German-speaking Emigrés in British Cinema, 1925-1950. An International Conference

German-speaking Emigrés in British Cinema, 1925-1950. An International Conference

Organizer
University of Southampton
Venue
University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ
Location
Southampton
Country
United Kingdom
From - Until
15.07.2005 - 17.07.2005
Deadline
13.06.2005
By
Christian Cargnelli

This event, the first major conference on this topic, aims to determine the influence of German-speaking émigrés on British cinema from the late silent film era to the immediate post-World War Two period, focussing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, professional training and education, cross-cultural exchange and representation. More than 300 filmmaking personnel found refuge in the United Kingdom from the mid-1920s to the late 1940s, and papers will address the careers and contributions by producers such as Alexander Korda and Max Schach, directors Berthold Viertel and Paul L. Stein, actors and actresses Anton Walbrook, Lilli Palmer and Conrad Veidt, screenwriters Carl Mayer and Emeric Pressburger, cinematographers Gunther Krampf and Curt Courant, designers Alfred Junge, Ernö Metzner and Hein Heckroth, and composers Hans May, Ernst Meyer, Matyas Seiber and Allan Gray.

Programm

Friday, 15 July

from 14.30: Registration

15.30 Welcome with Guest of Honour: Wolf Suschitzky

15.45 Unresolved Questions of Film Exile in Britain after 1928 (Kevin Gough­-Yates) - Respondent: Christian Cargnelli

16.45 Discussion

17.00 Tea

17.15 British Theatre and Cinema Europe - The Case of Arnold Ridley and Geza von Bolvary (Lawrence Napper)

17.45 “A foundling asylum” - Werner Brandes and BIP (Kelly Robinson)

18.15 Discussion

18.30 Dinner

20.30 Harbour Lights Cinema: Wolf Suschitzky, Director of Photography – An Introduction to GET CARTER

21.00 Harbour Lights Cinema (Film Screening): GET CARTER (UK 1971)

Saturday, 16 July

9.30 Extending Frames and Exploring Spaces: Alfred Junge, Set Design and Genre in British Cinema of the 1930s (Sarah Street)

10.00 THE GHOUL (1933) and the ‘English Gothic' (James Chapman)

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Kamera: Krampf – From Weimar Cinema to Gaumont-
British and Beyond (Michael Omasta)

11.30 Passages: Curt Courant's Work in British Exile (Robert Müller)

12.00 Discussion

12.15 Lunch

13.30 Panel: Researching the History of German and Austrian Cinema – CineGraph and SYNEMA (Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta, Hans Michael Bock)

14.00 Discussion

14.15 ‘German , or still more horrible thought Russian - at any rate, it is un- English!': A Wide Shot of Exile, Emigré and Itinerant Activity in the British Film Industry in the1930s (Amy Sargeant)

14.45 Hein Heckroth at The Archers (Andrew Moor)

15.15 Lost in Siberia: Erno Metzner in Britain (Laurie N. Ede)

15.45 Discussion

16.00 DVD Screening

16.15 Tea

16.30 Allegories of Displacement: Conradt Veidt's British Films (Gerd Gemünden)

17.00 Lilli Palmer in Britain – A German Actress Became an International Star (Barbara Ziereis)

17.30 Anton Walbrook: Transformations of an Actor (Michael Williams)

18.00 Discussion

18.30 Dinner

20.30 Film Screening (Lecture Theatre A)

Sunday, 17 July

9.30 Down and out in London – Carl Mayer (1894-1944) (Brigitte Mayr)

10.00 DVD Screening

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Emigrés Against Hitler: British Anti-Nazi Films and German-speaking Film Personnel (Tobias Hochscherf)

11.30 The Representation of German Jewish Emigrés in British Newsreels, 1933- 1942 (Richard Clarke & Jeff Hulbert)

12.00 Discussion

12.15 Lunch

13.30 My Song Goes Round the World: Escapism and Social Comment in the Music of Hans May and Ernst Meyer (Geoff Brown)

14.00 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING: Hearing Germanic Music in the Scottish Isles ( Kevin Donnelly )

14.30 Musical Avant-garde Meets Film: THE MAGIC CANVAS and Matyas Seiber's Impact Upon British Film Music (Florian Scheding)

15.00 Discussion

15.30 Closing Panel: Film Exile and Identity – The Influence of Continental Filmmakers on British Cinema (Charles Barr, Pam Cook, Kevin Gough-Yates, Sarah Street / Chair: Tim Bergfelder)

16.30 Tea

Contact (announcement)

Christian Cargnelli
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Southampton SO17 1BJ

c.cargnelli@soton.ac.uk
T: ++44 (0)23 8059 2605

http://www.film.soton.ac.uk/research/emigres.html
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Published on
23.06.2005
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