Wednesday 1 September 1999
Information & conference folder
8:00-9:00 Foyer of the Großer Festsaal Registration
Concepts of Identity for Descendants of Victims and Perpetrators of the Holocaust
9:00-13:00 Großer Festsaal lectures & discussions
9:00 Introduction and Welcome
Katherine Klinger United Kingdom
Bernhard Schneider Austria
9:30 Lecture
Absence / Presence: Mass Extermination in the Mirror of the Present
Micha Brumlik Germany
10:15 Lecture
"The First Victim": Collective Memory and its Transformations in Post-War Austria
Heidemarie Uhl Austria
11:00 Coffee break
11h30 Panel
Challenging Identities – Legacy or Choice? Reflections from Eyewitnesses and Descendants
Peter Pulzer United Kingdom Daniel Strauß Germany Ruth Beckermann Austria Micha Brumlik Germany Heidemarie Uhl Austria
Presenter: Peter Huemer Austria
13:00 Lunch
Expressing Concepts of Identity through Creativity
14:30-16:00 Seminar rooms Workshops
Workshop 1 Conceptual Art English
Melissa Gould USA Wiener Blut - family history inspires one artist to process the past
Workshop 2 Film German
Ruth Beckermann Austria Against the Identity Fuss
Workshop 3 Writing Workshop German
Renate Welsh Austria Schreibend Spuren suchen
Workshop 4 Literature German
Doron Rabinovici Austria Jiddentity - the Twilight of Times
Workshop 5 Art German
Alfred Ullrich Germany Energy Line or Changing Colours
Workshop 6 Music German
Gottfried Wagner Italy "Entartete Musik"
Workshop 7 Film German
Eduard Erne Germany / Austria Past / Present
Workshop 8 Film German
Melanie Spitta and Katrin Seybold Germany Sinteza and non-Gipsy
Workshop 9 Film German
Ronny Loewy Germany Auschwitz: Five Days in November
Workshop 10 Theatre German
Heini Brossmann Austria Otherness
Workshop 11 Painting German
Charlotte Kohn Austria Curiosity Needs to Grow Bigger than Fear. The dissolving of self-imposed victim or perpetrator status through art
16:00 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Seminar rooms Open Forums or Presentations of Work in Progress
Open Forums Presentations 1 Memories of Survivors Presentations 2 Creative Responses to the Memory of the Holocaust
Dorit Whiteman USA The Emotional Consequences of the Escapée Experience English Stephan C. Feinstein USA Absence/Presence: The Artistic Memory of the Holocaust & Genocide. Constructing an Art Exhibit in an American Context English
Miriam Rieck Israel Holocaust survivors in Psychological Literature and in their Testimonies English Rayah Redlich Israel Assimilated Evil in my artwork English
Miriam Markstein Austria The Trauma of the Parents and the Second/Third Generation German Nancy Ann Coyne USA Poster Series. "Made in Austria" English / German
20:00 Reception hosted by the Mayor of Vienna, Rathauskeller Lanner-Lehar Salon
2 Day 3 Day Overview
German