Dear Colleagues,
Below are details of a major conference on German Life-
Writing/Autobiography in the 20th Century, to be held at the University of
Nottingham, UK from 24-26 March 2007. If you wish to attend, please return
a completed registration form by 12 March.
Regards
Birgit Dahlke (Berlin)
Dennis Tate (Bath)
Roger Woods (Nottingham)
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German Life-Writing in the Twentieth Century
International, interdisciplinary conference from 24-26 March 2007 at the
University of Nottingham, UK
Saturday 24 March
2-3pm Registration
3pm Welcome Roger Woods, Nottingham
3.15pm The Purposes and Problems of Life-Writing Roger Woods, Nottingham
3.45pm Autobiographie und Geschichtsschreibung – eine kritische
Bestandsaufnahme Karolin Machtans, Cambridge.
4.15pm Taking history personally - the case of the GDR Dorothee Wierling,
Hamburg
4.45-5.45pm Discussion
6.30pm Champagne Reception (Library)
7pm Dinner
8.30pm Reading by Annett Gröschner from Jeder hat sein eigenes Stück
Berlin gekriegt and from work in progress, followed by discussion
Sunday 25 March
9am Autobiographische Texte, Authentizität und Verläßlichkeit, und das
sich wandelnde bundesrepublikanische Selbstverständnis Magnus Brechtken,
Nottingham
9.30am Vom Erleben zum Erinnern – Soldatenbriefe aus dem ersten Weltkrieg
Holger Brohm, Berlin
10am From Das Antliz des Weltkrieges to Der gefährliche Augenblick:
Autobiography, Photography, and Modernity in Ernst Jünger Jonathan Long,
Durham
10.30-11am Discussion
11am Coffee
11.30am More Dichtung than Wahrheit? A Reappraisal of Veza and
Elias Canetti’s Autobiographical Writings in the Light of the Briefe an
Georges and other Nachlass Material Julian Preece, Kent
12.00 midday Die Shoah vor der Shoah. Zur literarischen Technik der
Anspielung in Elias Canettis Autobiographie Anne Dorothea Peiter, Paris
12.30-1pm Discussion
1-2pm Lunch
2.15pm Reassessing Marbot: Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Biographical Ruse Mary
Cosgrove, Edinburgh
2.45pm Günter Grass`s autobiographical writings and the changing face of
authorship in Germany’s media age Rebecca Braun, Liverpool
3.15pm Transmuting Autobiographical Confession: Conformism and Resistance
in Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel and Joachim Fest's Ich nicht
Anne Fuchs, Dublin
3. 45pm Discussion
4.15-4.45pm Tea
5pm „... und alle erfüllt von einem zu jedem Opfer bereiten
Idealismus...“ Autobiographien als Zeugnisse der Konstruktion
nationalsozialistischer Identitäten Nicole Welter, Berlin; Sandra Kirsch,
Mainz.
5.30pm Affekt und Narration, Abrechnung und autobiographische
Autorschaft. Niklas Frank: Der Vater. Eine Abrechnung (1987), Niklas
Frank: Meine deutsche Mutter (2005) Birgit Dahlke, Berlin
6-6.30pm Discussion
7pm Dinner
8.30pm Life-writing and writing lives: ego-documents in historical
perspective Mary Fulbrook, London
Monday 26 March
9am Dis-membering the Past, Re-membering the Self: An interrogation of
disability narratives by Luise Habel (Herrgott, schaff die Treppen ab!
1978) and Christa Reinig (Die himmlische und die irdische Geometrie 1975)
Pauline Eyre, Manchester
9.30am Projecting Oneself into History: Autobiography and Public Memory
in Konrad Wolf’s I was 19 Anke Pinkert, Illinois, USA
10am ‘Zeuge zu sein’. Grete Weil’s continued confrontation with the
Past Joanne Sayner, Birmingham
10.30am Discussion
11am Coffee
11.30am ‘mein jahrgang, dreiundsechzig’: Changing the Subject of Recent
German Poetry Karen Leeder, Oxford
12 midday Shifting perspectives and self-reconstruction. Christa
Wolf`s Leibhaftig as the culmination of an evolving autobiographical
project Dennis Tate, Bath
12.30 Discussion
1-2pm Lunch
2pm Die autobiographischen Texte der DDR-Spitzenfunktionäre Ute
Hirsekorn, Nottingham
2.30pm “Ein reines Phantasieprodukt?” - Günter de Bruyn, Autobiography
and the Stasi Files Sara Jones, Nottingham
3.00pm Discussion
3.30 Tea
4pm Taking Stock: The Place of Life-Writing Birgit
Dahlke/Dennis Tate
5pm Publication of Proceedings, Research Network Roger Woods
5.15 Conference ends
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Registration Form
Name: (as you wish it to appear on nametag):
Affiliation:
Address:
E-mail address:
Any special facilities required for participants with a disability?
Any special dietary requirements?
Conference Fees: (to be paid by start of conference)
Fee for attendance, full accommodation and meals: £150
Fee for attendance and meals (no accommodation): £75
Fee for postgraduate students (attendance, full
accommodation and meals): £100
Fee for postgraduate students - attendance and
meals, (no accommodation) £50
Total payment:
Cheques should be made payable to: University of Nottingham. Please
complete this form and return with payment to Victoria Smith, Dept of
German Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England.
Overseas participants should email the registration form to Victoria Smith
at [log in to unmask] and pay upon arrival.
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