Alicante City University Venue At the University of Alicante, October 26-28, International Congress of the Goethe Society in Spain, this will be the motto in 2022 fantasy of german literature in honor of the bicentennial of the author’s death ETA Hoffmann.
The meeting will meet more than forty experts in the field what will they do 37 presentations, literary reading and cinema lectures between three days, in the morning and afternoon sessions. Among them stands out the keynote presentation given by Hans Richard Brittnacher between Free University of BerlinOne of the world’s leading experts in German literature.
Congress with cooperation, embassies of Germany and Austria, will meet Specialists in the fantasy genre of German literature was from there Germany and Austria, but also from countries like China, Italy, Slovenia and Georgiaand Spanish universities Granada, Barcelona, ​​Illes Balears, Córdoba, Valladolid, València, Alcalá de Henares, Oviedo, Murcia and Complutense de Madrid.
as described Maria Rosario Marti Marcothe organizer of the congress and the motto of the meeting, professor of the Department of Integrated Philology at UA, fantasy of german literature“Only terror, but also takes care Science fiction, fancy and stories and will consider it from very different perspectives and through analysis of the work of many authors».
Topics
The three-day presentations, which are open to all audiences, will be held in the shopping mall building tomorrow. Ramon and Cajal street and in the afternoon San Fernando street and these are divided according to the relevant topics of the congress, such as those dedicated to ETA Hoffmann in different fields such as Spain. fairy tales or as an enduring classic, female accentscinema and transmediality, Austria, fantasy nuances, transformations and the Far East, utopia, alchemy and magic, sinister and vampirism or new fantasy places, among others. It should be noted that, as stated in the program, All presentations are open to the public, some in German, others in Spanish.
In addition to the academic field, which is the main subject of the congress, some cultural activities such as literary readings also stand out. Christian Kossler on Ghosts and legends of the devil in the alpine region of Innsbruck brought to the present day or conference movie director and producer maxi hairytitled Dr. Caligari: Father of fantasy genre cinema. Interwar German fantasy cinema and its influence on world cinema.
Congress
The congress of the Goethe Society in Spain is organized on a mobile basis by different universities every year. In the 2022 edition, the entity chose the University of Alicante for its organization, which falls under the Department of Integrated Philology and has the cooperation of the German and Austrian embassies. Maribel Beltrán, director of the UA Research Structures Secretariat, will open the meeting; Paola Masseau, Deputy Dean of Academic Planning, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UA, Dorothea von Drahosch Sannemann, German Consul in Alicante, and Marisa Siguán, President of the Goethe Society in Spain.
Source: Informacion
