Symposia, Lectures & Conferences – event archive
Thursday 19 June, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Hans Gál Lecture – Hans Gál Vienna to Edinburgh
Michael Haas will give an audio-illustrated talk on the life of the renowned Austrian composer Hans Gál. Following considerable success in the 1920s, was appointed Director of the Conservatory in Mainz in 1929 but was instantly dismissed (and his works banned) when Hitler took power in 1933. He returned to Vienna, the city of his birth, but was again forced to flee by Hitler’s annexation of Austria in 1938. He emigrated to Britain and settled in Edinburgh, where he remained active until his death in 1987.
Michael Haas is an accomplished executive and recording producer, having worked for both Universal Music Group’s Decca/London and the Sony Classical labels and with many of the world’s most renowned musicians and singers. He is also highly regarded for his contribution to the rediscovery of music lost during the Nazi years in Europe. The recording series “Entartete Musik” is seen as a groundbreaking recovery of works thought lost, forgotten or destroyed.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 22 – Friday 23 May
Chawton House Library, Alton
Readers, Writers, Salonnieres: Female networks in Europe, 1700-1900
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion of interest in Europe in foreign languages and literatures. This conference seeks to examine the trans-national links between literary women in Europe in the period 1700-1900.
For more information please contact Sandy White, Conference Administrator: sw17@soton.ac.uk
or visit www.soton.ac.uk/english/news/femalenetworks.shtml
Venue and Information
Chawton House Library, Alton
Hampshire, GU34 1SJ, T 01420541010
Thursday 22 May, 8pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
An Evening with Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Alexander Stillmark and his New Translation of ‘Der Schwierige’
On the occasion of the international conference on Hugo von Hofmannsthal (22-23 May), organised by the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, the Austrian Cultural Forum will host a reading by Alexander Stillmark from his new translation of „Der Schwierige“, accompanied by film clips and a musical interlude.
Please click here for a detailled programme of the conference.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Friday 16 May 2008, 9:30-13:15
University of Manchester
GEOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE IN THE WORKS OF JEWISH WRITERS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIA AND GERMANY
A Postgraduate Workshop by Prof. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago
The two-part workshop explores the sense of geography and language in selected works of Jewish writers and filmmakers born after the Shoah. These authors come from different places of origin, but they write in German for German-speaking audiences. Their relationship to Germany and / or Austria is clearly one of choice, as is obvious from their fictional characters and personal statements. Israel, the United States, and Poland, Russia, and other East European countries are important sites through which these authors position themselves.
All postgraduates welcome
For further information, registration and copies of preparatory readings, please contact Rachel.M.Corbishley@manchester.ac.uk by 4 April 2008
Postgraduate Office in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Venue and Information
University of Manchester
Humanities Lime Grove, A213
Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 April, 2008
Cadogan Hall, London
Music in Exile
The Artists of the Royal Consevatory, Canada, presents MUSIC IN EXILE, a weekend of concerts and lectures exploring the music of composers forced to flee the Third Reich.
Each of the four MUSIC IN EXILE concerts has a specific theme: Through Roses, a semi-staged work for actor and eight instrumentalists, performed in the closing concert, articulates the displacement and disassociation of exile, while the remaining three concerts explore the output of composers whose lives were irrevocably changed by the events of those years.
Four lectures by experts in the areas of exiled composers and ‘Entartete Musik’ (degenerate music) complement the concerts: Dr. Gottfried Wagner (Founder, The Post-Holocaust Dialogue Group and great-grandson of Richard Wagner); Bret Werb (Musicologist, US Holocaust Memorial Museum); Michael Haas (Jewish Museum of Vienna) and Albrecht Dümling (Founder, Musica Reanimata, Berlin and winner of the 2007 KAIROS prize, Hamburg).
For more information please visit: www.cadoganhall.com/showpage.php?pid=570
Venue and Information
Cadogan Hall, London
5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ
T 020 7730 4500
Tuesday 8 April 2008, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Design… out of the void? The history of the Werkstätte
Carl Auböck in Vienna
Lecture by Carl Auböck
Around 1900 Karl Heinrich Auböck (I) founded a metal workshop in Vienna’s 7th district, specializing in bronze-casting. His son Carl Auböck (II, 1900 -1957) was one of the very few students from Vienna attending the Bauhaus in Weimar in the 1920s. Upon his return, he reorganised the Werkstätte (workshop) in the spirit of his Bauhaus experience. His son Carl Auböck (III, 1924 -1993) and grandson Carl Auböck (IV, born1954) carried on with the Werkstätte’s development. In 1955 Carl Auböck (III) created the interior design for the Austrian Institute at 28 Rutland Gate in London and in the following years for the Austrian Institutes in New York, Paris, Rome and Warsaw.
