Follow Writing Brecht

Sunday 26 June

7.30-9.00am

Breakfast served for those staying at St Hugh’s

Dining Hall

 

9.00-10.30am

Academic sessions in parallel

Session A: Brecht, Music and Rhythm

China Centre Lecture Theatre

Martin Brady: ‘Altes wird aufgerollt’: Paul Dessau’s posthumous collaborations with Brecht

Carolin Sibilak: ‘From now on music had the characteristics of art’ – composing Brecht after Brecht

Michael Morley: Dancing Feet, Metric Feet: Fred Astaire, Brecht and  a thirties socio-cultural quickstep

Chair: Sylvia Fischer

OR

Session B: Brecht, Science, Technology

Louey Seminar Room

Ian Saville: Brecht and Decision Science

Alexandra Oliveira: Brecht and Photography

Christina Papagiannouli: The Director as Researcher: Bertolt Brecht

Chair: Kris Imbrigotta

OR

Session C: Teaching Brecht

Maplethorpe Seminar Room

Grace Bridgewater: Rediscovering the familiar – Teaching Brecht in HE education

Ann Shanahan: Repeating ‘Pirate Jenny’: Re-cycled Performance as Radical Teaching Demonstration

Bill Gelber: Engaging with Brecht: Producing Mother Courage in Higher Education as a Test of His Methodology

Chair: David Barnett

OR

Session D: The Brechtian Legacy: Contemporary Performance

Ho Tim Seminar Room

Minou Arjomand: Eichmann in Jerusalem as Epic Theatre

Anthony Hostetter: Recycling the Verfremdungseffekt : The Staging of Charlotte Delbo’s Who Will Carry the Word?

Nadine Friedman-Roberts: Epic Theatre and Eight-Inch Heels: The Unlikely Alignment of Drag Superstar RuPaul and Brecht

Chair: Meg Mumford

 

10.30-11.00am

Coffee and tea break

Wordsworth Tea Room

 

11.00am-1.00pm

Academic sessions in parallel

Session A: Brecht-Mix

Ho Tim Seminar Room

Akira Ichikawa: Mann ist Mann und Kabuki

Lin Cheng: Wer ist der "Zweifler“? - Über den Zusammenhang von Bildfigur und Gedicht

Joachim Lucchesi: Mit Eisler im Arbeitszimmer und Dessau in der Küche: Brechts "Wünschelrutenprinzip“ in der Musik

Hans Peter Neureuter: Brecht als Übersetzer

Chair: Friedemann Weidauer

OR

Session B: Castorf±Brecht

China Centre Lecture Theatre

Steve Earnest: Castorf Destroys Brecht: Considerations Regarding Der Jasager, Die Massnahme and Baal

Hanife Schulte: Brecht in Contemporary German Theatre: Frank Castorf’s Productions of Brecht’s Plays from the Perspective of Postdramatic Theatre

Katie Hawthorne: "Das hat Brecht nicht verdient": Frank Castorf’s Baal as an Act of Vandalism

Günther Heeg: Brecht’s "Material Value": Frank Castorf Recycles Baal

Chair: Laura Ginters

OR

Session C: Brecht International 1

Louey Seminar Room

Lin Chen: The interpretation and misinterpretation of the Verfremdungseffekt on the modern Xiqu stage – take the Yueju opera Good Person of Jiangnan as an example

Christine Jing-Chia Chou: Revision and Critique on the Tradition: Unfamiliar Side of Brecht to the Chinese World

Gudrun Tabbert-Jones: ‘Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose’: Brecht and the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Chair: Antony Tatlow 

 

1.00-2.30pm

Lunch served

Maplethorpe Hall

(sign-up necessary)

 

2.30-3.30pm

Keynote: Hans-Thies Lehmann

Brecht Translating / Translating Brecht’

China Centre Lecture Theatre

 

3.30-4.00pm

Coffee and tea break

Wordsworth Tea Room

 

4.00-5.30pm

Academic sessions in parallel

Session A: Brecht and Collaboration

Maplethorpe Seminar Room

Paula Hanssen: Brecht‘s Women Colleagues and Translation: Muses, Translators and Scribes

Katherine Hollander: ‘Producing Something with the Other’s Talents’: Brecht, Community, and Zusammenarbeit in Exile

Vera Stegmann: Brecht, Weill, and Hannah Arendt: Pamela Katz’s Book The Partnership in View of her Work for Film

Chair: Tom Kuhn

OR

Session B: Brecht and Ireland

Ho Tim Seminar Room

Siobhán O’Gorman: Manifestations without the Manifesto? Bertolt Brecht and Edwards-MacLiammóir’s Dublin Gate Theatre

David Barnett: The Berliner Ensemble Stages The Playboy of the Western World

Chair: Laura Bradley

OR

Session C: Mahagonny and its Legacy

Louey Seminar Room

Rikard Schönström: Quotes as commodities – The use of slogans in Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny

Marc Silberman: Recycling Mahagonny: Harry Smith’s Avant-garde Film Remake

Steve Giles: ‘Degenerate’ Opera? The Contemporary Reception of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Chair: Stephen Parker

OR

Session D: Brecht and Shakespeare 1

China Centre Lecture Theatre

Peter Billingham: When Eddie & Bert met Bill: 'Bingo. The Game's Up!' Brechtian dramatic strategies in Edward Bond's radical revisiting of Shakespeare

Stephen Unwin: Brecht’s Shakespeare/Shakespeare’s Brecht

Astrid Oesmann: Inherent Estrangement: Brecht’s Reading of Shakespeare's Tragedies

Chair: Ralf Räuker

 

6.00-7.00pm

German-language roundtable discussion

With Erdmut Wizisla, Kathrin Röggla, Günther Heeg and Jürgen Kuttner 

China Centre Lecture Theatre

 

7.30-9.00pm

Dinner served

Maplethorpe Hall

 

9.00-10.15pm

Song recital by Robyn Archer and Michael Morley

Singer Robyn Archer and pianist Michael Morley perform a selection of theatre and cabaret songs by Brecht, Wedekind and others.

Mordan Hall

(Sign-up necessary, maximum 140 participants)

 

8.00-11.30pm

Bar open

Wordsworth Tea Room