IFS - Schedule

1. Tag,
Day 1

Wednesday, September 5
Doheny Memorial Library, USC

9:00 a.m.

REGISTRATION

9:45 a.m.

WELCOME
Marje Schuetze-Coburn, USC Libraries

10:00 a.m.

INTRODUCTION
Ian Wallace, University of Bath

PANEL 01

Transpositions: Problems and Possibilities
Chaired by Ian Wallace, University of Bath

10:30 a.m.

Christian Schärf, University of Mainz
Differenz der Bilder. Probleme von Inter- und Transmedialität in frühen Literaturverfilmungen am Beispiel Feuchtwangers und Döblins

11:15 a.m.

Barbara von der Lühe, Zhejiang University of Hangzhou and Technical University of BerlinÜber die Schwierigkeit, Feuchtwangers Jud Süß-Roman zu verfilmen. Vergleichende Analyse der Drehbücher von Arthur Richard Rawlinson und Dorothy Farnum (1934), Egon Eis (1977) und Leo Lehmann (1985)

12:00 p.m.

LUNCH

1:30 p.m.

Christoph Schmitt-Maaß, University of Basel Typage und Montage. Feuchtwangers Eisenstein-Rezeption und ihre Auswirkung auf die Erzählstrate-gien in den späten historischen Romanen

2:15 p.m.

Jonathan Skolnik, University of Massachusetts Class War, Antifascism, and Anti-Semitism: Grigori Roshal’s 1939 Film Semya Oppenheim in Context

3:00 p.m.

BREAK

3:15 p.m.

Helen Fehervary, Ohio State University Land-, Sea-, and Skyscapes of a Revolt: Erwin Piscator’s and Thomas Langhoff’s Film Versions of Anna Seghers’s Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara

4:00 p.m.

SCREENING
Goya (1971), directed by Konrad Wolf Presented in German without English subtitles

2. Tag,
Day 2

Wednesday, September 6
Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades

1:30 p.m.

SHUTTLE FROM PACIFIC PALISADES TO VILLA AURORA
Conference attendees will take a shuttle from Los Liones Drive off Sunset Boulevard, two blocks east of Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. Parking and handicap access are unavailable at Villa Aurora.

2:00 p.m.

WELCOME
Zaia Alexander, Villa Aurora

PANEL 02

Feuchtwanger and Wolf: Goya Chaired by Frank Stern, Vienna University

2:15 p.m.

Frank Stern, Vienna University Visualizing Aufklärung and Radical Humanism for the 21st Century: Feuchtwanger and Wolf’s Goya

3:00 p.m.

Seán Allan, University of Warwick Wolf’s Goya in the Context of GDR Cultural Policy

3:45 p.m.

BREAK

4:00 p.m.

Jeffrey B. Berlin, Holy Family University A Relentless Drive for Meaning—Tracing Lion Feuchtwanger’s Intentions in Writing Goya: The Journeyfrom Unpublished Letters to Novel to Screen

4:45 p.m.

Friedrich Knilli, Technical University of Berlin Feuchtwanger Relaunched

5:30 p.m.

DINNER

6:30 p.m.

Tanja Kinkel, novelist, Bamberg Conversation between FriendsA reading presented by Villa Aurora

3. Tag,
Day 3

Wednesday, September 7
Doheny Memorial Library, USC

PANEL 03

Exiled German Writers in Hollywood Chaired by Manfred Flügge, writer, Berlin

9:00 a.m.

Andrea Chartier-Bunzel, University of Montpellier Simone, ein Hollywoodprodukt?

9:45 a.m.

Magali Nieradka, University of Nice „Die Menschen sind voll von Begierden. Darum sehnen sie sich nach Wundern.” – Der Erfolg von Franz Werfels Roman Das Lied von Bernadette (1941) und dessen Hollywood-Verfilmung (1942)

10:30 a.m.

BREAK

10:45 a.m.

Birgit Maier-Katkin, Florida State University Evoking “The Good German”: Fred Zinnemann and Anna Seghers Negotiate the German and American Home Front in The Seventh Cross

PANEL 04

Feuchtwanger and the GDR Chaired by Barton Byg, DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

11:30 a.m.

Deborah Vietor-Engländer, Technical University of Darmstadt Arnold Zweig, Lion Feuchtwanger, and the Film of Das Beil von Wandsbek

12:15 p.m.

LUNCH

1:15 p.m.

Thomas Beutelschmidt and Henning Wrage, Humboldt University
Lion Feuchtwanger und das DDR-Fernsehen

2:00 p.m.

SCREENING
Die Brüder Lautensack, part 3 (1973), directed by Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
Presented in German without English subtitles

3:45 p.m.

BREAK

4:00 p.m.

Jörg Thunecke, West German Academy for Communication
„Die Kunst des Menschenfischens” Lion Feuchtwangers Die Brüder Lautensack: Roman und Fernsehfilm (1944/1973) – ein Vergleich

4:45 p.m.

CLOSING REMARKS
Ian Wallace, University of Bath