Led today by Carl Auböck IV, the Werkstätte remains as the last one in its own tradition and continues to produce its classic models of lamps, bookends, and many more objects on the same premises in Bernardgasse 21.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Wednesday 2 April - Friday 4 April 2008
St Hilda's College Oxford
From the Ausgleich to the Jahrhundertwende: 1867-1890
pre-modernism and change
This international conference, coordinated by Deborah Holmes (Vienna), Wolfgang Maderthaner (Vienna) and John Warren (Oxford), will examine the historical period which presaged and prepared for the artistic, cultural and political flowering which was to mark Austria and above all its capital Vienna at the Jahrhundertwende. In almost every field of activity – literature, music, art, architecture, journalism and politics – signs of emerging ‘modernity’ can be discerned in the years 1867-1890, although they have never attracted as much attention as the fin de siècle which followed.
The conference will include presentations on the historical and cultural background, the literature, art and music of this remarkable period by Robert Evans (Oxford), Wolfgang Maderthaner (Wien), László Péter (London), Jonathan Kwan (Nottingham), Eda Sagarra (Dublin), Robin Okey (Warwick), Andrea Grisold (Wien), Deborah Holmes (Wien), Emil Brix (Wien), Steven Beller (Cambridge), W.E. Yates (Exeter), Karlheinz Rossbacher (Salzburg), Marion Linhardt (Bayreuth), Helen Chambers (St. Andrews), Patricia Howe (London), Martin Liebscher (London), Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), Ulrike Tanzer (Salzburg), Charlotte Woodford (Cambridge), Lorenzo Belletini (Cambridge), Wolfgang Kreutzer (Wien), Gilbert Carr (Dublin), Sabine Wieber (Roehampton), Dafna Clifford (Oxford), Ilona Parsons (Budapest), Monika Faber (Wien), Christa Veigl (Wien), Gemma Blackshaw (Plymouth), Diana Reynolds (San Diego), Christian Glanz (Wien), Roger Moseley (Chicago), Jennifer Murphy (Chicago), Richard Stokes (London), Carl Auböck (Wien). Sessions will be chaired by Peter Pulzer (Oxford), Mark CornwaIl (Southampton), Ian Roe (Reading), Ian Foster (Salford), Robert Vilain (Royal Holloway), Judith Beniston (London), Florian Krobb (Maynooth), Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway), Andrew Barker (Edinburgh), Rodney Livingstone (Southampton) and Robert Pyrah (Oxford).
Info: To register an interest, or to request more information, please contact Deborah Holmes (deborah.holmes@onb.ac.at) or John Warren (jdawarren@hotmail.co.uk ). Conference fees will be announced shortly.
Venue and Information
St Hilda's College Oxford
5 Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ
T 020 7730 4500
Wednesday 20, 27 February & Wednesday 12 March 2008, 4pm
Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth
Memory Cultures Seminar Series: Constructing Memory
Wednesday 20 February, University of Portsmouth, 4pm
Law, Politics and Memory. How Austria dealt with her past after 1945
Lecture with Professor Karl Vocelka, University of Vienna.
Wednesday 27 February, University of Portsmouth, 4pm
Culture, Politics, Palimpsest. Theses on Memory and Society
Lecture with Dr Heidemarie Uhl, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Wednesday 12 March, University of Portsmouth, 4pm
Changing of the Memorial Landscape and the Identity Politics in Transitional Europe
Lecture with Professor Oto Luthar, Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Jointly organised by the Czernovitz Project Group and the Memory Culture Research Cluster
Venue and Information
Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth
School of Languages and Area Studies
Park Building, R. 2.19
King Hentry 1 Street, P01 2DZ
T 02392 846064
Tuesday 11 December 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Rüdiger Görner: W. H. Auden’s poetic voyage
On the occasion of Wystan Hugh Auden 100th birthday, Rüdiger Görner will speak on the writer and poet, whose critical and ironic language contrasted the ideological thinking and vocabulary of his time.
Professor Rüdiger Görner chairs the German Department at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 23 October 2007, 10am – 5.30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Austrian Day-School’ for Sixth-Formers
A special day for Sixth Form students, with a multi-disciplinary programme on Austria – including presentations on history, music, art history, psychology and literature- each one to be led by an expert in the field. At least one session (on an appropriate aspect of 20th century Austria) will be held in German for members of the German Sixth Forms.