The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Comparative and Trans- Eastern Europe (GWZO) carries out comparative his­ torical and cultural research on the region bordering national Perspectives on the Baltic, the Black, and the Adriatic Seas from the Early Middle Ages to the present. There are currently Women’s Cinema in the around 50 research scholars associated with the Institute conducting work both in Germany and abroad GDR and Poland 1945– from across the range of humanities disciplines. In its activities, the Institute relies on a dense network of co­ 1989 operative partnerships with Eastern and Central Euro­ pean as well as international research organizations. In contemporary research, women’s contribution to the development of Central and Eastern European www.leibniz­gwzo.de cinemas remains a largely unexplored subject. Our workshop aims to encourage reflection on the posi­ Venue tion of women in Polish and East German socialist film GWZO, Specks Hof (Entrance A), 4th floor industries and film cultures from the end of World Reichsstraße 4–6, 04109 Leipzig International War II in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The goal of the workshop is not only to highlight examples Concept Workshop of film­ and media­related work by women, but also Maciej Peplinski to develop new comparative and transnational modes (GWZO, Department “Culture and Imagination”) Comparative and of evaluating Central and Eastern European women’s maciej.peplinski@leibniz­gwzo.de Transnational Perspectives filmmaking in its various sociopolitical, ideological and on Women’s Cinema in the aesthetic dimensions. Małgorzata Radkiewicz GDR and Poland 1945-1989 (Jagiellonian University, Institute of Audiovisual Arts) The workshop is supported by the funds of the [email protected] Deutsch­Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung. Organization Leipzig, Front image: Film still from »Die Taube auf dem Dach«, Iris Gusner, Ines Rößler (GWZO, Department “Knowledge Transfer November 14th–16th, 2019 1973/1990 © DEFA­Stiftung/Klaus Goldmann and Networking“) Back image: Film still from »Begegnung im Zwielicht«, Wanda Jaku­ ines.roessler@leibniz­gwzo.de bowska, 1960 © DEFA­Stiftung/Eduard Neufeld In collaboration with Deutsch­Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung Jagiellonian University th 12.00–13.30 th November 14 , 2019 History, Ideology and Professional Biographies 2 November 16 , 2019 Chair: Małgorzata Radkiewicz (Cracow) 17.00 Registration 9.00–10.30 18.00 Welcome Rafał Morusiewicz (Vienna): Polish Female Filmmakers Documentary and Experimental Filmmaking in the 1980s: A Study of the Cinematic Counterpublics Chair: Christine Gölz (Leipzig) 18.15 Keynote Lecture Grażyna Świętochowska (Gdańsk): Female Filmmakers Justyna Jaworska (Warsaw): Krystyna Gryczełowska – as Professionals in Socialist Film Industries – A Compa­ The Voice and the Silence Cornelia Klauß (Berlin): New Horizons and Disruptions. rative Study of Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s East German Female Directors of the DEFA Studios and and 1970s Antje F. Hoffmann (Berlin): Women in the GDR Docu­ the Underground mentaries – Seeing between the Pictures through the Ewa Ciszewska (Łódź): Gendering Polish Presence at Method of the Video Essay 19.15 Dinner Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Years 1946­1970 Katarzyna Lawinia Gorska (Bochum): Materialities of 13.30–14.30 Lunch Divergence. Women’s Experimental Film and Video th Practice in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s November 15 , 2019 14.30–16.00 Sociopolitical Realities 10.30–10.45 Coffee Break 9.30–11.30 Chair: Borjana Gaković (Berlin) History, Ideology and Professional Biographies 1 10.45–12.15 Chair: Maciej Peplinski (Leipzig) Magdalena Walo (Cracow): (Hi)Story For the Youngest. Plenary Session Film Adaptations of Children Literature by Polish Fe­ Chair: Ewa Fiuk (Cracow) Natascha Drubek (Berlin): Olga Mińska – A Career in male Directors Aleksander Ford’s Shadow Conclusions, Invitation to the Workshop in Cracow, Roman Zhigun (Moscow): Agnieszka Holland: The Fate Networking Elżbieta Durys (Warsaw): Ewa Petelska – Genres, Gen­ of »A Lonely Woman« against the Background of Social der, and Politics and Political Cataclysm in Poland 12.15–13.00 Lunch Borjana Gaković (Berlin): Wanda Jakubowska’s East Mary­Elizabeth O’Brien (Saratoga Springs): Construc­ German­Polish Coproduction »Encounters in the Dark« ting Masculinites in Iris Gusner’s »Die Taube auf dem (1960) – A Case Study Dach« (1973/1990/2010) Paulina Kwiatkowska (Warsaw): Zofia Dwornik – 16.00–16.30 Coffee Break The »Hand« of a Female Film Editor 16.30–17.30 11.30–12.00 Coffee Break Keynote Lecture Monika Talarczyk (Łódź): Women’s Impact on the History of the Central and Eastern European Cinema – A Case Study of Polish Film Industry 17.45 Dinner .