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For more information, please contact [email protected]. authors: Visiting Lecturers Presentations will address the following topics: + concepts of agency States, gave, in May of 1988, an Institute Lecture at + cinema as agent in history Johns Hopkins University entitled: "The GDR's Policies + individual/national identity information for Securing Peace and Promoting Disarmament in and historical subjects Europe." + the influence of modernity and post- modernity on the portrayal of history Heinz-Uwe Haus in Portland + history as metaphor for the present In cooperation with the Chicago International Film From January to April of this year, GDR stage Festival, the Film Center of the School of the Art director Heinz-Uwe Haus was the soul of a major Institute of Chicago and the Goethe Institute of Chica• Galileo project in Portland, Oregon. In 1986 Haus had go, film screenings will be held before and during the been a guest speaker at several universities and col• leges here. During that brief stay two years ago, he conference. The conference is scheduled to coincide impressed the local theater people with his know-how with the first week of the 24th Chicago International and flair. Subsequently, The New Rose Theatre Com• Film Festival. pany, supported by a grant from the Metropolitan Arts The conference will be held on the campus of the Commission, invited Dr. Haus to direct their first pro• University of Illinois at Chicago. Located just west of duction in the Dolores Winningstad Theatre of the new downtown, the campus is easily accessible by public Centre of the Performing Arts. and private transportation. Advance registration is required! The registration The city-wide Galileo project opened with an ex• fee is $10, $5 for students with a copy of current hibition of Brecht posters which Haus had brought student ID. from the GDR in celebration of the 90th anniversary of Brecht's birthday. A series of symposia at the Oregon To register or for further information contact: Museum of Science and Industry focused on the his• The University of Illinois at Chicago torical Galileo, the social responsibility of the scientist and on Brecht's Life of Galileo. For several months, Conferences and Institutes (M/C 607) the planetarium of the museum has been showing the 912 South Wood Street sky the way Galileo observed it. Moreover, Haus con• Chicago, Illinois 60612 ducted a series of workshops for actors in which Brecht's ideas of interpretation and acting were ex• Conference Registrar: (312) 996-5225. plored. The conference is sponsored by the Department of The highlight of the Galileo project was the pro• German, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Univers• duction of The Life of Galileo with Shabaka of the San ity of Illinois at Chicago. Francisco Mime Troupe in the title role. This Galileo was not a Renaissance Faust-type but rather a modern scientist-engineer caught in a bind between indulging himself in what he likes to do best and the social VISITING LECTURERS consequences of his discoveries and actions. The play was thus open-ended and invited the members of the Hermann Axen Gives Lecture at Johns Hopkins Univer• audience to draw their own conclusions. sity Despite the local theater critic, who vented his bias against Brecht, all eighteen performances of the play Hermann Axen, the highest ranking East German poli• were sold out. Haus had extended the Elizabethan tical figure (Politbüro member and Secretary of the stage both forward into the auditorium and upward to Socialist Unity Party of Germany) to visit the United the second gallery. The additional acting space, the clever use of the steps leading from the upper to the Published by New Prairie Press, 1988 16 1 lower level, the entrances from all sides and GDRthe Bulletin,plac• Vol. 14 [1988], Iss. 2, Art. 5 ing of the narrators among the audience all added to Cinema," to be held at the University of Illinois Octo• the flair which characterized the production. Much ber 27-30, and will be available to address other aud• thought went into working out the "gestus" of each iences before and after these dates. sub-scene and into meaningful groupings, which were Among Mr. Kohlhaase's accomplishments are his made more memorable by Susan Bonde's lavish collaboration with Gerhard Klein during the SO's and costumes. Hanns Eisler's original music was modified 60's in writing such films as Alarm in the Circus and by Barbara Berstein to fit her actor-musicians' instru• A Berlin Romance and his scriptwriting for Konrad ments and skills. Wolf on the films I Was