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The German/American Exchange on Nazi-Era Art Provenance Research
2017 PREP Exchanges The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (February 5–10) Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (September 24–29) 2018 PREP Exchanges The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (February 25–March 2) Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich (October 8–12) 2019 PREP Exchanges Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Spring) Smithsonian Institution, Provenance Research Initiative, Washington, D.C. (Fall) Major support for the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program comes from The German Program for Transatlantic Encounters, financed by the European Recovery Program through Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and its Commissioner for Culture and the Media Additional funding comes from the PREP Partner Institutions, The German/American Exchange on the Smithsonian Women's Committee, James P. Hayes, Nazi-Era Art Provenance Research Suzanne and Norman Cohn, and the Ferdinand-Möller-Stiftung, Berlin 3RD PREP Exchange in Los Angeles February 25 — March 2, 2018 Front cover: Photos and auction catalogs from the 1910s in the Getty Research Institute’s provenance research holdings The Getty Research Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, CA 90049 © 2018Paul J.Getty Trust ORGANIZING PARTNERS Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz—Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation—National Museums in Berlin) PARTNERS The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Getty Research -
German Studies Association Newsletter ______
______________________________________________________________________________ German Studies Association Newsletter __________________________________________________________________ Volume XLIV Number 1 Spring 2019 German Studies Association Newsletter Volume XLIV Number 1 Spring 2019 __________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Letter from the President ............................................................................................................... 2 Letter from the Executive Director ................................................................................................. 5 Conference Details .......................................................................................................................... 8 Conference Highlights ..................................................................................................................... 9 Election Results Announced ......................................................................................................... 14 A List of Dissertations in German Studies, 2017-19 ..................................................................... 16 Letter from the President Dear members and friends of the GSA, To many of us, “the GSA” refers principally to a conference that convenes annually in late September or early October in one city or another, and which provides opportunities to share ongoing work, to network with old and new friends and colleagues. And it is all of that, for sure: a forum for -
The Free German League of Culture
VOLAJRUME JOURNAL 0 NO.9 SEPTEMBER 200 The Free German League of Culture oday, it is hard to imagine that 1939 at an informal meeting held at the the AJR was once overshadowed Hampstead home of the refugee lawyer T by other organisations claiming and painter Fred Uhlman. It was formally to represent the refugees from Germany constituted at a meeting on 1 March 1939, and Austria in Britain. Yet this was the when Uhlman was appointed chairman, case during the wartime years, when and four honorary presidents were the Free German League of Culture elected: the artist Oskar Kokoschka, the (FGLC, Freier Deutscher Kulturbund) drama critic Alfred Kerr, the writer Stefan was active as the body representing the Zweig and the film director Berthold refugees from Germany, and the Austrian Viertel. The presence of these eminent Centre those from Austria. These were names indicates the importance of culture politically inspired organisations, aiming to the League and to its political aims. It to represent all anti-Nazi refugees from had close relations with the small group Germany or Austria irrespective of of German Communists who had fled to religion or race, unlike the AJR, whose London. Its strategy mirrored Communist constituency was the Jewish refugees tactics during the Popular Front period of irrespective of nationality. the 1930s: to use a programme of cultural Both the FGLC and the Austrian Centre and artistic events to enlist the support of were founded in 1939, just before the FGLC honorary president Oskar Kokoschka a broad spectrum of left-liberal, culturally outbreak of war. -
Adapted to the Cinema by Harold Pinter for Jerry Schatzberg (1989): from (Auto)Biography to Politics
