Monday 27 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 and the German Stage
Ho Tim Seminar Room
Martin Kagel: Walking the Dead: George Tabori's Reframing of ‘The Jewish Wife’
Gad Kaynar-Kissinger: Entfremdung instead of Verfremdung: Appropriation and Refunctioning of the Epic Theatre Theory and Practice in the New German Stage
Julia Schöll: Brecht's Political Heritage. Milo Rau's ‘International Institute of Political Murder’
Chair: Günther Heeg
OR
Session B: Model Books
Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Freddie Rokem: The Invention of the Model
Ramona Mosse: Modelling Utopia
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll: The Castrated Schoolmaster
Chair: Marc Silberman
OR
Session C: Brecht and Communism
Louey Seminar Room
Joseph Dial: Recycling Lenin’s The Imperialist War: The Struggle against Social-Chauvinism and Social-Pacifism
Sabine Hake: The Gestus of Communism
Kasia Szymanska: All That Brecht: Polish Quadruple Translation Against the Legacy of Communism
Chair: Stephen Brockmann
OR
Session D: Recycling Poetry and Prose
China Centre Lecture Theatre
Michael Friedrichs: Brecht’s poems for children as seen by today’s kids
Helen Fehervary: Brecht and Nature: Recycling the Environment?
Markus Wessendorf: Hilary Mantel’s Brechtian (Re-)Vision of Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Chair: Sylvia Fischer
10.30-11.00am
Coffee and tea break
Wordsworth Tea Room
11.00am-1.00pm
Academic sessions in parallel
Session A: Brecht als Recycler/Recycled
Ho Tim Seminar Room
Zbigniew Feliszewski: Der Künstler im Zeitalter der ludischen Kombinatorik. Zu Schlöndorffs Baal-Verfilmung
Paul Peters: Celan als Rekonfigurierung Brechts
Florian Vaßen: ‘Die Authentizität des ersten Blicks auf ein Unbekanntes’ – Bertolt Brechts und Heiner Müllers Fatzer
Ernest Schonfield: Enzensberger contra Brecht: Herr Zetts kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Herrn Keuner
Chair: Erdmut Wizisla
OR
Session B: Brecht International 2
Louey Seminar Room
José de Ipanema: Brazilian Radical Theatre: Dialect of Images and Physical Actions
Beatriz Calló: The influence of epic theatre in Group Theatre of Sao Paulo
Chair: Steve Giles
OR
Session C: Recycling the Visual
China Centre Lecture Theatre
Heidi Hart: From critical to confessional: ‘Sexual dependency’ re-imagined
Kris Imbrigotta: ‘Betrayal and Homage’: War Primer 2 and the Problem of Appropriation
Karen Leeder: Brecht after Brecht: Broomberg and Chanarin and the Politics of the Changeable Text
Chair: Carolin Duttlinger
OR
Session D: Brecht and/in the GDR
Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Jan Berendse: Brecht and the Recycling of the Avant-Garde in the GDR
Friedemann Weidauer: Grosse Chance—Vertan: Urban Space in DEFA Films
Laura Bradley: Training the Audience: Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship
Chair: Sylvia Fischer
1.00-2.30pm
Lunch served
Dining Hall
‘Sprechstunde’: Brecht agents, publishers, editors and others will be available for consultation over lunch.
2.30-3.30pm
Keynote: Amal Allana
"Released into the Future: (Re)Claiming Brecht in India"
China Centre Lecture Theatre
3.30-4.00pm
Coffee and tea break
Wordsworth Tea Room
4.00-5.30pm
Roundtable discussion: “Political Theatre Today”
With Lyn Gardner, Simon Stephens, Di Trevis, Lisa Channer, and David Barnett
China Centre Lecture Theatre
5.30-7.30pm
Henrik Bromander and John Hanse: Violence & Learning
Violence & Learning is a performance that aims to make the convinced pacifist clench his fist and the stone-throwing activist stop to reconsider. Henrik Bromander and John Hanse are the creators of Violence & Learning, along with a group of artists who have come together to make this piece.
Mordan Hall
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 40 participants)
Please note: The audience will be standing and walking during the performance. The level of physical activity is similar to a museum visit or a city walking tour.
7.30-9.30pm
Gala dinner with cabaret from Sphinx Theatre
Maplethorpe Hall
Please note: drinks will be served at 7.30 and dinner at 8.00
8.00-11.30pm
Bar open
Wordsworth Tea Room