Tuesday, November 13, 2001
Drachlis Hall (496), Gilman Building, Tel Aviv University

9:00 – 12.30
Introduction                            Moshe Zuckermann
                                                 Director, Institute for German History

Na’ama Sheffi, Tel Aviv       The Politics of Wagner in Israel

Chaim Gans, Tel Aviv           The Israeli Wagner Boycott – Moral Aspects

Jochen Hörisch, Mannheim    Fascination with Death in Wagner’s (and Thomas Mann’s) Work In German
                                                Download as Word document

Dieter Schnebel, Berlin        “The Ring of the Nibelung” as Gesamtkunstwerk

12:30 - 14:30        Lunch

14:30 – 17:30
Gad Kaynar, Tel Aviv           The Gesamtkunstwerk and Its Impact on Hanoch Levin and Others

Susanna Vill, Bayreuth           Transformation as a Musical-Dramatic and Spiritual Program in Wagner’s Work
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Hartmut Zelinsky, Munich     From Levi to Levine – Tracing the Jewish Wagnerian in the Reception of Wagner

Judd Ne’eman, Tel Aviv        “Apocalypse Now” – The Opera that Wagner Did Not Write
                                               In German and Hebrew (with simultaneous translation)

In cooperation with the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv

The public is invited
 

Other Events

Monday, November 12, 2001
The Samuel Rubin Israel Academy of Music, Clairmont Auditorium,
Tel Aviv University
 

19:30-21:00                          Concert with works by Richard Wagner ( for Piano and Voice)
                                              Performed by students of the Academy
Greetings:                            Ami Maayani,
                                              Director, Israel Academy of Music

Invitations can be obtained at the Israel Academy of Music

Wednesday, November 14, 2001
The Felicja Blumental Music Center and Library, 26 Bialik St., Tel Aviv

18:30-21:30                          Panel discussion with participants of the symposium “Wagner in Context”:
                                              German and Hebrew (with simultaneous translation)

                                              “Revolution – Reaction – Commotion”

Chair:                                   Moshe Zuckermann,
                                              Director, Institute for German History

Organized by the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv

Thursday, November 15, 2001
The Felicja Blumental Music Center and Library, 26 Bialik St., Tel Aviv

19:00                                      Screening of documentary movie on
                                               “Winifred Wagner and the History of Wahnfried House”(1975)
                                               by Hans Jürgen Syberberg
                                               German with English subtitles, 104 minutes

Organized by the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv