Dr. Matthias Buschmeier (Universität Bielefeld), Prof Dr Jeanne E. Glesener (Universität Luxembourg)
Gefördert durch: MIS – Migration and Inclusive Societies, UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG)
The conference aims to shed light on the literary and cultural representation of occupation as a European experience. Literary scholars from all over Europe will come together to discuss the outlines and implications of a comparative perspective on the topic. Since this is almost-uncharted territory, the conference is intended as a first step for mapping the literary representation and articulation of the experience of occupation. Differentiating between two periods of occupation – 1938-1945 (period of the heterogeneous German occupational regimes established throughout Europe) and 1945 to 1955 (period of the allied presence in Germany and Europe after the war, the death of Stalin in 1953, which changed the occupational regime of the Soviet Union in the Baltic States and the official end of the time of occupation in Western Germany through the “General Treaty” in 1952/1955) – the aim is to investigate how literary texts figure the complex and often intertwined relationship between complicity, collaboration, and resistance. It also seeks to see to what extent historical differences in the reality of occupation in various European countries are mirrored in literary texts. Finally, it endeavors to point out the role played by literary representations in the reconstitution of the (formerly) occupied countries, and the accompanying and highly debated memory politics.
Program
04/04/2022
16:30 Opening of Conference:
Matthias Buschmeier (Bielefeld): Military Occupation and its Literature between Historical Representation and Memory Politics
17:30 Evening lecture: Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal): Occupied Societies: Encounters with the enemy, experiences of insecurity and the “new normal” of extraordinary times
19:00 Welcome Aperitif
19:30 Dinner
05/04/2022
I. Literary Perspectives of German Occupiers in Western Europe
09:00 – 10:00 Jan Andres (Bielefeld): Vertreibung aus dem Exil. Rudolf Borchardts Anabasis‘-Fragment
10:00 – 11:00 Christopher Meid (Freiburg): Occupation as tourism? Griechenland. Ein Buch aus dem Kriege (1942) and Ölberge, Weinberge (1953) by Erhart Kästner
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:30 Stefanie Siess (Heidelberg): German Writers as Occupiers and Occupied. Franco-German Representations in the Works of Felix Hartlaub (1940-1945) and Tami Oelfken (1945-1955)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
II. Literary Perspectives of the Occupied from South-Eastern Europe
14:00 – 15:00 Aleksandar Momčilović (Prag): Literature from Below: Literary Competitions on the Territory of the German Military Commander in Serbia and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
15:00 – 16:00 Atinati Mamatsashvili (Tbilisi/Luxembourg): Literary Representations of Occupied Cities: Tbilisi, Paris, Luxembourg
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17.30 Joanna Rzepa (Essex): Translating Occupied
Poland: Politics, Propaganda, and Polish-English Translation in Britain (1939-1946)
17:30 – 18:30 Jelena Subotić (Atlanta): Contested Remembrance of Occupations in Post-communist Europe
19:30 Dinner
06/04/2022
III. Occupation in Literature after the War
09:30 – 10:30 Daniela Lieb (Luxembourg): Semantiken der Besatzung(en) in Pierre Grégoires Trilogie Europäische Suite (1951-1952).
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Benedikts Kalnačs (Riga): Reflections on Twentieth-century Military Occupations in Latvian and Estonian novels
12.00 – 13:00 Stefan Laffin (Venedig): Liberation or Occupation? Allied Occupation in Italy between Literature and Propaganda between 1943 – 1947
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:00 Sandra Schell (Heidelberg): Margret Boveri’s Amerikafibel für erwachsene Deutsche (1946) – an Example for Literature of Military Occupation?
16:00 – 17:00 Klaus-Michael Bogdal (Bielefeld): "Es war vorbei. Düsseldorf war tot." Narrative einer erneuten Besatzung
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break
IV. The Endurance of Occupation in Contemporary Literature
17:30 – 19:00 Round table with Jeroen Olyslaeggers (Belgium)
Host: Jeanne E. Glesener (Luxembourg)
19:30 Dinner
07/04/2022
10:00 Departure
Kontakt:
Dr. Francesca Zilio (Villa Vigoni)
phone+39 379 20 00 41
zilio@villavigoni.eu
Eine Teilnahme online ist nach Registrierung möglich:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FFCQkoegSjKAzow7wYRKjw
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