ALL WELCOME!!
Melbourne/Manchester Collaborative Research
Censorship under Communism: Institutions and Agents of Control in Literary Communication in the German Democratic Republic
First Workshop
Manchester 21 February 2017
10.30am – 5pm
Venue: C138, Ellen Wilkinson Building
(Meeting Room HCRI)
10.30 Alison Lewis and Steve Parker: Introduction to the Project
10.45 Alison Lewis: The Stasi’s book reviewers: Aesthetic gatekeepers, ideological police or members of a secret surveillance society?
11.30 Matthew Philpotts: The Role of the Editor of the Literary Journal
12.30-2.00 Lunch at Whitworth Art Gallery Cafe
2.00-2.45 Cathy Gelbin: Stefan Heym, East Germany’s Dissident Number One: A Life under Surveillance
2.45-3.30 Kate Hiepko: Medical Journals in the GDR
3.30-4.15 Steve Parker, Self-control, Control, Out of Control? Brecht and the Channelling of Literary Communication in the early GDR
4.15-5.00 Concluding reflections and forward planning