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Status: June, 26th 2007

Dates and Participants

The following dates and participants are already confirmed:

Berlin:
Saturday, June the 2nd, 2007, literature forum, "Brechthaus", 3:00pm - 6:00pm


"The cruel 20th century and death"


Reading: 3:00pm - 4:00pm:

Sophie Rois reads „Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen“ by Anna Seghers

Panel discussion: 4:30pm - 6:00pm

In the 20th century violence manifested itself in society as a "conditio humana in multifaceted and barbaric ways. No other century had more cases of violent death than the 20th. Is history nothing but a slaughter house? Do the traces of death and violence have a male character?

Participants:

Prof. Thomas Macho is professor in cultural history; dean of the faculty of philosophy III of the Humboldt University in Berlin and co-founder of the "Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik". His various publications especially include essays about death. Furthermore he chaired a conference about "the new conspicuousness of death" in the "Haus der Begegnung".

Prof. D. Wolfgang Wippermann is professor at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute of the "Freie Universität" in Berlin and trustee of the Thuringian memorial centers (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora). With reference to the catastrophes of the 20th century his publications deal with the problems of fascism, national socialism and racism.

Prof. D. Sonat Hart: After having studied at Earlham College, King's College at University of London and the University of Oxford Prof. D. Sonat Hart now holds the Walter-Benjamin chair of German-Jewish culture and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her publications deal with the (literary usage of) the Shoah, the modern Jewish culture and especially the role of Jewish women.

Presentation: Corinna Emundts




Weimar: Saturday, June 9th, 2007, "Fürstengruft" at the "Historischer Friedhof", 3:00pm - 6:00pm


"The death of God in times of religious revival"


Reading: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Petra Hartung and Friedhelm Ptok will read "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and "The Gay Science" by Friedrich Nietzsche

Panel discussion: 4:30pm - 6:00pm

"God is dead"- even those who don`t know Nietzsche know this quotation. The "antichrist" finds the best formula for the epoch of secularization. Faust's answer to Gretchen's famous question in Goethe's drama is implicitly negative; he is said to have "a lack of faith". In the present day, however, God seems once again to be gaining importance on the cultural stage How does our secular society deal with this challenge?

Participants:

Prof. D. Gabriele Steckmeister, sociologist at the Institute of European ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin has recently been researching graveyard and burial customs and will hold a seminar about their intercultural aspects in summer semester 2007.

Dr. Daniel Weidner is director of the project "(dis)figuration of the scripture. Bible philology and literature in modern times" at the center for literature and cultural studies in Berlin. The studied philosopher focuses on relations between religious and secular forms of expression or forms of memory and the history of the animadversion of the bible and religious studies. His publications include Gershom Scholem and also cultural scientific perspectives on "Figuren des Europäischen" (2006).

Prof D. Wilhelm Gräb is dean of the Theological faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Additionally, he is lecturer for practical theology and leads the Institute for religious sociology and church organisation. His independent publications deal with the transformation of the religious in modern culture (2006) as well as with religion in the media society.

Presentation: Marie Neumüllers




Dresden:
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007, ballroom of the"Palais", "Großer Garten", 8:30pm - 10:00pm


"Fairy-tale and modernity"


Reading: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Margarita Broich and Frank Arnold will read "Die Geheimnisse der Prinzessin von Kagran" by Ingeborg Bachmann and "The Heroic Testament" by Irmtraud Morgner

Panel discussion:

Fairy-tales in their traditional form of presentation are difficult to find on today's media scene. "Disneyfication" gives the fairy-tales by the Grimm-brothers the up-to-date touch. Adaptations in comics and movies put old fairy-tale figures into a new medium.

In literature adaptions can be found in many different forms. Are the diversity and the magic of fairy-tales slipping away or are new perspectives and forms arising?

Participants:

Christine Shojaei Kawan

D.Wolfgang Lange is private lecturer for linguistics and study of literature at the University of Bielefeld. He published the book: "Der kalkulierte Wahnsinn. Innenansichten ästhetischer Moderne" among other books. In winter semester 2006/07 he hold a seminar about fairy-tale and modernity.

Prof. D. Walter Schmitz holds the chair of new German literature study and is director of the center for Central Europe for political, economic and cultural science of the Technical University in Dresden. In winter semester 2004/05 he held an introduction to the circle of lectures about "Fairy-tale - the tradition of narration of the folk in the media scene of today".

