On the occasion of the exhibition Max Liebermann. An Impressionist from Berlin we present:
Theodor Fontane and Italy, lecture by Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile (Universität Potsdam, President of the Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft)
Presentation of the latest volume in the series “Schriften der Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft”: Grenzüberschreitungen in Theodor Fontanes Werk (De Gruyter 2024) in conversation with editors Claudia Buffagni (University for Foreigners of Siena) and Maria Paola Scialdone (University of Macerata).
The event inaugurates the cultural program of the Italian section of the Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft founded by Claudia Buffagni and Maria Paola Scialdone.
The conference will take place in Italian language.
Despite their age difference, Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) and Max Liebermann (1847-1935) have much in common. Their strong ties to Berlin, their irony, their ability to observe and return the world, albeit through different languages, with attention and lucidity, and, last but not least, their trespassing into Italy in the later phase of the centuries-old Grand Tour experience. Their paths met both in the sphere of portraiture (Liebermann portrays Fontane) and on the level of illustration, when Liebermann, thirty years after the publication of the celebrated Fontanian novel Effi Briest (1896), dedicated a cycle of lithographs to him.
On the morning of November 9, at 9:30 a.m., the first assembly of the Italian section of the Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft will be held at the Goethe House, to which all interested parties (scholars or simple readers or connoisseurs who are passionate about Fontane, are invited to join by writing to: maria.scialdone@unimc.it
Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile © private
Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile has been Professor of Cultures of the Enlightenment at the University of Potsdam since 2015 and Chairman of the Theodor Fontane Society. He has been a visiting professor at the Università di Bologna, the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, the National University of Ireland in Galway and Duke University, North Carolina, among others. Together with Peer Trilcke, he publishes the “Große Brandenburger Ausgabe” of Fontane’s works for the publishing house Aufbau Verlag as well as the journal of the Fontane Archive, “Fontane Blätter”. In addition to the biography Fontane, “Ein Jahrhundert in Bewegung” (2018, Rowohlt Verlag), he has published numerous articles, including a research on the relationship between Fontane’s journalistic and literary work (in “Text und Kritik”, “Fontanes Medien”, “Fontane Handbuch”).
Claudia Buffagni © private
Claudia Buffagni is Associate Professor of German Language and Translation at the University for Foreigners in Siena, where she directs the Linguistic and Cultural Mediation programme. Her research interests include the syntax of German and Italian journalistic text genres, the audiovisual translation of German-language art films and oral doctor-patient communication. A particular focus is the translation of humour and turpiloquium (use of swear words). Since 2012 she has been co-editor of the series ‘InterLinguistics. Studi contrastivi tra Lingue e Culture’ (ETS, Pisa) and since 2023 she is member of the editorial board of the “Revue de Traduction et Langues” (Université d’Oran 2).
Maria Paola Scialdone © private
Maria Paola Scialdone is Associate Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Macerata. Her research interests include literary anthropology, with a special focus on the phenomenon of writing about the self (autobiographies, epistolary letters), especially in the field of pietism and women, and emotions in literature (Wende); the Goethe Age (odeporica); the perception and representation of space in literature, with particular attention to geopoetics from the Goethezeit to contemporary times. Her field of investigation is also the representations of Otherness (Fremde and the poetics of trespassing in Theodor Fontane; the perception of the Jew in E.T.A. Hoffmann, in Theodor Fontane and in Gertrud Kolmar).
Image: Max Liebermann, Theodor Fontane, 1896, litografia su carta, Max-Liebermann-Gesellschaft Berlin
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