Postwar Austrian Drama

A conference to be held at the Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Languages, 12-14 September 1995.

• Conference programme
• Further information
• Booking details
• Acknowledgements

Conference Programme

Dates and times to be announced:

• Professor Moray McGowan (Sheffield): "Peasant plays? Tradition and innovation in the rural dramas of Peter Turrini and Felix Mitterer."
• Victoria Martin (Oxford): "Vox populi, vox Autriae. Dialect in Felix Mitterer's dramas."
• Dr Allyson Fiddler (Nottingham): "Marlene Streeruwitz and her 'Mischun' for the theatre."
• Jenny Lanyon (Oxford Brookes): "The 'de(con)struction' of femininity in Elfriede Jelinek's Krankheit oder moderne Frauen."
• Dr Mike Rogers (Southampton): "`The Structure of Squalor' in the plays of Canetti, Schwab and Bauer."
• Dr Julian Preece (Huddersfield): "Performance Theatre or drawing-room farce? The plays of Werner Schwab."
• Professor Edward Timms (Sussex): "Qualtinger and the Viennese satirical tradition."
• Dr Ralf Jeutter (Manchester Metropolitan): "The playwright Thomas Bernhard."
• Silke Hassler (Vienna): "Jakov Linds Dramen."
• Dr Fritz Wefelmeyer (Sunderland): "Das Theater der 'verlichteten Erzählung' bei Peter Handke und Wim Wenders."
• Uwe Schüte (East Anglia): "Exerzitien in einer 'überholten Kunst' - Gerhard Roths Theaterstücke."
• Julie Wilson (Huddersfield): "The Performance texts of Hermann Nitsch."
• Professor Jörg Thunecke (Nottingham Trent): "Die Kontroverse um Kunst und Politik in Gerald Szyszkowitz' Servus Du oder Mister Stolz goes to Israel."

In addition there will be a talk by Penny Black on translating Peter Turrini and various theatrical events, including Brigitte Schwaiger's Yes, My Fuehrer and the British première of Hermann Nitsch's First Abreaction Play. There will also be a reading by Jakov Lind.

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Further information

The conference languages will be English and German. It is hoped that the contributions to this conference will be published in an edited volume of essays on postwar Austrian drama.

Further information is available from the conference organisers, Frank Finlay & Ralf Jeutter, Department of Languages, Mabel Tylecote Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15 6BG. tel 0161 247 6186/6189, fax 0161 247 6323, email F.Finlay@mmu.ac.uk

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Booking details

For a booking form, contact Christine Davies in the Conference Office or download one from here, fill it in and email to C.A.Davies@mmu.ac.uk.

Acknowledgements

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