m. Siegfried
Saturday 10th August at 6 p.m. Götterdämmerung
University Concert Hall, Limerick
All Sessions will take place in FG025 in the Foundation Building.
Registration on Thursday, 8 August 2002, 14.00 to 18.00 and on Friday, 9
August 2002, from 8.30 onwards in the Foundation Building.
Thursday, 8 August 2002, 14.30 - 16.30.
As an introduction to the performance of the opera Siegfried in the evening
we present a first screening of Fritz Lang's Nibelungen 1. Teil: Siegfried
(1924) (117 min). The film will be shown again on Saturday, 10 August at
11.30.
Friday, 9 August 2002
9.15 - 9.30 Opening Ceremony
Session A: Philosophical Contexts
9.30 - 10.10 Dieter Borchmeyer (Heidelberg)
Richard Wagner and the myth of the beginning
and end of the world
10.10 - 10.50 Wilfried van der Will (Birmingham)
Nietzsche and Wagner
10.50 - 11.00 Discussion
11.00 - 11.20 Coffee
Session B: Women and Men
11.20 - 12.00 Susanne Vill (Bayreuth)
Women in the Ring: Ideals and ideologies of
womanhood in Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'
12.00 - 12.40 Barry Millington (London)
"Das ist kein Mann!": Problems with virility
in Wagner's 'Siegfried'
12.40 - 12.50 Discussion
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
Session C: Debates
14.30 - 15.10 Nike Wagner (Vienna)
Art, money and ideology: Reflections on the
Bayreuth Festivals
15.10 - 15.50 Marc Weiner (Indiana)
Following Wagner
15.50 - 16.00 Discussion
16.00 - 16.20 Coffee
Session D: Musical Connections
16.20 - 17.00 Peter Franklin (Oxford)
...aus ihm tönend?: Wagner and
post-Wagnerian opera and film
17.00 - 17.40 John Deathridge (London)
The 'Wesendonck Lieder' and 'Tristan'
17.40 - 17.50 Discussion
18.00 - 19.00 Reception incl. performance of Wagner's
Wesendonck-Lieder by
Suzanne Murphy
20.00 Conference Dinner in Plassey House
Session E: Wagner in Ireland
9.00 - 9.40 Joachim Fischer (Limerick)
Wagner, Bayreuth and the Irish image of
Germany
9.40 - 10.20 John Kelly (Oxford)
Wagner and Irish literature: Shaw, Moore,
Joyce, Yeats
10.20 - 10.30 Discussion
10.30 - 10.50 Coffee
Session F: Wagner and Film
10.50 - 11.30 David Levin (Chicago)
Wagner and Fritz Lang
11.30 - 13.30 Screening of Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen 1.
Teil: Siegfried (1924)
(117 min) (NB: This film will also be shown
on Thursday, 8 August at 14.30.)
13.30 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 16.30 Screening of Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen 2. Teil:
Kriemhilds Rache (1924) (130 min)
Exhibition of Wagner prints by Stephan Klenner-Otto
From 5-10 August 2002, as part of the Ring Festival 2002, a series of prints
on Wagnerian themes by German artist Stephan Klenner-Otto will be shown. The
prints will be for sale.
Speakers
Dieter Borchmeyer is Professor of German and Theatre Studies at the
University of Heidelberg. He is the editor of the Collected Works of Richard
Wagner and author /editor of numerous books on Wagner, including Richard
Wagner: Theory and Theatre, Richard Wagner. Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Ansichten des Mythos (with Udo Bermbach) and Richard Wagner und die Juden
(with Susanne Vill and Amy Maayani).
John Deathridge is King Edward Professor of Music at King's College, London.
He is the author/editor of The New Grove Wagner (with Carl Dahlhaus), the
Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV) (with Martin Geck and Egon Voss), Family
Letters of Richard Wagner and a new critical edition of Wagner's Lohengrin
as well as numerous articles on Wagner.
