20 Years on: Remembering the GDR and German Unification 20 Jahre danach: Erinnerung an DDR und deutsche Einigung 14-16 September 2009, University of Bath 14 September 2009 13.30- Registration (3 East foyer) NB There will be the facility to collect 14.00 registration packs through conference for late arrivals. 14.00 Welcome: Dr Susan Milner (University of Bath) (3 East 2.1) 14.30- Plenary: Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon), ‘Remembering GDR Culture in 15.15 Post-Unification Germany’ (3 East 2.1) Chair: Dennis Tate 15.15- Panel A: The literary aesthetics of Panel B: Memorials 16.45 remembering 1 (3 East 2.1) Chair: Axel (3 East 2.2) Chair: Arnd Goodbody Bauerkämper Hélène Yeche: Jakob Hein: Literatur Andrew Beattie: Remembering the zwischen autobiographischen Zeugnissen GDR amidst politicisation, und Kommerzialisierung der DDR- moralisation and historicisation Erinnerung since 1989 Andrea Geier: Vermittelte Unmittelbarkeit. Courtney Glore Crimmins: Red and Ästhetische Verfahren der Verlebendigung Re-Read: Reinterpreting the Soviet und Historisierung von Geschichte in der War Memorial in Berlin’s Literatur seit der Jahrtausendwende Treptower Park after 1990 Catherine Smale: ‘Die Gegenwart war es Anna Saunders: The politics of nicht’: Irina Liebmann and the post-Wende memory in Berlin’s ‘Freiheits- und Uncanny Einheitsdenkmal’ 16.45- TEA/COFFEE (3 East Foyer) 17.30 17.30- Plenary: Mary Fulbrook (University College London), ‘Stories, Histories 18.15 and Memories: Verklärung oder Erklärung?’ (3 East 2.1) Chair: Renate Rechtien 18.15- Plenary: Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold, ‘After the Wall: 19.00 Reconstructing and Representing the GDR’ (presentation of current AHRC-funded project) (3 East 2.1) 19.30- DINNER (Claverton Rooms) 20.30 20.30 Showing of the film Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem (2006); followed by a discussion with Utz Rachowski, chaired by Laurel Cohen-Pfister ((3 East 2.1) Remembering the GDR and German Unification, Final Programme, p. 1/4 September 15 9.00- Panel C: Literary intellectuals and the Panel D: Memories of the Left (3 East 10.30 legacy of socialism (3 East 2.1) Chair: 2.2) Chair: Andrew Beattie Stephen Brockmann Charity Scribner: Postcommunist, Daniel Argelès: Das Bild der DDR im Postmilitant: The GDR, The Red essayistischen und erzählerischen Werk Army Faction, and Other Problems in von Klaus Schlesinger vor und nach 1989 German Cultural Memory Benjamin Robinson: One Iota of Joanne Sayner: ‘Wir werden ihr Difference: What is Socialist Literature Andenken stets in Ehren halten’: about? Antifascism, Greta Kuckhoff and Memories of Resistance Karen Leeder: Dances of Death: A last Literature from the GDR Christiane Lahusen: Den Kommunismus erzählen: Autobiographische Erinnerung als Teilhabe an der „Meistererzählung“ 10.30- Panel E: The aesthetics of literary Panel F: Generations (3 East 2.2) 12.00 remembering 2 (3 East 2.1) Chair: Karen Chair: Dennis Tate Leeder Wolfgang Emmerich: Arne De Winde: „Der Schrei des Autobiographisches Schreiben in drei Marsyas“: Inszenierungen der Marsyas- Generationen einer DDR-Familie: Figur in der Prosa der DDR Christa Wolf – Annette Simon – Jana Simon Gillian Pye: Trash, memory and the obsolete: remembering and material Astrid Köhler: Elternbücher (A culture in recent German novels Krauss, I Liebmann, J Erpenbeck, F Havemann) Axel Goodbody: Wulf Kirsten’s poetic remembering René Lehmann: Generation und Transformation. Generationen- differenzierte auf die DDR- Vergangenheit und die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus bezogene Deutungsmuster in ostdeutschen Familien 12.00- LUNCH (3 East Foyer) 13.00 13.00- Plenary: David Bathrick (Cornell), ‘Memories and Fantasies about and of 14.30 the Stasi’; Helmut Peitsch (Potsdam), ‘Wie Erinnerung erinnert wird: Das Potsdamer Archiv der Erinnerung 1995/96’ (3 East 2.1) Chair: Ute Wölfel 14.30- Panel G: Remembering the Stasi (3 East Panel H: Private lives (3 East 2.2) 16.00 2.1) Chair: Anna Saunders Chair: Debbie Pinfold Carol Anne Costabile-Heming: The Stasi Anne-Marie Pailhès: on Display in Berlin: The Role of the Ostdeutsche Kleingärten als Museum in the GDR’s Contested Legacy Fortsetzung einer DDR-Tradition Sara Jones: At Home with the Stasi: Josie McLellan: ‘Liebte der Osten Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen as anders?’ Sex and the body in German Historic House reunification Daniela Berghahn: Remembering the Claire Hyland: They just don’t Stasi : From DEFA Gegenwartsfilm to understand! Generational influences the Stasi fairy tale Das Leben der upon contemporary east German Anderen identity 16.00- TEA/COFFEE (3 East Foyer) Remembering the GDR and German Unification, Final Programme, p. 2/4 16.30 16.30- Panel I: Media and memory (3 East 2.1) Panel J: British and Irish Perspectives 18.00 Chair: Daniela Berghahn (3 East 2.2) Chair: David Clarke Hilde Hoffmann: Wende- Sabine Egger: The Berlin Wall and its Dokumentationen der Jahre 1989-91 als fall from an Irish Point of View - Paul dokumentarische Durcan’s Poetry Gedächtnisräume Rosemary Stott: Never mind the Wall: John Ramsden: A British diplomat’s cross-border romance in post-unification view of the unification process film Ramona Katrin Buchholz and Juliane Rytz: Ein „authentisches Stück Zeitgeschichte“? – Der Anspruch auf Wirklichkeit und Wahrheit in populären Erinnerungsformen 18.30 CONFERENCE DINNER (Wessex House Restaurant) Followed by: Reading by Utz Rachowski (Chair: David Clarke). NB A bar will be open in the Wessex House Restaurant until 23.00 September 16 9.00- Panel K: Eastern European perspectives Panel L: Performing arts (3 East 2.2) 10.00 (3 East 2.1) Chair: Karoline von Oppen Chair: David Bathrick Brigid Haines: Not Nostalgia, but Nation: Joy Calico: Regieoper or Eurotrash? Remembering Eastern Europe in Recent The Legacy of GDR Theatre Texts in German Directors on the Opera Stage Nadežda Zemaníková: Wandlungen der Moray McGowan: Remembering the osteuropäischen Erinnerungskultur. GDR in Theatre Ostdeutsche und slowakische Texte im Vergleich Stephan Krause: Eine Reise, eine Grenze – drei Geschichten. Derselbe Weg von Budapest nach Wien in drei verschiedenen Erzählungen von Kertész, Esterházy und Schulze 10.00- TEA/COFFEE (3 East foyer) 10.30 10.30- Panel M: Remembering GDR military (3 Panel N: Commemorating events (3 12.00 East 2.1) Chair: Helmut Peitsch East 2.2) Chair: Arnd Bauerkämper Andrew Bickford: Red Radiation: Richard Millington: The memory of Soldiers, Citizens and the State in Post- 17 June 1953 and its influence on the Unification Germany ordinary citizens of the GDR in 1989 Andrew Plowman: Literary Vera Simon: “On October 3rd, we Representations of Military Service in the Germans have learnt that we can also NVA and the Bundeswehr succeed in history” . The celebrations on German Reunification Day since 1990 Gerd Lüdeker: Erinnerung als TV- Event: DDR und Wiedervereinigung in neuesten deutschen Fernsehfilmen 12.00- SUMMING UP AND END OF CONFERENCE (3 East 2.1) 13.00 Arnd Bauerkämper, David Clarke, Renate Rechtien, Ute Wölfel and Dennis Tate; Remembering the GDR and German Unification, Final Programme, p. 3/4 with David Bathrick, Stephen Brockmann, Mary Fulbrook and Helmut Peitsch Remembering the GDR and German Unification, Final Programme, p. 4/4 .