The myth of the Secret Germanies

Secret Germanies illustration

Diffusion conference sponsored by the University of Copenhagen, the laboratory Pays Germaniques of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and the European Commission.

Programme

 

South Campus, room 4A-1-46

14:15 Conference opening / Greetings
Chair: Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen)
14:30 Carlotta Santini (CNRS-ENS/University of Copenhagen) The myth of the Secret Germanies/Der Mythos des Geheimen Deutschland
15:20 Paul Fleming (Cornell University) The Latent and the Manifest: ‘Secret Germany’ in German (Mytho) Poetics
16:10 Coffee break
Chair: Daniel Weidner (Universität Halle)
16:30 George S. Williamson (Florida State University) Early Romanticism and the Idea of Secret Germany
17:20 Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen) Lessings 'Geheimnis'

 

 

South Campus, room 4A-1-46

Chair: Glenn W. Most (Chicago University/Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
09:00 Alexander Knopf (University of Copenhagen) Work on The picture of Frederick II from Romanticism to the Third Reich
09:50 Enno Rudolph (Luzern) Das Geheimnis und die Nation. Zur Aktualität von Ernst Kantorowicz
10:40 Coffee break
Chair: Carlotta Santini (CNRS-ENS/University of Copenhagen)
11:00 Daniel Weidner (Halle) Underground, Ark, and Hidden Tradition. The Poetics of a Secret German Judaism
11:50 Bruno Karsenti (EHESS, Paris) German denationalization and Jewish tradition. A reading of Scholem
12:40 Lunch break
Chair: Alexander Knopf (University of Copenhagen)
14:30 Charles Lock (University of Copenhagen) Emigrating toward inwardness: reflections on Amery, Celan, Adler
15:20 Gianluca Solla (Verona) „Denn Bleiben ist nirgends“: wie kann man seine Epoche herausfordern?
16:10 Coffee break
Chair: Glenn W. Most (Chicago University / Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
16:30 Barbara Picht (Viadrina, Frankfurt) Bildungsutopien im Vergleich: Das Geheime Deutschland, ‚Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter‘ und das ‚Nachleben der Antike'
17:20 Antje Wessels (Leiden) Aufgabe des Vergleichs. Uroffenbarung und mystisches Schweigen bei Walter F. Otto

 

 

Nørregade 10, Udvalgsværelse 3

Chair: Carlotta Santini (CNRS-ENS/University of Copenhagen)
09:00 Esther Oluffa Pedersen (Roskilde) Are Artificial Myths a Modern Invention? An Examination into Ernst Cassirer’s Ideas in The Myth of the State
09:50 Luca Crescenzi (Università di Trento/Istituto italiano di Studi Germanici) Thomas Manns „höheres Deutschtum“
10:40 Coffee break
Chair: Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen)
11:00 Gerard Raulet (Sorbonne) Kleine Geheimnisse und heimliche Strategien. Philologische Kämpfe um Hölderlins 'geheimes Deutschland'
11:50 Robert Norton (Notre Dame) Secret Germany. Stefan George and His Circle: Twenty Years Later

 

Sponsors

The conference is sponsored by the University of Copenhagen, the laboratory Pays Germaniques of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and the European Commission.