Matthias Buschmeier, Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Bielefeld University
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
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
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
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
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
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
10:00 Departure