Interfaces Image Texte Language 37 | 2016 Appropriation and Reappropriation of Narratives Reunion, a Novella by Fred Uhlman (1971) adapted to the Cinema by Harold Pinter for Jerry Schatzberg (1989): from (auto)biography to politics Isabelle Roblin Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/298 DOI: 10.4000/interfaces.298 ISSN: 2647-6754 Publisher: Université de Bourgogne, Université de Paris, College of the Holy Cross Printed version Date of publication: 1 January 2016 Number of pages: 163-179 ISSN: 1164-6225 Electronic reference Isabelle Roblin, “Reunion, a Novella by Fred Uhlman (1971) adapted to the Cinema by Harold Pinter for Jerry Schatzberg (1989): from (auto)biography to politics”, Interfaces [Online], 37 | 2016, Online since 19 March 2018, connection on 06 January 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/298 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.298 Les contenus de la revue Interfaces sont mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. 163 REUNION, A NOVELLA BY FRED UHLMAN (1971) ADAPTED TO THE CINEMA BY HAROLD PINTER FOR JERRY SCHATZBERG (1989): FROM (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY TO POLITICS Isabelle Roblin Before starting on the analysis of the ways in which Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg transformed and re appropriated Fred Uhlman’s text to make it into a film, it is necessary to sum up what the text is about. The plot of Uhlman’s largely autobiographical novella is quite simple. It is about the short and intense, but ultimately impossible, friendship between two fifteen-year-old school boys during the rise of the Nazi party in Stuttgart in the early 1930s, and more exactly between February 1932 and January 1933. -
The Berlin Journal | Number 33 | Fall 2019
THE BERLIN JOURNAL A Magazine from the American Academy in Berlin Number Thirty-Three Fall 2019 How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt THe FuTure oF work in Germany by Laura D’Andrea Tyson FicTion by Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Angela Flournoy, and Paul La Farge THe empaTHic wiT oF HeinricH Heine by Azade Seyhan arTisT porTFolio Renée Green THe HisTory oF THe posTcarD by Liliane Weissberg We are deeply grateful to STEFAN VON HOLTZBRINCK for his generous support of this issue of the Berlin Journal. CONTENTS focus features notebook 4 34 80 6 How Democracies Die 36 WisH you were Here! 82 In praise oF DeliberaTive by Steven Levitsky and by Liliane Weissberg Democracy Daniel Ziblatt 42 ARTisT porTFolio 83 THe ricHarD c. Holbrooke 10 In THe reD Renée Green FellowsHip by Steven Klein 52 EmpaTHic wiT 84 THe 2018 max beckmann 14 ZukunFTsmusik by Azade Seyhan DisTinGuisHeD visiTor by Laura D’Andrea Tyson 55 Impossible proximiTy 84 Alumni seminar 22 THe orGans oF sense by Tatyana Gershkovich aT StanForD by Adam Ehrlich Sachs 58 WriTinG GeneraTions 86 Weiss anD cHipperFielD 28 LanD oF Darkness by Veronika Fuechtner 86 StreeT smarT by Suki Kim 62 THe miss april Houses 87 PoliTics anD Brötchen by Angela Flournoy 87 Welcome aboarD 66 All incluDeD by Paul La Farge 88 ProFiles in scHolarsHip 70 THe anDrew w. mellon worksHop 90 Book reviews Rosalind C. Morris, by Adam Ross and Kenny Fries Natacha Nsabimana, Miriam Ticktin, 96 Alumni books and Yvette Christiansë 97 SupporTers anD Donors CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Ziblatt is Eaton Professor professor in the School of Architec- at Carnegie Mellon University. -
Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles by Kerstin Zilm
Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles by Kerstin Zilm Kerstin Zilm: During the Nazi Regime, German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. Lion Feuchtwanger and Thomas Mann were two of the more prominent “exiles in paradise.” Their new surroundings reminded them of the Mediterranean while they were constantly thinking about the country, friends, and family they had to leave behind. Exile, transatlantic relationships, and debates about pressing global issues — those themes fill Feuchtwanger’s and Mann’s former homes again today. Take a trip to the Villa Aurora and the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades. Margit Kleinman: Feuchtwanger himself was then under the Vichy government interned in the South of France for about six months, in Les Milles, an internment camp. And she, Marta, was only interned for a couple of weeks in a women’s camp. Kerstin Zilm: Margit Kleinman, director of the Villa Aurora, tells the story about how Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger came to Los Angeles. She leads a spontaneous tour through the maze of rooms, staircases, and hallways, across creaky wooden floors, past black and white pictures, drawings, and busts. About 15 visitors follow her through the last home that the Feuchtwangers created for themselves. Lion died in California in 1958, his wife almost thirty years later, in 1987. Lion Feuchtwanger had been a critic of Adolf Hitler since the 1920s. The Nazis took away his German citizenship and publicly burned his books. The couple first fled to Southern France, which proved to not be safe. Margit Kleinman: .. -
Bangor University DOCTOR of PHILOSOPHY the History of the Jewish Diaspora in Wales Parry-Jones
