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interdisciplinary cultural approach to the First World War

2014 we will commemorate the beginning of World War I (1914-1918), which was denoted as the “primal catastrophe of the 20^th century” by the American historian George F. Kennan (1979). At first a lot of artists and intellectuals welcomed it and saw it as a liberation of the decrepit society. But the first industrialized war harrowed the bourgeois world and destroyed the hope of progress of the 19^th century. The war has affected significantly the global history which was steered in a new direction. The lecture focuses on its cultural history. Beyond an introduction into the central cultural historical aspects of World War I, guest speakers and a conference of the Brenner-Archiv on contemporary Serbian, Russian, English, German, but also American literature and rhetoric, will show the global dimension of the war.

2.4. Christine Engel: Der verdrängte Krieg: Der Erste Weltkrieg im Prisma der russischen Kultur

10.4. Andrea Zink Literarische Visionen von einem neuen Land: Die Geburt Jugoslawiens aus dem Niedergang der k.u.k. Monarchie

14.5. Manfred Kienpointner: Anarchistische Rhetorik gegen den Krieg. Zu Emma Goldmans Rede vom 14. Juni 1917 gegen die Zwangseinberufung in den U.S.A

21.5. Thomas Wegmann: Zwischen "Stahlgewitter" und "Bordell­gesin­nung": Ernst Jünger, Gottfried Benn und der Erste Weltkrieg.

4.6. Andrew Milne Skinner: Wilfred Owen's Poems within Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem": Isolation or Integration?

11.6. (bis 20 h !) Michael Pilz: "Prothesengötter. Versehrte Körper und technische Medien 1914-1933"

13.6. Erster Weltkrieg: Attraktion und Trauma. Eine Tagung zum 50jährigen Bestehen des Brenner-Archivs

Lecture, guest speakers and independent lectures & discussion

exam

The bibliography and the essays to read will be on Olat at the beginning of the semester.

This is an interdisciplinary lecture, listeners of all faculties are absolutely welcome!

beginning of the semester