The Cultural Industries in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries: Britain and Germany Compared
Conference at the GHI (London) 19-21 November 2009
Preliminary Programme
Tagungsleitung: Professor Andreas Gestrich (GHI, London)
Professor Christiane Eisenberg (Großbritannien-Zentrum, HU Berlin)
Thursday 19 November 2009
17.30
Andreas Gestrich, London / Christiane Eisenberg, Berlin
Cultural Industries in Britain and Germany: Dimensions of Comparison
18.00-19.00
Keynote : Corey Ross, Birmingham
Media and Mass Culture in Britain and Germany
19.00-19.15
Clemens Zimmermann, Saarbrücken
Comment
Reception/ 19.30 Conference Dinner at GHI
Friday 20 November 2009
1870-1914: Britain, the Pioneer - Germany, the Latecomer?
09.15 – 10.00
Martin Loiperdinger, Trier
The Film Star – Made in Germany, Imported into Britain in 1911
10.00 – 10.45
Anselm Heinrich, Glasgow
Dream Palaces – Regional Theatres in Britain and Germany at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
10.45 – 11.15 coffee break
11.15 – 12.00
Tobias Becker, Berlin
Theatre as a Cultural Industry: Comparing Berlin and London, 1880-1930
12.00 – 12.15
Franz Brüggemeier, Freiburg
Comment
12.15 – 12.30 General discussion
12.30 – 14.00 lunch break
The Interwar Period: Commerce and Culture in Conflict?
14.00 – 14.45
Gerben Bakker, LSE
The Cinema and the Motion Picture Industry in Britain – compared with other European States and the USA
14.45-15.30
Rita Gudermann, Berlin
Merchandising Text and Image: German Publisher's Transnational Strategies in the Interwar Period"
15.30 – 16.00 coffee break
16.00-16.45
Susann Lewerenz, Berlin
'Germanizing' the Arts? Circus, Vaudeville, and Funfair Entertainment in Nazi Germany
16.45 – 17.00
Axel Schildt, Hamburg
Comment
17.00 – 17.30 General discussion
Saturday, 21 November 2009
After 1945: Unlimited Growth of the Cultural Industries?
09.15 – 10.00
Richard Coopey, LSE
The British Popular Music Business 1950-1975
10.00 – 10.45
Klaus Nathaus, Bielefeld
Why was there a 'Rock Revolution' in Britain? Comparing the Music Industry in Germany and Britain in the 1960s and '70s
10.45 – 11.15 coffee break
11.15 – 12.00
Christian Handke, Rotterdam
The Current Decline of the Music Business in Britain und Germany
12.00 – 12.15
Dave Laing, London
Comment
12.15 – 12.30 General discussion
12.30 – 14.00 lunch break
Australians "Commercial Culture" as "Dominant Culture":
A Model for the Future?
14.00 – 14.45
Sinje Steinmann, Berlin
A Little-Known Heyday of Cultural Business: Operatic Entrepreneurship at the Antipodes
14.45-15.30
Stephan Schwanke, Berlin
Surf Culture: Commercial Culture as a Way of Life
15.30 – 16.00 coffee break
16.00-16.45 General Discussion/Panel
Closing Remarks
Funded by the Thyssen Foundation
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