Bangor University DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY The history of the Jewish diaspora in Wales Parry-Jones, Cai Award date: 2014 Awarding institution: Bangor University Link to publication General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 07. Oct. 2021 Contents Abstract ii Acknowledgments iii List of Abbreviations v Map of Jewish communities established in Wales between 1768 and 1996 vii Introduction 1 1. The Growth and Development of Welsh Jewry 36 2. Patterns of Religious and Communal Life in Wales’ Orthodox Jewish 75 Communities 3. Jewish Refugees, Evacuees and the Second World War 123 4. A Tolerant Nation?: An Exploration of Jewish and Non-Jewish Relations 165 in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Wales 5. Being Jewish in Wales: Exploring Jewish Encounters with Welshness 221 6. The Decline and Endurance of Wales’ Jewish Communities in the 265 Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries Conclusion 302 Appendix A: Photographs and Etchings of a Number of Wales’ Synagogues 318 Appendix B: Images from Newspapers and Periodicals 331 Appendix C: Figures for the Size of the Communities Drawn from the 332 Jewish Year Book, 1896-2013 Glossary 347 Bibliography 353 i Abstract This thesis examines the history of Jewish communities and individuals in Wales. -
Press Release
Press Release Berthold Leibinger Stiftung The first fellows of the Thomas Mann House Johann-Maus-Str. 2 have been announced: 71254 Ditzingen, Germany www.leibinger-stiftung.de Brigitte Diefenbacher Jutta Allmendinger (Berlin), Heinrich Detering (Göttingen), Phone: +49 7156 303-35201 Burghart Klaußner (Hamburg), Yiannos Manoli (Freiburg), and brigitte.diefenbacher@ leibinger-stiftung.de Sylke Tempel (Berlin) are the first German intellectual ambassadors to be sent to California. Berthold Leibinger Stiftung gives more than 3 million euros. Sept. 19, 2017 - Page 1 of 2 The Thomas Mann House, situated in 1550 San Remo Drive, Pacific Palisades, California, is still being renovated; the first fellows will likely move in early summer 2018. The fellows, outstanding personalities, who come from the fields of culture, politics, business, media, and science, will live in Mann’s former exile home from three up to ten months in order to engage in an intensive exchange with US-American institutions and personalities. These fellowships are supported by the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung for a period of at least five years with 1.5 million euros. Berthold Leibinger emphasized his strong commitment to the United States of America which, together with his affection for Thomas Mann as a writer with a critical political mind, constitutes the firm involvement of the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung to assist with the refurbishment of Thomas Mann’s exile home as well as to financially support the fellowships. The Berthold Leibinger Stiftung aims to foster the memory of Thomas Mann, his life, his time in exile, his intellectual environment and his family, as well as his literary and political work created in his Californian home. -
Director Receives Villa Aurora Fellowship
1/2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Berlin / Los Angeles December 3, 2019 „System Crasher“ Director receives Villa Aurora fellowship Nora Fingscheidt is awarded MFG-Star and will travel to Villa Aurora Last Friday, director Nora Fingscheidt was awarded the MFG Star, the MFG Film Fund’s prestigious Young Talent Award, for her feature „System Crasher “. The award includes a six-week residency at Villa Aurora in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. Jury member Hermine Huntgeburth explains her vote for Fingscheidt as follows: „I have seen a great movie – with a forceful artistic and humane signature. “ Nora Fingscheidt tells the story of Benni, a wild nine-year old girl belonging to a group called „system crashers“ by the German youth welfare office. Foster family, group home, special-needs school: Wherever Benni goes, she is immediately kicked out. At the same time, Benni only wants one thing: Love, security and to live with her mother again! But Bianca is afraid of her unpredictable daughter. As a last resort -when there seems to be no place for Benni and no solution for her situation- anti- violence trainer Micha tries to rescue her form a spiral of rage and aggression. Nora Fingscheidt was born in Braunschweig in 1983 and went to school in Germany and Argentina. From 2003 on, served as a Founding Board Member of filmArche in Berlin, now Europe’s largest self- organized film school. At the same time, she was trained as an acting coach. From 2008 to 2017, Fingscheidt studied directing at the Film Akademie Baden-Württemberg. Her undergraduate film „Syncope“ was nominated for the German Short Film Award. -
INFORMATION Fssufd SY the Assoaum of JEVUSH REFU^S U OEAT BRITMI
