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Wednesday, September 30, 1998
I. Mysteries of FPG's Autobiography
3.15 - 4.45 pm: Session Chair, Claus Lappe, UM
German
Sarah Dammermann (University of Toronto)
Escaping the Self Through Pseudonym: Renaming as Anti-Biography
Markus
Müller (University of Ottawa/Trier: Full-Text)
The Double Agent, or How Grove's Masquerade Writes His Autobiography
Tamara Pianos (Kiel University)
FPG's Over Prairie Trails: “...one quarter of a poem woven
of impression."
Wine & Cheese Reception
(courtesy, UM President, Emöke Szathmáry)
5.30 - 7.00 pm, 9th Floor Foyer
Thursday, October 1, 1998
II. The Canadian Writer I
9.00 -10.30 am: Session Chair, Robert Kroetsch,
UM English
Konrad Gross (Kiel University)
Space into Place: Manitoba in Grove's Pioneer Novels
Victor Doerksen (University
of Manitoba)
House and Home: Abode in Grove's Canadian Writings
Walter Pache (Augsburg University)
Greek to us, Grove: Over Prairie Trails as Odyssey
Coffee & Danish, 10.30 - 11.00 am
Thursday, October 1, 1998
III. The Canadian Writer II: Grove's Settlers
of the Marsh
11.00-12.30 am: Session Chair, David Arnason,
UM English
Robert Alan Burns (University
of Guam: Full-Text)
Grove and the Goddess: The Language of Myth and Ritual in Settlers
of the Marsh
Lorne Lulashnyk (Winnipeg)
Greve & Else's autobiographical experience in Grove's Settlers
of the Marsh
Henry Makow (Winnipeg)
Personal Reflections on Settlers of the Marsh
Lunch Break, 12.30 - 2.30 pm (on your own)
Thursday, October 1, 1998
IV. The Two Lives of F.P.Greve/Grove
2.30-4.00 pm: Session Chair, Paul Fortier, UM
French
Bruce Thomson (Winnipeg)
Greve's Passage to America, The Titanic, and Grove's Bonanza Farm
Connection
Hiram M. Drache (Concordia College,
Moorhead, Minn.)
The Amenia & Sharon Bonanza Farm in the Early
Twentieth Century
Donald Smith (University of Calgary)
Impostors in Early Western Canada: Grove & Grey Owl: a slide
lecture
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Banquet
Thursday Night,
October
1, 1998
at the Marlborough Hotel, "The Devonshire" / 9th Floor
(Catering by Victor's
Restaurant)
Cash Bar, 6.30-7.00 p.m.
Dinner, 7.00-10.00 p.m.
Menu
Soup of Carrot
Boston Salad with Lime-Champagne Dressing
Veal
Piccata in Lemon & White
Wine Sauce
Herb Stuffed Potato, Cauliflower au
Gratin, Green Beans with Almonds
Cheesecake with Amaretto Sauce
Banquet Chairs
Myroslav Shkandrij, UM & Neil Besner,
UW
Special Guests
The Right Honorable Edward Schreyer
Leonard & Mary Grove
Authors Carol Shields & Robert Kroetsch
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Friday, October 2, 1998
VI. Muse and Artist in Berlin, New York, Paris:
Else Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven
9.00 -10.30 am: Session Chair, David Williams
Gisi von Freytag-Loringhoven (Tübingen)
"Life is a Work of Art: Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's Significance
for the Arts
Julia Van Haaften (New York Public Library)
Modeling the Artists' Life: Baroness Elsa and Berenice Abbott
Irene Gammel (University of Prince Edward Island)
Freytag-Loringhoven's "Orgasmic Toast" and "Ready-to-Wear-American
Soul Poetry"
Coffee Break, 10.30 - 11.00 am
Friday, October 2, 1998
VII. FPG's Contacts in Europe and Canada
11.00-12.30 am: Session Chair, Victor Doerksen,
UM German
Helge David (Bonn
University: Full-Text)
A Menage-à-Trois: August Endell, Else Endell and Felix
Paul Greve in 1902/3
Gaby Divay (University of Manitoba)
FPG International: Stefan George, Karl Wolfskehl, Franziska von
Reventlow, Thomas Mann, Gide, H. G. Wells, Insel Publishers & more
(Correspondence & Other
Research Resources at the UM Archives)
Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta)
The Canonization of Frederick Philip Grove as a Canadian Writer
Lunch Break, 12.30 - 2.30 pm
Friday, October 2, 1998
VIII. Greve as Essayist and Translator
2.30-4.00 pm: Session Chair, Rory Egan, UM Classics
Axel Knönagel (Rostock University)
Greve and Oscar Wilde: Promotion and Projection
Martin
Kuester (Augsburg University: Full-Text)
“...better than Gulliver's Travels? " FPG as Translator
and Parodist of Swift's Satires
Heinz Sarkowski (Heidelberg]
Greve's Translations for the Insel Verlag, 1902-1909
[English
summary presented in absentia by Claus Lappe, UM German]
Conference Closing Remarks
Robert Kroetsch, UM English & Myroslav Shkandrij,
UM Slavics
Spontaneous Comments from the Audience:
Walter Pache, Augsburg
4.00 - 4.30 pm
Coffee & Danish
Saturday, October 3, 1998
9.00 am - 7.00 pm:
Guide, Richard Ottenbreit, UW
Post-Conference Tour
through Grove Country to his grave in Rapid City
Departure and Return, Ramada-Marlborough Hotel
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