Presentation: Marie Neumüllers




Stuttgart:
Saturday, June, the 30th, 2007, White Room of the "Castle Solitude" 7:00pm - 10:00pm


"Lust and love in fairy-tales"


Reading: (7:00pm - 8.00pm):

Michaela Steiger and Matthias Scherwenikas will read "Amor und Psyche" from the novel "Der goldene Esel" by Apuleius and "Das Marmorbild" by Joseph von Eichendorff

Panel discussion: 8:30pm - 10:00pm

The longing for everlasting love and a life in inseparable togetherness is the reason for every heroic action in fairy-tales. What erotic symbolism and lecherous ambiguity lie beneath such an innocent plot, you will only find out at a second glance. Do fairy-tales recount taboos and secret fantasies of love and Eros in our past society?

Participants:

After having studied musical science, German studies, Latin philology, history of art and folklore Prof. D. em. Dietz-Rüdiger Moser is lecturer for history of Bavarian culture at the University of Munich. His publications deal with fairy-tale in process and fairy-tale theatres from the perspective of present narrative studies, theoretical and methodical problems of the fairy-tale studies and different forms of fairy-tale tradition.

D. Sandra Kluwe is assistant lecturer at the Institute of literature at the University of Karlsruhe. She published numerous scientific articles and recensions, such as "Psyche" in the FAZ. Main topics include psychoanalysis and fairy-tales.

Jürgen Janning published the book " Liebe und Eros im Märchen". He has been lecturer for elocution classes at the Westphalian Wilhelm University in Münster for 36 years. From 1983 till 1989 he was president of the European fairy-tale association and has been chairman of the Walter Kahn fairy-tale foundation in Munich since 2002.

Presentation: Barbara Wahlster




Kindly supported by

"Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten“







Biesdorf:
Sunday, July 15th, 2007, "Castle Biesdorf", 4:30pm - 6:00pm


"Intercultural aspects in fairy-tales"


Reading: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Jule Böwe and Herbert Fritsch will read "Nukanbuku und Komenbuku" and "Hansel in der Asche", the Japanese and the Alsatian version of the "Aschenputtel"-motive.

Panel discussion:

Are fairy-tales really the soul of a people? The philological research of the Grimm-brothers was the beginning of modern literary folklore. Their stories reflect a culture, with their values and regularity. What do fairy-tales really tell us about a culture? What are similarities and differences between the two?

Participants:

Prof. D. Sabine Wienker-Piepho had several university teaching positions all over the world. From 2005 till 2007 she managed the Institute of Folklore/European Ethnology at the "LMU München". She habilitated on "writing in ethno text: folk lyrics about writing and writer". Additionally she was editor in chief of the "Märchenspiegel" and has been president of the international commission for folk lyrics and member of various international committees since 2005.

D. Kurt Derungs is a specialist in German studies, ethnologist and researcher on fairy-tales and myths. He is lecturer at the "HdK" in Bern and works internationally as a guest speaker and seminar leader. He published the book: "Amalia oder Der Vogel der Wahrheit - Mythen und Märchen aus Rätien im Kulturvergleich" among a number of other books, in which he focuses on the reasons for landscape mythology.

D. Kathrin Pöge-Alder is scientific co-chair for folklore of the "University Jena". Fairy-tale-and narration research is part of her scientific work. Her latest publication deals with theories, methods and interpretations of fairy-tale research (2007).

Presentation: Marie Neumüllers




Heidelberg:
Saturday, July 28th, 2007, "Bergfriedhof"(Reading)/Hilde-Domin Room of the public library(Disc.), 4:30pm - 6.00pm


"Death and the girls"


Reading: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Astrid Gorvin and Matthias Scherwenikas will read from poems by Hilde Domin and from Ovid: Metamorphoses - "Orpheus and Eurydike" translated by Johann Heinrich Voß

Panel discussion:

In 1846 Edgar Allan Poe wrote: "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." The stylization of the female body as an image for covetousness is in its twist between Eros and Thanotos an image that is often used in the Occidental culture. How is this phenomenon of fascination on the one hand and taboo on the other hand, seen from a feminist point of view?

Participants:

Prof. D. Thomas Anz is professor in new literature at the University of Marburg. In his publications he tackles the matter of the motive of death in its diverse forms of appearance. ("The good and the bad death. Classic and modern norms of literary discourses about death.")

Prof. D. Ute Jung-Kaiser is lecturer in musical pedagogy at the University of Music and Visual Arts in Frankfurt am Main. Major aspects of her work are interdisciplinary scientific-artistic symposia in different departments and in artistic practice.

Prof. Dr. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky is manager of the Institute for media science at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In addition to media science she focuses on Cultural Theory and Gender Studies. The issues in her publications vary from Walter Benjamin to Lara Croft (Suhrkamp 2001, presently out of print).

Presentation: Marie Neumüllers