Nineteen. Mama. I'm Alive and Director Haus had based this production on Howard Solo Sunny. He is the author of a novel, New Years Brenton's 1980 translation, cut and structured accord• Eve with Balzac and a number of successful radio plays ing to the original Danish version of Brecht's play. including The Grunstein Bariant which took the Prix The Carnival Scene ' was extended over the Prologue Italia in 1978. Mr. Kohlhaase has worked as a jour• and Epilogue in an attempt to draw the audience into a nalist in the GDR and has an excellent command of community in motion, and thus to mobilize action for English. He is a member of the GDR's Academy of change. For, as Galileo says it in the "Little Monk" Arts. scene: "Only as much of the truth will prevail, as we make prevail." If you would like to invite Mr. Kohlhaase to visit your institution, please contact Christopher J. Wickham During the first audience discussion it was evident or Bruce Murray at the German Department of the that this overriding concern had struck a responsive University of Illinois at Chicago (Box 4343, Chicago, chord. The audience in the second discussion focused 111. 60680) or by phone at (312) 996-3205. on feminist concerns, which are hard to satisfy with this Brecht play. The dialectic relationship between Galileo, his mothering daughter Virginia, and the rep• resentative of the church authorities at the end of this Silvia and Dieter Schlenstedt production was left studiously open to interpretation by the audience. Professor Dieter Schlenstedt from the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin (GDR) will be teaching at the All in all this thoughtful and ambitious staging of Germanic Languages and Literatures Department of the Life of Galileo was positively successful with the Port• University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the spring land audience. A chance visitor from the GDR, Eber• of 1989. He will be accompanied by his wife, Professor hard Görner from the DDR-Fernsehen. was most en• Sylvia Schlenstedt. thusiastic about this tangible sign of productive co• operation between GDR and USA artists and the com• munity at large. Helga Schubert Laureen Nussbaum Portland State University Helga Schubert will be the visiting writer at Color• ado College in Colorado Springs from April 1 to June 1, 1989. Wolfgang Kohlhaase Wolfgang Kohlhaase, the GDR scriptwriter and three time winner of the National Prize, will be in the Mid• Joachim Walther west during the fall of 1988. He will be participating in the conference, "Concepts of History in German The Department of Modern Languages at the Uni• versity of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls will be hosting https://newprairiepress.org/gdr/vol14/iss2/5 18 Joachim Walther as its visiting writer from January to DOI: 10.4148/gdrb.v14i2.856 2 19 May. Mr. Walther, who will be accompanied byauthors: his Visiting Lecturers wife, will also be teaching at Grinnell College. Ebersbach, Volker. Caroline. Historischer Roman. Hal• Joachim Walthe was born 1943 in Chemnitz and studied le/Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1988. 440 S., 18.50 Germanistic and Art History at the Humboldt-Universi• DM tät in Berlin. In 1968 he became the Editor for Con• temporary Prose at the publishing house "Der Morgen". Endler, Adolf. Akte Endler. Gedichte aus 30 Jahren. He was also editor of "Die Weltbühne" and the journal Leipzig: Reclam, 1988. 192 S., 5.00 DM "Temperamente". He has written and published exten• sively, inluding radio plays and theatre scripts. Walther Fuhrmann, Rainer. Die Untersuchung. Utopischer has been a member of the "Schriftstellerverband der Roman. Berlin: Das Neue Berlin, 1988. 272 S., 6.50 DM DDR" since 1972. Gerlach, Hubert. Niemandes Bruder. Roman. Berlin: RECENT LITERATURE Union Verlag, 1988. 160 S., 11.00 DM Görlich, Günter. Drei Wohnungen. Roman. Berlin: Verlag Alma fliegt. 31 neue Märchen von der Liebe. Hrsg.: Neues Leben, 1988. 248 S., 7.70 DM Annegret Herzberg. Berlin: Buchverlag der Morgen, 1988. 304 S., 12.00 DM Grasnick, Ulrich. Das entfesselte Auge. Hommage ä Picasso. Gedichte. Berlin: Verlag der Nation, 1988. 80 Apitz, Bruno. Esther. Novelle. Halle/Leipzig: Mittel• S., 15.80 DM deutscher Verlag, 1988. 34 S., 23.10 DM Grüning, Uwe, Dr.. Innehaltend an einem Morgen. Ge• Bergander, Uwe. Balance. Erzählung. Berlin: Aufbau dichte. Berlin: Union Verlag, 1988. 136 S., 7.00 DM Verlag, 1988. 160 S., 6.30 DM Hacks, Peter. Die Gedichte. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1988. Berger, Karl Heinz. Onkel Nikodemus. Männergeschich• 330 S., 18.50 DM ten. Berlin: Union Verlag, 1988.