Joachim Fischer is Senior Lecturer in German and Joint Director of the
Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick. He has
published extensively in the field of Irish-German relations; recent
book-length studies are The Correspondence of Myles Dillon (1998) and Das
Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939: Geschichte - Form - Funktion [The Irish
image of Germany 1890-1939: History - Form - Function] (2000). He is joint
organizer of this conference.
Peter Franklin is Reader in Music, Fellow and Tutor of St. Catherine's
College, Oxford University. He is a specialist in late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century European music and culture, especially opera and the
symphony. He is the author of The Life of Mahler and contributed to the New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Grove Dictionary of
Opera.
John Kelly is Professor of English Literature and Fellow of St John's
College, Oxford University. He has edited numerous texts of 19th century
Anglo-Irish literature and is the general editor of The Collected Letters of
W. B. Yeats and The Cambridge Companion to Yeats (in progress).
David J. Levin is Associate Professor in the Departments of Germanic Studies
and Cinema/Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He has edited Opera
Through Other Eyes and co-edited the New German Critique special volume on
Richard Wagner. He is the author of Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the
Nibelungen. In addition to his academic work, David Levin has served as a
dramaturgist for the Frankfurt Opera, the Bremen Opera, and the Frankfurt
Ballet.
Barry Millington is a writer on music and Reviews Editor for the BBC Music
Magazine. He is the author/editor of seven books on Wagner, including
Wagner, The Wagner Compendium and The Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion, and
also contributed the articles on Wagner and his operas to The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
Wilfried van der Will is Professor of Modern German Studies, University of
Birmingham. He has published numerous books and essays on German literature
and society post-1945, on culture in the Third Reich and on the reception of
Nietzsche. He also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Modern German
Culture.
Susanne Vill is a musicologist and Professor of Theatre Studies at the
University of Bayreuth. She worked in the concept team of Pipers
Enzyklopaedie des Musiktheaters and organized the congress Ausbildung für
Musiktheater-Berufe to start the Bavarian Theatre Academy. As a singer she
specialized in contemporary music, performing in numerous concerts and
broadcasts. She has staged operas and plays and has produced several
television documentaries focussing on theatre festivals. She has published
on Mahler, Mozart and contemporary intercultural theatre. She edited Richard
Wagner und die Juden (with Dieter Borchmeyer and Amy Maayani) and Das Weib
der Zukunft: Frauengestalten und Frauenstimmen bei Richard Wagner.
Nike Wagner, great granddaughter of Richard Wagner, is a literary scholar,
music critic, cultural commentator and dramaturgist. She wrote her doctoral
thesis on Karl Kraus and is the author of Wagner Theater (The Wagners: The
Dramas of a Musical Dynasty) and Traumtheater. Szenarien der Moderne (2001).
Marc A. Weiner is Professor of Germanic Studies, Director of the Institute
of German Studies and Adjunct Professor in Comparative Literature,
Communication and Culture (Film Studies), and Cultural Studies at Indiana
University, Bloomington. Among his fields of interest are nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century literary and cultural studies of Germany and
Austria, German and Austrian music, opera and ideology and German-Jewish
relations. He is the author of Arthur Schnitzler and the Crisis of Musical
Culture (1985), Undertones of Insurrection: Music, Politics, and the Social
Sphere in the Modern German Narrative (1993) and Richard Wagner and the
Anti-Semitic Imagination (1995), published in Germany as Antisemitische
Fantasien: Die Musikdramen Richard Wagners (2000).
Organizing Committee
Dr Gareth Cox, Senior Lecturer and Head of Dept. of Music, Mary Immaculate
College, University of Limerick. Dr Joachim Fischer, Senior Lecturer in
German; Joint Director, Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of
Limerick. Dr Marieke Krajenbrink, Lecturer in German, Dept. of Languages and
Cultural Studies, University of Limerick. Dr Christopher Morris, Lecturer in
Music, Dept. of Music, University College Cork.
We gratefully acknowledge the assistance provided by the Goethe Institute,
Dublin; The President of the University of Limerick; Mary Immaculate
College; Arts Faculty Conference Fund, UCC; Plassey Campus Centre; Embassy
of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dublin.
Conference Booking Form
Wagner and Wagnerism:
Contexts - Connections - Controversies
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