Events
The 2011 Conference organised by the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
Wednesday, 14 - Friday, 16 September 2011
Venue: Rooms ST 273, ST 274/275 and ST 276 Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
13.00 Registration
13.30 Welcome and Introduction by Godela Weiss-Sussex (IGRS) and J.M. Ritchie (Chair, Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies)
Broadcasting (Chair: J.M. Ritchie)
14.00 Charmian Brinson (London): The Go-Between. Martin Miller in Broadcasting
14.30 Jennifer Taylor (London): Is there Life after Kurt und Willi? Bruno Adler’s Radio Series Die zwei Genossen
15.00 Ursula Seeber (Vienna) and Barbara Weidle (Bonn): England but not Mine. Großbritannien in der journalistischen und Filmarbeit von Edmund Wolf
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Tea
Dance (Chair: Marian Malet)
16.30 Clare Lidbury (Wolverhampton): Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder: Refugees, Battle and Aftermath
17.00 Thomas Kampe (London): Between Three Worlds. The Choreographer Hilde Holger in London
17.30 Discussion
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Theatre (Chair: Anthony Grenville)
10.00 Marian Malet (London): Litz Pisk: Dancer, Theatre Practitioner and Graphic Artist
10.30 Manya Elrick (London): 'Möglichst nahe am Original' - Erich Fried, Poet, Transltor and would-be Performer
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Richard Dove (London): Alter Ego. How Gerhard Hinze became Gerard Heinz
12.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
Theatre (Chair: Charmian Brinson)
14.00 Anna Nyburg (London): Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag and the Theatre: Vienna, Rome, London
Theatre (Chair: Deborah Vietor-Engländer)
14.30 Günther Rühle (Frankfurt/M.): Vom Englischen ins Deutsche: Peter Zadeks Welt
15.00 Tea
15.30 Anthony Grenville (London): Lutz Weltmann, Theatre Critic and Cultural Mediator in the AJR Information
Music (Chair: Richard Dove)
16.00 Bernard Keefe (London): German as a Language of Music
16.30 Discussion
17.00 Continental Britons. A Film Presentation by Bea Lewkowicz (London)
Friday, 16 September 2011
Film (Chair: Jennifer Taylor)
09.30 Erica Carter (London): Emigrés and British Cinema. From Industry to Audience
10.00 Christian Cargnelli (Vienna): Von Adolf Wohlbrück zu Anton Walbrook – Identitäten eines kontinentalen Briten
10.30 Coffee
11.00 In Memoriam Jens Brüning: A Short Tribute by Wilfried Weinke (Hamburg) and Others
11.30 Brigitte Mayr and Michael Omasta (Vienna): Der Mann, den sie Su nannten. Der Fotograf und Kameramann Wolf Suschitzky
12.00 Closing Discussion
12.15 End of Conference
To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Friday, 2 September 2011.
Conference Fees
All Days
£60.00
£55.00 Reduced Rate
£35.00 Student Rate
1 Day
£40.00
£35.00 Reduced Rate
£25.00 Student Rate
Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies, Friends of Italian Studies, or paying members of the IGRS only
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only
This conference is organised under the auspices of the
Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Trust
and supported by the
