March 29th 2012
13:30-14.00
Introduction
Paul Nolte & Tobias Becker (Freie Universität Berlin): Introductory Remarks
14.00-16.00
Early Transfers
Chair: Sven Oliver Müller (Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin)
Marion Linhardt (Universität Bayreuth): Rethinking Histories of Operetta. European Genre Transfers in the 19th and Early 20th Century
Stefan Frey (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): How a sweet Viennese girl became a naughty cosmopolitan lady. From operetta to musical comedy: A paradigmatic cross-cultural exchange in the beginning 20th century.
Viv Gardner (University of Manchester): The Sandow Girl and Her Sisters. The construction and performance of the healthy female body in fin de siècle musical comedy
16.30-17.00
Coffee Break
17.00-19.00
Transculturality – Intermediality
Chair: David Linton (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Vagelis Siropoulos (Goldsmiths, University of London): Theorizing the Advent of the Revue and Its Influence on Early Twentieth Century British and German Musical Theatre
Carolin Stahrenberg (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) & NILS GROSCH (Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg): The Transculturality of Stage, Song and Other Media. Reflections on Intermediality in Popular Musical Theatre
Robert Gordon (Goldsmiths, University of London): Noël Coward and the Image of 'the Modern'
19.00-20.30
Dinner
20.30-21.30
Project Presentation
Len PLATT, David Linton (Goldsmiths) & TObias Becker (Freie Universität Berlin): West End and Friedrichstraße. A Comparative Study of Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin, 1890-1939
March, 30th 2012
9.30-11.00
Atlantic Traffic
Chair: Klaus Nathaus (Universität Bielefeld)
Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds): German Operetta in the West End and on Broadway
Peter Bailey (University of Manitoba/Indiana University): 'Hullo Ragtime!' The Rise of Revue and the Americanisation of the British Popular Stage
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30-13.00
Travelling Artists
Chair: Kerstin Lange (Freie Universität Berlin)
Linda Braun (Johns Hopkins University Baltimore): Between 'Negro Operetta' and Yodeling in Lederhosen. Music Performances of Black Americans in English and German Theaters (1880-1914)
Susann Lewerenz (Universität Hamburg): The Non-Stop Revue ‘Tropical Express’ in Nazi Germany
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.30
Operetta at War
Chair: Hansjakob Ziemer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin)
Eva Krivanec (Universität Wien): Soldier Boys and Gipsy Princesses. Popular Musical Theatre in European Metropoles during Wartime, 1914-1918
Matthias Kauffmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Operetta and Propaganda. The Politicisation of Popular Musical Theatre in the ‘Third Reich’
15.30-16.30
Plenary
Venue
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Tagungsstätte Harnack-Haus
Ihnestraße 16-20
14195 Berlin