Volume XXXIV No. 5 May 1979 INFORMATION fSSUfD SY THE Assoaum OF JEVUSH REFU^S U OEAT BRITMI %on Larsen peared from the German scene: where and in what personal situation he worked was irrele vant. Even as a fanner he was still a writer. Another recent book on the subject is GERMAN LITERATURE-IN-EXILE Polififc und Literatur im Exil (Christian Ver The Last Chapter? lag, Hamburg) by Alfred Kantorowicz who emigrated to France, fought against Franco in ^ew topics in literary history have been dis- fred Durzak, Bloomington, who is also the Spain, fled to America and retumed, as a Com *^ussed, studied, written about all over the editor of the anthology) the success stories munist of long standing, to East Germany. But *orld as much as that of German Exilliteratur, are also rare, but some of them are quite the GDR tumed out to be the worst "exile" r'er since the buming of the books and the astounding: Vicki Baum, Lion Feuchtwanger, for him, and after a decade of frustration he "**ss exodus of writers from Nazi Gennany. Franz Werfel extended their former mainly left it to settle in the Federal RepubUc. He But the very diversity of attitudes to the German-language readership into a worldwide died in Hamburg two months ago. ^"Dject makes it difficult to define the term one from their American exile; Anna Segher's Kantorowicz starts his work—compiled for , "Winteratur. Does it mean anything produced Das siebte Kreuz achieved a sale of 600,000 the Forschungsstelle fur die Geschichte des J former Gennan writers outside their home- copies in the U.S. -
Guest Speaker Biographies
Guest Speaker Biographies 3rd PREP Exchange in Los Angeles February 25–March 2, 2018 The Getty Research Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, CA 90049 Sunday, February 25, 2018 Margit Kleinman Director Villa Aurora Margit Kleinman studied French and German linguistics and literature in Würzburg and Paris and holds an MA from the University of Tübingen, Germany. From 1987 to 2012, she was the program director at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. In May of 2012, she assumed the directorship at Villa Aurora. Friedel Schmoranzer Project Coordinator Villa Aurora Friedel Schmoranzer studied German Philology and Sociology at the University of Konstance (BA) and holds an MA in editorial studies from the Freie Universität Berlin. From March 2010 to November 2010 she was Chief Editor for the catalog Transatlantic Impulses—15 Years of Villa Aurora at the Villa Aurora Forum Berlin. In 2011 she became assistant to the director at Villa Aurora Los Angeles, and has been serving as project coordinator since 2012. Nikolai Blaumer Program Director Thomas Mann House Nikolai Blaumer, born in Düsseldorf in 1983, studied at Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität Munich and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from LMU with a dissertation entitled “Korrektive Gerechtigkeit: Über die Entschädigung historischen Unrechts” (2015) and taught at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität as well as Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Since 2014, Nikolai Blaumer has been working for the Goethe-Institut’s Department of Culture. He is coeditor of the book Teilen und Tauschen (2017). In February of 2018, he was posted to Los Angeles, where he assumed the position of program director at the Thomas Mann House. -
The Lonely People
Pressemitteilung SAVE THE DATE – *please scroll down for English version* ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE 25.9. – 10.10.2021; silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstr. 35, 13347 Berlin 20.11.2021 – 8.1.2022; LAXART, 7000 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90038 Saâdane Afif, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Louisa Clement, Lauren Halsey, Johnston Marklee, Annika Kahrs, Susan Philipsz, Anri Sala, April Street, Thomas Struth, Kaari Upson, Andrea Zittel Berlin, 18.5.2021 – Anlässlich des 25-jährigen Jubiläums der Villa Aurora zeigt VATMH (Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House) im silent green Kulturquartier ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE, kuratiert von Nana Bahlmann. Die Ausstellung präsentiert in der unterirdischen Betonhalle des ehemaligen Krematoriums im Berliner Wedding künstlerische Darstellungen physischer und mentaler Räume des Rückzugs im Kontext von Isolation und Kontemplation. Die Ausstellung wird großzügig gefördert vom Auswärtigen Amt, der Senatskanzlei Berlin, der Friede Springer Stiftung und einem privaten Mäzen. ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE zeigt bestehende sowie sieben eigens für die Ausstellung konzipierte Arbeiten von ehemaligen Villa Aurora-Stipendiat:innen und in Los Angeles lebenden Künstler:innen. Die Ausstellung versammelt künstlerische Darstellungen von Einsamkeit, Melancholie und Sehnsucht unter dem Gesichts- punkt universaler Topoi des Rückzugs und der Kontemplation. Das Eremitentum ist ein vertrautes Terrain der Kunst: Distanz ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der künstlerischen Positionierung zur Welt. Was bisher als meist selbstgewählte Lebensform von einigen Wenigen praktiziert wurde, hat im vergangenen Jahr aufgrund der andauernden weltweiten Lockdowns Eingang in den Erfahrungshorizont der breiten Bevölkerung gefunden und rückt einen kultur- und kunstgeschichtlichen Topos nun aus unerwarteter Perspektive in den Vordergrund. Künstler:innen machen diese Isolation sichtbar und erfahrbar. Mit verschiedenen Medien wie Fotografie, Video, Skulptur, Klang und Installation sollen die Erfahrungen der jüngsten Vergangenheit auf inspirierende Weise reflektiert werden.