 Commemorating
the 100th Birthday of Marlene Dietrich
October 25-28, 2001
Conference Schedule:
Thursday, October 25
6:30 pm Welcoming
reception, Wheelock, Hanover Inn
8:00 pm Film Screening:
Marlene (Dir. Joseph Vilsmaier, 2000), 13 Carpenter. Limited to Conference Participants
Friday, October 26 Wren Room, Sanborn
8:45 am Welcoming
Remarks, Jamshed Bharucha (Dean of the Faculty)
Sesssion 1, 9:00-10:30 am: "Die deutsche
Dietrich". Moderator: Noah Isenberg (Wesleyan University)
9:00-9:25 am Joseph
Garncarz (Universität Köln) "German
Garbo: Marlene Dietrich's Career and Image Before
Sternberg"
9:25-9:50 am Eric
Rentschler (Harvard University) "Vilsmaier's
Marlene: The Icon Between the Fronts"
9:50-10:30 am Discussion
10:30-11:00 am Coffee
Break
Session 2, 11:00-12:30 am: "Terms of Dismemberment".
Moderator: Christian Rogowski (Amherst College)
11:00-11:25 am Lutz
Koepnick (Washington University, St. Louis) "Dietrich's
Face"
11:25-11:50 am Nora
Alter (University of Florida, Gainesville) "Dietrich's
Legs"
11:50 am-12:30 pm Discussion
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch
Break
Session3, 2:00-3:30 pm: "Venus in Hollywood:
Marketing Dietrich as a Star in 1930s America".
Moderator: Ulrike Rainer (Dartmouth College)
2:00-2:25 pm Patrice
Petro (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Hollywood
Berlin: Dietrich, The Blue Angel, amd Multiple
Language Versions"
2:25-2:50 pm Mary
Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona) "Homemaker
and/or Adventurer: The Challenge of Advertising Marlene
Dietrich as Blonde Venus"
2:50-3:30 Discussion
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee
Break
Session 4, 4:00-5:30 pm: "Dietrich and
the Negotiation of a Wartime Identity". Moderator
Michael Ermarth (Dartmouth College)
4:00-4:25 pm Amy
Lawrence (Dartmouth College) "Marlene Dietrich:
The Voice as Mask"
4:25-4:50 pm Teri
Tynes (Independent Scholar, Columbia, South Carolina)
"A Hot Bath, Clean Clothes amd Marlene Dietrich:
Lili Marlene in the USO and the Defeat of Hitler"
4:50-5:30 pm Discussion
5:30-7:00 pm Dinner,
Hanover Inn
7:00 pm Film Screening:
Marlene (Maximilian Schell, 1982). Introduction
and Discussion: Werner Sudendorf (Film Museum Berlin)
9:30 pm and 11:30 pm Live
Performance: James Beaman's "Black Market Marlene:
A Dietrich Cabaret" Lone Pine Tavern (Collis).
 Saturday,
October 27 2 Rockefeller
Session 5, 9:00-10:30 am: "Dietrich as Auto/Biographical
Subject". Moderator: Steven Bach (Columbia University).
9:00-9:25 am Amelie
Hastie (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Autobiography,
Ephemerality, Advice: Marlene Dietrich's ABC"
9:25-9:50 am Mary
Desjardins (Dartmouth College) "Dietrich Dearest:
Family Memoir and the Fantasy of Origins"
9:50-10:30 Discussion
10:30-11:00 am Coffee
Break
Session 6, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm: "Falling in Love
Again: Dietrich and Negotiations of Sexuality".
Moderator: Angela Rosenthal (Dartmouth College)
11:00-11:25 am Alice
Kuzniar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"'It Isn't Often That I Want a Man:' The Bisexual
Double Life and Films of Marlene Dietrich"
11:25-11:50 am Gaylyn
Studlar (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) "Marlene
Dietrich and the Erotics of Hollywood Classicism"
11:50 am -12:30 pm Discussion
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch
Break
Session7, 2:00-3:30 pm: "Deconstructing Dietrich
in Post War Films". Moderator: Monika Totten (MIT)
2:00-2:25 pm Mark
Williams (Dartmouth College) "Get/Away: Structure
and Desire in Rancho Notorious"
2:25-2:50 pm Don
Pease (Dartmouth College) "Making Hybrid the
European Exile Body"
2:50-3:30 pm Discussion
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee
Break
Session 8: "Dietrich as Icon". Moderator:
Jeffrey Ruoff (Dartmouth College)
4:00-4:25 pm Elisabeth
Bronfen (Universität Zürich) "Exile
and Birth of The Star"
4:25-4:50 pm Judith
Mayne (Ohio State University) "In the Dietrich
Archive"
4:50-5:30 pm Discussion
7:00 pm Dinner Party
at the Norwich Inn
Link to general conference
information
Link to travel information
More Marlene Dietrich links:
http://www.marlene.com
- the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin's Marlene Dietrich
site
http://www.fffb.de
- Freunde und Förderer des Filmmuseums Berlin
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