Programme
Workshops
Telling Tales
Lectures
Registration
Hotel Reservation

Workshops
   
   
Saturday, June 2nd 2001
 
Workshop 1 Mary Carter Smith, USA, (English),

Creative storytelling as a "weapon" against missunderstanding.

How to use your language and your words to express your feelings and your tension.
   
Workshop 2 Prof.Dr.Hans Jörg Uther, Austria, (German),

Märchen - ein gemeinsames europäisches Kulturgut

folklorist and researcher into folk tales ... is professor of German Studies and Literary Studies at the University of Essen, publisher and author of countless books, sagas and collections of fairy tales, and articles.

Fairytales as precursers of childrens' literature: What belongs to one's own culture? What is regarded as foreign? Unlike in any other genre, cross-border material and motifs can be established in fairy tales and other folk stories; this also applies to the language of pictures. The sources and archetypes of German-language fairy tales are a common European cultural heritage and can be found in the international
storytelling literature.
   
Workshop 3 Prof.Dr.Leander Petzoldt, Austria, (German),

What myths have to tell?

Lecture and workshop
Is professor of Folklore Studies and director of the Institute of European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck. He has published numerous works on
German studies, storytelling research and folklore studies, and works on dictionaries, collected works, handbooks and editions of readers.
   
Workshop 4 Peter Cook, USA, (English),

Creativity and American Sign Language Storytelling

Peter will give you information on the background:
Early education / Allen Ginsberg and Robert Panara / Flying Words Project the Role of ASL Literature in Deaf Culture and how do we play with ASL ?
Foundation/Ideas/Techniques/Dual Poetry/Group Poetry
 
Sunday, June 3rd 2001
 
Workshop 5 Margarete Wenzel, Austria, (German),

Story treasure

Starting with telling, your voice and body will be activated by drama exercises. Playing with different situations, imagination und tension our stories will lead us to other places...Treasures will be found, we will return gifted to our world.
   
Workshop 6 Antonio Rocha, Brasil, (English),

Mime and Storytelling

Workshop is in mime and storytelling. Focus on individual creativity with the use of metamorphosis along the invisible creating atmosphere and character.
   
Workshop 7 Francis Bebey, Kamerun, (English),

Worldmusic

Singer, Songwriter, author and storyteller and founder of worldmusic. He will give you an impression of how to combine instruments (guitar, ndehoo, mbira, etc) with storytelling in the old african Griot tradition.