Series of events for the Grimm Poetics Professorship

Events as part of the Grimm Poetics Professorship in summer semester 2022

current planning status (April 2022):

Wed., July 6, 2022, 6-8 p.m. | public poetics lecture: "Why tell stories?" (Campus Center, Lecture Hall II)
Thu., July 7, 2022, 2-4 p.m. | Poetics seminar for Kassel students: "Why be in the world?"
Thursday, July 7, 2022, 6-8 p.m. | public reading from Die Heldin reist (2022) with film excerpts: "Warum unterwegs sein?" (Campus Center, Lecture Hall I)

Grimm Poetics Professor 2022: Doris Dörrie
Since the success of her relationship comedy MÄNNER (D 1985), Doris Dörrie has been considered "Germany's most successful [ ] director" according to the much-quoted headline in Der Spiegel. To date, she has been responsible for almost forty feature and documentary films as a director and often as a screenwriter for cinema and television. Examples in chronological order are BIN ICH SCHÖN? (D 1998), NACKT (D 2002), ERLEUCHTUNG GARANTIERT (D 1999), DIE FRISEUSE (D 2010), KLIMAWECHSEL (D2010), KIRSCHBLÜTEN - HANAMI (D 2008), ALLES INKLUSIVE (D 2014), GRÜSSE AUS FUKUSHIMA (D 2016) and KIRSCHBLÜTEN & DÄMONEN (D 2019). In the year of her Grimm Poetics Professorship, FREIBAD (D 2022) will premiere in September.

Her films have won numerous awards, including German Film Awards (1986), Bavarian Film Awards (1998, 2008, 2012), the Grimme Prize (2011) and Max Ophüls (Honorary) Awards (1984, 2018). In 2019, she was appointed as a member of the Oscar Academy to vote on the awarding of the 'Oscars'.

But Doris Dörrie is not only known as a director. With over two dozen book publications to her name, she has now also entered the public eye on an equal footing as an author. In 2003, she was honored with the German Book Prize for her autobiographical novel Das blaue Kleid (2002), in which she deals with the sudden death of her husband, colleague and cameraman Helge Weindler. Janet Schayan has aptly stated:

"Today, feature writers argue whether she is better at writing books or making movies. The answer is simple: Doris Dörrie can do both."

Doris Dörrie has also been a professor of "Applied Dramaturgy and Material Development" at the University of Television and Film in Munich since 1997. With her current book publication Leben, schreiben, atmen (2019), she also provides inspiration for creative writing - in line with the subtitle Eine Einladung zum Schreiben - to a wider readership.

Doris Dörrie was originally due to receive the Kassel Grimm Poetry Professorship in 2020. Due to the corona pandemic, the GPP events have now been postponed to the summer semester 2022.

The Brothers Grimm Poetry Professorship
The Poetry Professorship has been awarded by the University of Kassel since 1985 and is currently endowed by the Kasseler Sparkasse. To date, important authors, playwrights and filmmakers have been honored - including Herta Müller (1998), Volker Schlöndorff (2011) and Felicitas Hoppe (2019). In public events, the award winners reflect on artistic processes and their works.

Brothers Grimm Poetry Professorship
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