13 – 16 May 2015
Spring Meeting in London
Don't mind the Gap German-British Encounters
18:30
14 May 2015
14:00
19:3015 May 2015
18:30
16 May 2015
16:00
19:30
13 May 2015, 18:30
British Academy
10-11 Carlton House Terrace
London
Presentation of the Academy Awards
Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis
für Übersetzung
to Anne Birkenhauer
Laudatory Address: Felix Schneider
für die Vermittlung
deutscher Kultur im Ausland
to Neil MacGregor
Laudatory Adress: Klaus-Dieter Lehmann
By Invitation only
14 May 2015, 14:00
Reform Club
104 Pall Mall
London
Exile
2 pm
Introduction
Charmian Brinson
Short presentations
- Jeremy Adler: »By the Rivers of Babylon...« Some Thoughts on Exile
- Michael Schaich: Past Futures. German Political Exiles during the Second World War
- Richard Dove: Language and Livelihood: German-speaking Literary Exiles in Britain 1933-45
Reading
Texts by Elisabeth Castonier, Hans Gál, Hilde Spiel, Lore Segal, Ingrid Jacoby and Judith Kerr, selected and introduced by Anthony Grenville
Short presentations
- Rüdiger Görner: Simulationen oder: Exile Revisited
- Andrea Hammel: Refugees and Exiles in British Memorial Culture after 1990
5 pm
Exile: the current status of research and debate
Discussion
Sylvia Asmus, Charmian Brinson, Sven Hanuschek, Bea Lewkowicz
Moderation: Raphael Gross
Registration is required: sekretariat@deutscheakademie.de
In partnership with
Exile Studies Centre,
School of Advanced Studies
University of London
14 May 2015, 19:30
Reform Club
104 Pall Mall
London
Escape and Migration
DiscussionNavid Kermani, Aris Fioretos, Maria Stepanowa
Registration is required: sekretariat@deutscheakademie.de
15 May 2015, 18:30
Institute of Contemporary Arts
ICA, The Mall
London
Found in Translation:
On the Writing and Translation of Poetry
Michael Hofmann
Jamie McKendrick
Moderation: Jan Wagner
Tickets: ICA
16 May 2015, 16:00
Goethe Institut
50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road
London
An exchange between German and British literary translators
With Daniel Göske, Joachim Kalka, Werner von Koppenfels, Klaus Reichert and Jamie Bulloch, Eleanor Collins, Karen Leeder, Shaun Whiteside, Chantal Wright
Registration is required: info@london.goethe.org
In partnership with Goethe-Institut London
16 May 2015, 19:30
Kings Place
90 York Way
London
Don't Mind the Gap – An Evening on British and German Literature
Readings with
Simon Armitage
Marcel Beyer
Alfred Brendel
Imtiaz Dharker
Durs Grünbein
A.L. Kennedy
Don Paterson
Terezia Mora
Moderation: Maggie Fergusson, Heinrich Detering
In partnership with Goethe-Institut London and Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary University of London
More than 60 members of the Academy including renowned German writers, poets, as well as historians und philosophers will converge in London from 13 to 16 May 2015 to share with their British colleagues.