On 21 to 24 June, staff and students from the University of Bonn will come to Oxford for an intense three-day colloquium on medieval German literature and culture. This annual meeting open to all undergraduates that have taken medieval papers, provides an excellent opportunity to train presentation skills, test proficiency in German conversation and medieval merrymaking. The Bonn and Oxford students will be working with the Reformation holdings of the Taylorian and try their hand at printing the 95 Theses. As venues, we will make use of seminar rooms at Somerville College and the medieval surroundings of St Edmund Hall both as a conference venue in the congenial atmosphere of the Old Library and also to participate in the world premiere of scenes from the 'Juttenspiel', a 15th century German Pope Joan play translated for this occasion into English by Oxford students. Everybody welcome to the performance in the Chapel on 23 June, 6pm, and to the drinks afterwards in the Antechapel!
Programme: geschrieben, gemalt, gedruckt. Medieval and Early Modern Text Poetics and Production
Wednesday, 22 June
Session 1 (Chair:: Almut Suerbaum)
9.45-10.30 Anna Kleine (Bonn): Manipulierte Gottesurteile in Gottfrieds Tristan und im Engelhard Konrads von Würzburg
10.00-10.45 Jack Stuart (St Hilda’s) Die Darstellung religiöser Differenz in Wolframs Willehalm
Session 2 (Chair: Peter Glasner)
11.00-11.45 Thomas Marshall (Queen’s): Swaz der plânêten reise umlouft und ir schîn bedecket: The Worlds of Arthurian Romance, the Grail and the Orient in Parzival
11.45-12.30 Dennis Müller (Bonn): Erzählen von Unwahrheit, Lug, Betrug und list im Tristan Gottfrieds von Straßburg
Guided Tour of St Edmund Hall
Session 3 (Chair: Annette Volfing)
14.30-15.15 Anna Bücken (Bonn): Vorstellungen von Himmel und Paradies in Wolframs Parzival (Vortrag und Diskussion)
15.15-16.00 Anna Branford (Somerville): Frauenlobs Marienleich
Session 4 (Chair: Elke Brüggen)
16.30-17.15 Melina Dervenich (Bonn): Krankheit und Körper – Das Verhältnis von Gott und Mensch in der Kaiserchronik am Beispiel der Narcissus-Vita
17.15-18.00 Isabella Clarke (Oriel): The human body in Mechthild von Magdeburg's Das fließende Licht der Gottheit
Thursday, 23 June
Session 5 (Chair: Henrike Lähnemann)
10.00-10.45 Sebastian Winkelsträter (Bonn): Heterotopien. Bild-Text-Relationen in Thomasîns von Zerclaere Welschem Gast. Fallstudien zum Cod.37.19 Aug.2°
Taylor Institution Library, Graduate Study Room
11.00-11.45 Naomi Gee (LMH): Flugschriften der frühen Reformationszeit in der Taylorian Library
11.45-12.30 Arbeit an den Drucken
Session 6 (Chair: Birgit Zacke)
15.00-15.45 Lisa Maser (Bonn): Riesen, Zwerg und Ungeheuer: Zu den übernatürlichen Gegnern Daniels in Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal
15.45-16.30 Jens Müller (Bonn): Das neue Ideal. Zur Funktion intertextueller Bezüge in Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal
St Edmund Hall, Chapel
18.00 Scenes from the 'Juttenspiel' (in English), followed by drinks
Friday, 24 June
10.00-12.00 Walker Thompson (Magdalen): Die 95 Thesen. Introdution to Historical Printing Techniques in the Bibliographic Press, Bodleian