Aslı Vatansever (PhD University of Hamburg, 2010), a sociologist of work and social stratification from Turkey. "Ein Sommerhaus für sich allein" - Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung >īard College Berlin welcomes Dr. "Nach Saint Tropez, der Liebe wegen" - Article on Deutschlandfunk > "Die Priesterin" - Article in Süddeutsche Zeitung > "Julia Schröder empfiehlt Helen Wolff: Hintergrund für Liebe" - Clip and article on the "Lesenswert Quartett" on SWR2 > The Book: Helen Wolff, Hintergrund für Liebe, edited and with an essay by Marion Detjen, Weidle, Bonn 2020 > Please register for a ticket to the online conversation between Marion Detjen and Bettina Fischer. Marion Detjen, who is Helen Wolff’s great nice, published the novel posthumously almost ninety years after it was written and will give a talk about the book and its author at the Literaturhaus Köln.Įvent: Thursday, January 28, 7.30 pm CET, Literaturhaus Köln, online Helen Wolff’s autobiographical novel Hintergrund für Liebe (Background for Love) tells the story of a young woman’s emancipation in the early 1930’s. There is no charge to attend the event on Zoom, the British Institute asks that you consider making a donation to support the Institute and its beautiful library if you wish to attend an event. ![]() To join this lecture with Zoom (no reservation necessary), simply click on this link at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, February 3. Laura Scuriatti will discuss Loy's aesthetic and feminist commitment to the nascent avant-garde in the context of her life in the Tuscan capital, and show how Florence functioned as a vibrant international nexus for the exchange and elaboration of modernist art. She learned to speak Italian and responded in her works both to the politics and aesthetics of the vociferous Futurists and to the vital intellectual debates internal to the Anglo-American expatriate community." ![]() She lived in Florence until 1916, at first with her husband and then just with her children, and in this period she developed into an extremely original avant-garde poet and writer, whose work was published in the most renowned literary magazines in the US. "When the British-born Mina Loy (1882-1966) moved to Florence from Paris in 1907 with her husband, the painter and illustrator Stephen Haweis, she was a budding young artist who had made it into the Salon d'Automne. ![]() BCB Professor of Literature Laura Scuriatti will give a talk about her book Mina Loy's Critical Modernism ( University Press of Florida, 2019) at the British Institute of Florence.
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