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Series of Events for the Grimm Poetics Professorship
Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der Grimm-Poetikprofessur im SoSe 2022
Current planning status (April 2022):
Wed, July 6, 2022, 6-8 p.m. | public poetics lecture: "Why Tell?" (Campus Center, Lecture Hall II)
Thu, July 7, 2022, 2-4 p.m. | Poetics Seminar for Kassel Students: "Why Be in the World?"
Thurs, July 7, 2022, 6-8 p.m. | public reading from The Heroine Travels (2022) with film excerpts: "Why Be on the Road?" (Campus Center, Lecture Hall I)
Grimm-Poe tikpro fesso rin2022: Doris Dörr ie
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 Spiegel cover headline. To date, she has directed almost forty feature films and documentaries and often also written screenplays for cinema and television. Examples of these films are, in chronological order, BIN ICH SCHÖN? (D 1998), NACKT (D 2002), ERLEUCHTUNG GARANTIERT (D 1999), DIE FRISEUSE (D 2010), KLIMAWECHSEL (D 2010), 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 quite a few awards, including German Film Awards (1986), Bavarian Film Awards (1998, 2008, 2012), the Grimme Award (2011), and Max Ophüls (Honorary) Awards (1984, 2018). In 2019, she has been appointed as a member to the Oscar Academy to vote on the awarding of the 'Oscars'.
But Doris Dörrie is not only known as a director. With more than two dozen book publications, she has now come into equal public focus as an author. In 2003, she was awarded 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 films. The answer is simple: Doris Dörrie can do both."
Since 1997, Doris Dörrie has also been a professor of "Applied Dramaturgy and Material Development" at the University of Television and Film in Munich. With her current book publication Leben, schreiben, at men ( Living, Writing, Breathing, 2019), she also conveys impulses for creative writing - in accordance with the subtitle Eine Einladung zum Schreiben (An Invitation to Write) - to a larger readership.
Doris Dörrie was originally to receive the Kassel Grimm Poetics Professorship in 2020. Due to the Corona pandemic, the GPP events have now been postponed to SoSe 2022.
The Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship
The Poetics Professorship has been awarded by the University of Kassel since 1985 and is currently endowed by the Kassel Savings Bank. So far, important authors, playwrights and filmmakers have been honored - among them Herta Müller (1998), Volker Schlöndorff (2011) and Felicitas Hoppe (2019). The award winners reflect on artistic processes and their works in public events.
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