Dear Colleagues,
please find below details of a workshop to be held at NTU on 27th June 2009 (with the kind support of the British Academy).
Everyone is welcome, please just let me know if you would be interested in coming.
If anyone would like to offer a paper on an aspect of Gustloff reception not covered in the programme, then please contact me.
Best wishes
Bill Niven
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"The Sinking of the 'Wilhelm Gustloff' in History and Memory"
Nottingham Trent, Clifton Campus, George Eliot Building
The workshop will probably begin at 11am, more details nearer the time.
Preliminary programme:
Sascha Howind (Hannover), "A Ship without Classes? The Wilhelm Gustloff and the Social Propaganda of the Third Reich"
Bill Niven (Nottingham), "The Forschungsstelle Ostsee: Who was to Blame for the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff?"
Christian Lotz (Leipzig), "Memory of the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and Cap Arcona in West and East Germany"
Karina Berger (Aberystwyth), "'Und es gab einen Bums, und das Schiff legte sich auf die Seite': The Portrayal of the Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in the Work of Walter Kempowski"
Axel Bangert (Cambridge), "A German Titanic? The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in Contemporary German Film"
Stephen Brockmann (Pittsburgh), "The Politics of German Suffering: Günter Grass's Crabwalk"
Benedict Schofield (London), "Popularising German Victimhood? Josef Vilsmaier's Gustloff Production as a 'Media Event'"
Eric Langenbacher (Washington), "Remnants of Loss: The Resurgence of the Memory of German Suffering and the Wilhelm Gustloff"
There may also be a paper by Rüdiger Stutz (Jena) on the Gustloff-Werke during the Third Reich and the post-war reception of this theme, but this has not been finalised yet.
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