Placing Schnitzler

Wednesday, 19 – Friday, 21 September 2018

Venue: Room G34, University of , Senate House,Malet Street, WC1E 7HU

Conference Programme

Wednesday, 19 September 13.45 Registration 14.15 Welcome and introductory remarks

14.30 Panel 1 Marie Kolkenbrock (/): ‘Postures of Detachment and Belonging: Placing Schnitzler in the Intellectual Field’ Konstanze Fliedl (Vienna): ‘Schnitzler’s Poetics of Discretion’ Deborah Holmes (): ‘Schnitzler and the Geniegedanke: Deferential Debunking‘

16.00 Tea

16.30 Panel 2 Judith Beniston (London): ‘”Wien um 1900”? Professor Bernhardi and its Historical Contexts’ Michael Scheffel (Wuppertal): ‘Placing Schnitzler in Historical Contexts: The Case of Fräulein Else’

17.45 Frederick Baker (Vienna/Cambridge): ‘Story Spheres: Placing Schnitzler in the Round’

18.45 Buffet Supper

Thursday, 20 September 9.30 Panel 3 Isabella Schwentner (Vienna): ‘Rearranging Flowers: Towards a Genetic Reconstruction of Schnitzler’s Novella Blumen (1894)’ Eva Höfflin-Grether (Freiburg): ‘Text Genesis and Intratextuality: Schnitzler’s Novella Der Witwer (1894) and its Dramatization, Die Gefährtin (1899)‘ Wolfgang Lukas (Wuppertal): ‘Changing Concepts of Love: Genesis and Narrativity in Schnitzler’s Komödie der Verführung‘

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Panel 4 Ingo Börner (Vienna): ‘s in Schnitzler’ Martin Anton Müller (Vienna): ‘Arthur Schnitzler’s Library and How to Reconstruct It’ Susanne Neubrand (Freiburg): ‘The Correspondence between Arthur Schnitzler and Scofield Thayer: Illustrating the Dissemination of Viennese Modernism in America’

13.00 Lunch

Thursday, 20 September (continued)

14.00 Panel 5 Nicole Robertson (London): ‘“Ich bin nicht Anatol”: Reinventing Schnitzler for Anglophone Reception’ Marina Rauchenbacher (Vienna): ‘Reigen – Time and Again: The Literary and Cinematic Reception of Schnitzler’s Play’ Vicky Angelaki (Reading): ‘Schnitzler’s Contemporary Resonance: Recent Productions of Professor Bernhardi in Vienna and ’

15.30 Tea

16.00 Panel 6 Eszter Polonyi (New York): ‘The Modern Author: Béla Balázs on Arthur Schnitzler’ Ursula von Keitz (Potsdam): Presentation of the website, FRÄULEIN ELSE MULTIMEDIAL

17.15 Reading by Julya Rabinowich from Herznovelle; in conversation with Andrea Capovilla

Friday, 21 September 9.30 Panel 7 Annja Neumann (Cambridge): ‘Placing the Audience between Humans and Marionettes in Zum großen Wurstel’ Francesca Roe (Bristol): ‘Gender and the Marionette in Schnitzler’s Puppet Plays’ Anna Lindner (Vienna): ‘Gender and Economy in Der grüne Kakadu‘

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Panel 8 Imke Meyer (Chicago): ‘Music and the Anti-Semitic Imagination in Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Schnitzler’s Lieutenant Gustl’ Andrew Webber (Cambridge): ‘Travelling Cases: Schnitzler between East and West’

12.30 Closing Discussion

13.00 Conference Ends

Conference Organisers: Judith Beniston (University College London) and Andrew Webber ()

Advance registration required Three days: £50 (standard rate) | £45 (Friends of Germanic Studies at the IMLR) | £30 (students) One day (19 or 20 September): £30 (standard) | £25 (Friends) | £15 (students) One day (21 September): £20 (standard) | £15 (Friends) | £10 (students) https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16569