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SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Cerise Dragecevich, Leilani Matanguihan, RGRLL Chair, Professor Markus Muller, and the Faculty and Students of the CSULB German Studies Program. Thursday 17 October 2013 11:30-12:00: Jeffrey High (CSULB): 5:30-6:30: A Performance of Georg Büchner’s Büchner’s Woyzeck” Welcome and Introductions “‘The Republic is [still] in Peril’: Büchner, Woyzeck, Directed by Matthew Straus Moderator: Sierra Patheal (CSULB) 6:00: Welcome: Tara Rensch (CSULB) Schiller’s Republican Tragedies, and True (THEA 24/26) Address: Daniel Chaffey (Goethe-Institut LA) Criminals of Lost Honor” 1:00-2:30: Lunch on the Anatol Center Patio 6:30: Dinner on the Anatol Center Patio An Introduction to Georg C. Klaren’s Wozzeck, Moderator: Rebecca Stewart (CSULB) sponsored by the Office of the Dean of sponsored by the Southern California Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez (Longwood University) Graduate Studies Friends of Goethe Screening of Georg C. Klaren’s Wozzeck (1947) 12:00-12:30: John Lyon (University of Pittsburgh): 8:00: Shuttle to the Conference Hotel SESSION 7: Plots and Medicine sponsored by the DEFA Film Library 20@20 “Georg Büchner and George Sand – Host: Leah Turner (CSULB) Film Tour, the University of Massachusetts Influence, Resonance, or Convention?” Moderator: Mitchell Holthaus (CSULB) Saturday 19 October 2013 and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (MMC100) 8:30: Shuttle from the Conference Hotel 2:30-3:00: Wolf Kittler (UC Santa Barbara): 12:30-12:40: Louis Fantasia (New York Film 9:00: Coffee and Brötchen sponsored by the “Büchner’s Woyzeck Fragment: Mirroring Friday 18 October 2013 Academy Burbank, Friends of Goethe) German Club and Associated Students the State of Medicine in the First Half of the 8:00: Shuttle from the Conference Hotel 12:40-2:00: Lunch on the Anatol Center Patio Nineteenth Century.” 8:30: Coffee and Brötchen sponsored by the sponsored by the Southern California SESSION 5: Artists and Fairy Tales Moderator: Prisilla Sanchez (CSULB) German Club and Associated Students Friends of Goethe Host: Frederike von Schwerin (Pomona College) 3:00-3:30: Harald Friedl (CSULB): Welcome and Introductions SESSION 3: Büchner and Theater “The Woyzeck Plot: Werner, Why Did You Do It?” (CSULB) 9:00: Welcome: Adeline Bauder Host: Professor Nele Hempel-Lamer (CSULB) 10:00-10:30: Adam Merki (CSULB): Discussion Moderator: Asal Alimirzai (CSULB) Mark Wiley, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts of Hector Belioz’ Symphonie Fantastique (1830), Markus Muller, Chair of the Department of 2:00-2:30: Christine Richter-Nilsson Act 3, Scene 4 and the Final Orchestral Interlude Closing Remarks Romance, German, Russian Languages & (Vanderbilt University): from Alban Berg’s Wozzeck with a Vocal Literatures (RGRLL) “Destroying the Illusion: The Trope of Performance by Rebecca Stewart (CSULB) 3:30-5:00: Adeline Bauder (CSULB) Stefan Biedermann, Deputy Consul General of Theater in Georg Büchner’s Plays” Group Photo & Coffee/Snack Break Germany in Los Angeles Moderator: Alicia Alderson (CSULB) 10:30-11:00: Adeline Bauder (CSULB): Fareed C. Majari, Director of the Goethe-Institut “The German Forest in the works of Büchner, or: 5:00-6:30: Screening of Werner Herzog’s Los Angeles 2:30-3:00: Margaret Govoni A Fairy Tale Forest” Woyzeck (1979) sponsored by Goethe-Institut (University of New Mexico): Moderator: Christine Chen (CSULB) Los Angeles (MMC100) 9:30-10:00: Büchner Reading Session “Taking it to the Street: Theatre and Revolution Host: Prisilla Sanchez (CSULB) in Büchner’s Danton’s Death” 11:00-11:30: William Peightal (CSULB): 6:30: Dinner on the Anatol Center Patio Moderator: Kirsten Stava (CSULB) “Büchner’s Lenz and 200 Years of Socializing 8:00: Shuttle to the Conference Hotel SESSION 1: Büchner and Hesse-Darmstadt the Artist” Host: Adeline Bauder (CSULB) 3:00-3:30: Coffee Break Moderator: Cathy Gamble (University of New Mexico)

10:00-10:30: Tara Rensch (CSULB): SESSION 4: Büchner: Melancholy and 11:30-12:00: Coffee Break “Georg Büchner’s Hesse-Darmstadt - Psychological Developments Conference Hotel Information: Hesse-Darmstadt’s Georg Büchner” Host: Rebecca Hermann (CSULB) SESSION 6: Büchner the Artist: Hyatt The Pike Long Beach Moderator: Leah Turner (CSULB) Theater and Music 285 Bay Street 3:30-4:00: Bryce Thomson (CSULB): Host: Margaret Govoni (University of New Mexico) Long Beach, CA 90802 10:30-11:00: Sophia Clark (Vanderbilt University): “Erikson’s Eight Stages of Psychosocial (562) 432-1234 “Something that humans cannot endure: The Development and Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck” 12:00-12:30: Adam Merki (CSULB): Timely Sufferings of Büchner’s Lenz” Moderator: Susan Benson (CSULB) “Woyzeck and Wozzeck: Commentaries on Conference Phone Numbers: Moderator: Ryan Adams (CSULB) Alban Berg’s Adaptation of the Dramatic Work General: (562) 472-6028 4:00-4:30: Bernd Fischer (Ohio State University): by Büchner” General: (909) 363-5668 11:00-11:30: Coffee Break “Melancholic Recognition: Büchner’s Literary Moderator: Rebecca Hermann (CSULB) Experimentations with Medical, Philosophical, Transportation: (562) 212-7141 Catering: (562) 552-0048 SESSION 2: Büchner’s Readings: and Political Diagnostics” 12:30-1:00: Matthew Straus (CSULB): Moderator: Alexandrea Stiller (CSULB) CSULB: (562) 985-4111 Friedrich Schiller and George Sand “A Short Organum for the Stage as Moral Host: Cathy Gamble 4:30-5:30: Coffee/Snack Break Institution: Reconciling Brechtian and (University of New Mexico) Schillerian Theater Theory in Georg