***Please note: This lecture will be held in German***
This event will take place at 42 Washington Mews. This semester, according to NYU guidelines, in-person events will be open to NYU students, staff, and faculty only. Daily Covid-19 Screeners will be checked at the door. Members of NYU should RSVP here.
The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a talk by Professor Elisabeth Bronfen, who will speak on “Die Kriminalgeschichte bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Eine medial wandernde Erzählform.”
In der Tradition des amerikanischen Film Noir dient die Auflösung eines Verbrechens in den Romanen von Friedrich Dürrenmatt nie nur der Rekonstruktion eines Kriminalfalls. Vielmehr wird das Psychogram eines Mörders entfaltet, welches zudem kollektiv konzipiert ist. Die Schweiz und ihr Verhältnis zum Nationalsozialismus schwingt bei der Untersuchung immer mit. Zugleich hat Dürrenmatt seine Kriminalgeschichten oft filmisch gedacht. Anhand von seiner Novelle “Das Versprechen” und den beiden Verfilmungen “Es geschah am Hellichten Tage” und “The Pledge”soll das Besondere seiner Kriminalgeschichten erläutert werden
©Linda Nicholas
Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She completed her habilitation at the University of Munich on representations of femininity and death. Her areas of specialization include gender studies, psychoanalysis, visual culture, and television seriality. She published Obsession. The Cultural Critic’s Life in the Kitchen with Rutgers University Press, and Serial Shakespeare. An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American TV Drama with Manchester University Press.
This event will take place at 42 Washington Mews. This semester, according to NYU guidelines, in-person events will be open to NYU students, staff, and faculty only. Daily Covid-19 Screeners will be checked at the door. Members of NYU should RSVP here.
“Die Kriminalgeschichte bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Eine medial wandernde Erzählform" is funded by the DAAD from funds of the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).
