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Radio Play Ambros Adelwarth
By chance, I stumbled on a couple of links to a BBC radio play based on the third chapter of W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants. The adaptation was done by Edward Kemp, whose website describes him as “a...
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New Austerlitz Radio Dramatization
On Sunday December 16, 2012, BBC Radio 3 will broadcast a new radio dramatization (or dramatisation, for those in the UK) of W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz. The 90-minute broadcast will begin at...
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Listening to Austerlitz
It’s now possible to listen to the recently broadcast radio play based upon Sebald’s Austerlitz on the BBC website – but only for a limited time. It’s only up for six more days, presumably through...
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Dramatizing Austerlitz
When the BBC recently announced that it was going to air a radio “dramatisation” of W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, I am afraid I shuddered. Dramatizations (I’m stubbornly sticking with the American...
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Vertiginous Links for the New Year
Photograph of Oradour-sur-Glane by Will Stone. Five Dials #26 is focused on German writing, with a number of new short stories by young German writers, plus three essays on W.G. Sebald: Uwe Schutte’s...
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Sebald’s Apocalyptic Vision
Two years ago I wrote about British theater director Katie Mitchell’s plans to stage Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn in Cologne’s Schauspiel Haus in 2012. I never gave that production a second thought...
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Listen to “Sebald’s Apocalyptic Vision”
As I recently wrote, on June 8 BBC broadcast a short program on Katie Mitchell’s theater production of Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn called “Sebald’s Apocalyptic Vision.” Until June 15 (9:32 to be...
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Links, Sebald & Other – For October 2020
Barbara Kruger, Matchbooks, 1984 The world’s most comprehensive collection of concrete and visual poetry has been acquired by The University of Iowa, which has announced that its University Libraries...
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