Conrad Festival 2011
The reading lesson with Grzegorz Jankowicz
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Robert Walser's micrograms (opening of the exhibition)
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Robert Walser. Microscripts (opening of the exhibition)
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Itamar Loves Animals | Itamar Meets a Rabbit
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Opera: Itamar Meets a Rabbit
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The reading lesson with Tadeusz Sławek
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Who will run with me? A meeting with David Grossman
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Robert Walser and Other Ghosts. Meeting with Matteo Terzaghi
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Novel Now
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Coprophags or hated, but indispensable
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Coprophags or the Hated, but Indispensable
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Politics of the Future. A Disagreement between Left and Liberalism
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The Link Between the Days
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Digital Photography: is it still Photography? - spotkanie z Andre Rouille
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The Joseph Conrad Annual Lecture: Alberto Manguel
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Global Literature: Chances and Risks
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Brothers Quay's films
Brothers Quay's films
Introduction: Werner Morlang
Short films inspired by Robert Walser’s works
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet
1988, 1'
The Comb
1990, 17'
Tales From The Vienna Woods
1992, 3'
Benjament Institute
A film adaptation of Robert Walser’s novel Jakob von Gunten.
United Kingdom 1995, 104m'
Jakob von Gunten, descendant of an aristocratic family, enrols at the Benjament Institute to become a servant. The owners of the school are Johannes Benjament and his sister Lisa. During the lessons, a group of superannuated students practice elegant bows and expressions, fold napkins, clean cutlery and carry buckets of water. Von Gunten, observing others with curiosity, learns the dark secrets of the facility. He soon perceives a sexual interest from Johannes, who lives in an incestuous relationship with his sister. However, beautiful Lisa and top student Kraus also seek to win his affection. Jakob's appearance accelerates the long-progressing process of decadence at the Institute... The script was based on the novel Jakob von Gunten (1908) by Robert Walser, an eminent Swiss writer, and the film gained a special award at the Locarno Festival.
Free entrance card to be collected at the cinema box office on the day of the screening.
3 November, at 21:00 Pod Baranami Cinema
Brothers Quay's films:
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Soul Side Story
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Concert: Tomasz Budzyński & Friends
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Concert: Tomasz Budzyński & Friends
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The reading lesson with Jacek Dehnel
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From one into another. On translation, on an example
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The Illegal Norwegian
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Women Under Pressure
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The Ideal Reader. Meeting with Alberto Manguel
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Some Thoughts on Contemporary Photography - lecture by Michael Fried
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The Untold Story
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The Untold Story
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Hakol Zorem, Everything Flows - a personal journey between literature and music
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Hakol Zorem, Everything Flows - a personal journey between literature and music
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Fiction and Holocaust. Meeting with Steve Sem Sandberg
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Film screening: Branca de Neve
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Film: Branca de Neve
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The Battlefield. Meeting with Michel Houellebecq
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Poetic Transformations (Polish/French)
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The translation reading lesson with Magda Heydel
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Poetic Transformations (Polish/Italian)
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The Man Who Sleeps
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The Joseph Conrad Annual Lecture:
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A Refugee from the Circumstances
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Translation and Politics
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Dating sessions.
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Archeology of future
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Aller gute Dinge sind drei
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Lost in translation. Meeting with Eva Hoffman
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Literature and Gods. Meeting with Roberto Calasso
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Film screening: Der Vormund und sein Dichter
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Film: Der Vormund und sein Dichter
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Children’s Literature Reading Lesson with Joanna Olech
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The Face Book. Meeting with Marek Bieńczyk
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The Second Life of Opera. Meeting with Mariusz Treliński
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The Trance. Meeting with Manuela Gretkowska
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The Hygienists. Meeting with Maciej Zaremba
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Popoetry. Poetry Reading by Brian Patten
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Odysseus’s Dog: an Essay for voice and double bass
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Odysseus’s Dog: an Essay for voice and double bass
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Out of the Head. Meeting with Janusz Głowacki
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