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The 'Good German' in Literature and Culture

Thursday, 1 - Friday, 2 October 2009

Co-Ordinators: Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Ulster) and Christiane Schönfeld (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)

Programme

Thursday, 1 October 2009
Room 274/275, Stewart House

  9.30 Registration

10.00 Welcome and Introduction

10.15 Keynote Lecture
Maeve Cooke (Dublin): Re-Presenting the Good Citizen. Philosophical Reflections

11.15 Coffee

11.45 Andrew Wisely (Baylor, Texas): Ramp Duty under Duress: Franz Lucas, Superfluity, and Arendt’s ‘Auschwitz on Trial’

12.15 Kevin de Ornellas (Ulster): Macbeth, not Henry V: Shakespearean Allegory in the Construction of Vercors’ ‘Good German’

12.45 Discussion

13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.15 Keynote Lecture
Birgit Maier-Katkin (Florida): Good Germans? Cultural Representations and Outside Perspectives

15.15 Joachim Fischer (Limerick): A Good Irish German: In Praise of Hugo Hamilton’s Mother

15.45 Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Ulster): Defining the ‘Good’ in  Joseph Kanon’s Good German

16.15 Discussion

16.30 Tea

17.00 Presentation and Discussion
Susanne Beer and Marten Düring (Essen): ‘Helping Behaviour in Interdisciplinary Perspective’

19.00 At the Russell Restaurant, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1

Conference Dinner (further details)


Friday, 2 October 2009
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House

  9.30 Lynn Kutch (Pennsylvania):The Writer as the Good and Ethical German: Ilse Langner’s Flucht ohne Ziel

10.00 Sabine Egger (Limerick): The ‘Good German’ between Silence and Artistic Deconstruction of an Inhumane World: Johannes Bobrowski’s Narratives ‘Mäusefest’ and ‘Der Tänzer Malige’

10.30 Matthias Uecker (Nottingham): The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? The ‘Good German’ and her Others in Heinrich Böll’s Gruppenbild mit Dame

11.00 Discussion

11.15 Coffee

11.45 Christiane Schönfeld (Limerick): Being Human: ‘Good Germans’ in German Rubble Films

12.15 Alexandra Ludewig (UWA, Crawley): ‘The Banality of Good’ in Contemporary German Cinema

12.45 Coman Hamilton (Freiburg/Br.): The Cultural Memory of Good and Evil Germans in Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage

13.15 Discussion

13.30 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.30 Eoin Bourke (Berlin/Galway): The Hazards of Literary Memorialization: Heinz Knobloch’s Der beherzte Reviervorsteher. Ungewöhnliche Zivil-courage am Hackeschen Markt and the Case of Wilhelm Schützfeld

15.00 Karina Lindeiner-Strasky (Aberystwyth): ‘Pflicht zur Verantwortung’ or ‘kulturpolitische Parade-pferde’? Artists as Good Germans in the (West) German Media since 1945

15.30 Jon Hughes (London): From Hitler’s Champion to ‘Jahrhundertdeutscher’: on the Representation and Reinvention of Max Schmeling

16.00 Discussion and Wine

17.00 End of Conference

 

Further Information and Registration Details

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, 16 September 2009.

Conference Fees

Both Days
£50.00
£45.00 Reduced Rate
£30.00 Student Rate

1 Day
£30.00
£25.00 Reduced Rate
£20.00 Student Rate

Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies or paying members of the IGRS only
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only

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This event is supported by the

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Joseph Kanon Reading and Interview

In conjunction with this conference, Joseph Kanon gave a reading from his novel The Good German, a recording of which can be viewed by clicking on the link below.

Joseph Kanon's work has achieved critical acclaim as well as gathering a large readership. His first novel, 'Los Alamos' (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. 'The Good German' (2001) was adapted for the cinema screen in 2006 (directed by Steven Soderbergh and starred George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. Focusing on Hitler’s willing or passive collaborators, it raises profound ethical questions.

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We are grateful to the Coffin Trust of the University of London for sponsoring this event