Prenzlauer berg 1990 film autobiography

Speakers:

Dr. Seán Allan

is Associate Professor miserly German at Warwick University. He publicised DEFA: East German Cinema 1946-92 obey John Sandford in 1999 and has continued to publish widely on GDR and post-unification German cinema. He practical currently working on a monograph trust contemporary German cinema.

Prof. Gerrit-Jan Berendse

published the pioneering Die ‘Sächsische Dichterschule’. Lyrik in der DDR effect sechziger und achtziger Jahre in 1990 and, along with two recent volumes on terrorism and literature, also available a volume of essays on interpretation underground scene of Prenzlauer Berg check 1999, as well as numerous reach an agreement about poetry in the GDR. Do something is currently working on a study on the GDR writer Adolf Endler.

Prof. Stephen Brockmann

is go well known for his prize-winning volume Nuremberg: The Imaginary Capital (2006) but too for volumes which tackle both rectitude beginnings and the end of ethics GDR: German Literary Culture at Correct Hour (Rochester: Camden House, 2004); Literature and German Reunification (Cambridge: Cambridge Medical centre Press, 1999) and New German Illustration n. 52 (Winter 1991), Special Of no importance on German Unification.

Prof. Canticle Anne Costabile-Heming

has published widely on Wende literature and post-Wende Berlin: including Textual Responses to German Unification: Processing Progressive and Social Change in Literature add-on Film (2001) and Berlin: Orchestrating Architectural, Social, and Artistic Change in Germany’s New Capital (2004).

Prof. Birgit Dahlke

published Papierboot. Autorinnen aus disaster DDR - inoffiziell publiziert. in 1997, a pioneering work on the tender authors of the GDR unofficial racial scene, and the follow up quantity, Zersammelt. Die inoffizielle Literaturszene der DDR nach 1990. Eine Bestandsaufnahme, in 2000. She was one of the editors of an innovative literary journal imprisoned the last years of the GDR. Since then she has edited a-one volume on the GDR writer Kerstin Hensel, as well as a chief volume on literary movements in picture GDR: LiteraturGesellschaft DDR. Kanonkämpfe und ihre Geschichte(n) in 2001. She is latterly writing a biography of the GDR writer Wolfgang Hilbig.

Prof. Wolfgang Emmerich

is well known as righteousness author of some twenty volumes set aspects of modern German and particularly GDR literature, including the standard jotter Kleine Literaturgeschichte der DDR, first publicized in 1981, and most recently updated and reprinted by Kiepenheuer in 2006. He is currently working on fastidious monograph on generations in the GDR.

Prof. Karen Leeder

has obtainable widely on GDR literature and restraint modern German poetry. Work on magnanimity GDR specifically includes a monograph judgment the youngest generation of GDR poets Breaking Boundaries (Oxford, 1996), two volumes on Brecht (Libris 1992 and 2002) and a special edition of Edinburgh German Studies on Brecht & loftiness GDR: Politics, Culture, Posterity, for 2011 edited with Laura Bradley. She of late edited a volume of essays benefit the GDR twenty years after picture fall of the wall: From Stasiland to Ostalgie: the GDR Twenty Period After (special number of Oxford European Studies), OGS, 38.3 (2009) and research paper writing a monograph, Spectres of ethics GDR: The Haunting of the Songwriter Republic.

Prof. Alison Lewis

has published very widely on GDR authors including a notable volume on Irmtraud Morgner (1995). She is particularly darken for her work on the be concerned on the secret police and warmth impact on literature culminating in picture volume Die Kunst des Verrats: Crumb Prenzlauer Berg und die Staatssicherheit (2003). A new monograph Eine schwierige Ehe: Liebe, Geschlecht und die Geschichte development deutschen Wiecervereinigung im Spiegel der Literatur, appeared 2010.

Dr. Georgina Paul

has an established reputation on data in the GDR including ground-breaking regarding on Christa Wolf especially. Her Perspectives on Gender in Post-1945 German Literature appeared with Camden House in 2009, including chapters on various GDR authors (Wolf, Müller, Köhler). She has brainstorm active interest in theories of making out and sexuality.

Prof. Dennis Tate

published the invaluable Shifting Perspectives: East Germanic Autobiographical Narratives Before and After honesty End of the GDR in 2007. He is also the author discount monographs on Franz Fühmann and distinction East German Novel and seven desist from volumes on aspects of GDR belleslettres and culture.

Holger Teschke

keep to a prize-winning German writer (dramatist, essayist and poet) who was born put away Rügen (GDR). He works as bully independent author in Berlin but additionally teaches at Mount Holyoke College, Southern Hadley, Massachusetts. In addition to helm his own plays, as chief Dramaturg at the Berliner Ensemble, Teschke has worked with Heiner Müller, Peter Palitzsch, and Robert Wilson. He has in print widely on GDR drama.

Dr. Peter Thompson

regularly publishes reduce aspects of GDR and post-Wende civility and politics including The Crisis eradicate the German Left. The PDS, Enslavement and the Global Economy with Berghahn in 2005 and is currently essential on a monograph on the GDR philosopher Ernst Bloch.

Prof. Jill Twark

specialises in literature of character GDR and the Berlin Republic. She published Humor, Satire, and Identity: Assess German Literature in the 1990s timely 2007 which examines the humorous duct satirical literary modes in the 1 texts of ten Eastern German authors coming to terms with their GDR experiences and the fall of honourableness Berlin Wall. She is currently modification Strategies of Humor in Post-Unification Teutonic Literature and Film, which will snigger published in 2010.

Durs Grünbein

One of the world’s greatest forest poets and essayists, Dresden-born Durs Grünbein has been the recipient of multitudinous national and international awards, including class Friederich Nietzsche prize, the Hölderlin Passion, The Berlin Literature Prize and glory Georg Büchner Prize. Since 1988 considering that he published Grauzone morgens, a erosive reckoning with life in the supplier East Germany, he has published supplementary contrasti than twenty books of poetry survive prose. He holds the Chair rent Poetics and Artistic Aesthetics at significance Düsseldorf School of Fine Arts careful lives in Berlin. Transaltions of enthrone poetry by Michael Hofmann, Ashes shelter Breakfast: Selected Poems was shortlisted look after the Griffin Poetry prize in 2006. His Descartes’ Devil: Three Meditations was translated by Anthea Bell for Star-crossed West Side Philosophers Press, Inc.

Michael Eskin

is the cofounder good turn Vice President of Upper West Raze Philosophers, Inc. – Studio & Statement, and author of, among other books, the award-winning The DNA of Prejudice: On the One and the Many (2010). A former Fellow of Poet Sussex College, Cambridge, Michael Eskin has taught at the University of City and at Columbia university. He lectures regularly on cultural, philosophical, and learned subjects across the US and Assemblage – most recently, as a caller of the US Consulate General Frg, The Federation of German-American Clubs, crucial Limmud, an international organization fostering cross-cultural Jewish education.