The Dessau-Wörlitz Commission dedicates this year’s annual conference, organised in cooperation with the Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz and the Pückler Gesellschaft für die Erforschung und Erhaltung historischer Gärten e.V., to the history of the landscape garden in its cross-border dimensions.

In addition to genuinely garden-artistic, landscape-aesthetic, and cultural questions, the conference also wants to take a look at the dynastic-political and genealogical motifs of landscape designs in Poland, Russia, or the Old Empire. The conference will discuss the garden-artistic dramatization of manorial gardens as memorial landscapes of an ancient ancestral origin of one’s own noble family or the design of neo-Gothic or Classicist garden buildings and country estates as paternalistic-patriotic or national places of remembrance in their respective semantics. The international colloquium will create a dialogue of renowned art historians and scholars with garden monument conservators from various landscape gardens in Poland and Germany.

Concept and scientific direction: PD Dr. Michael Niedermeier, Dr. Jana Kittelmann, Dr. Ingo Pfeifer, Dr. Andrea Thiele

Paper Sessions:
Interactions: Gardens in Germany and Poland /
Actors in the Field of Garden Design
Media of Mediation: Garden Books
Memory Culture, Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism in German and Polish Gardens
Landscape Gardens in Central and East-Central Europe – Research, Maintenance and Preservation

The complete conference programme can be accessed on the conference website: https://www.izea.uni-halle.de/en/events/detail/internationale-wissenschaftliche-konferenz-jahrestagung-der-dessau-woerlitz-kommission-2021.html

Conference venue:
Historischer Gasthof „Zum Eichenkranz“, Alter Wall 99, D-06785 Wörlitz

The conference will be organized as hybrid event.

The realisation of the event is subject to potential restrictions depending on the further development of the Corona pandemic. The number of participants is limited.

If you wish to join the conference, please fill in the registration form provided on the IZEA website (https://www.izea.uni-halle.de/en/events/detail/internationale-wissenschaftliche-konferenz-jahrestagung-der-dessau-woerlitz-kommission-2021.html) and send it to us by email (dwk@izea.uni-halle.de), fax or mail by 30 August 2021.

Conference fees will be charged according to the number of days.

Contact:

Dessau-Wörlitz-Kommission: Dr. Andrea Thiele

Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung (IZEA)
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle- Wittenberg
Franckeplatz 1, Haus 54
06110 Halle (Saale), Germany
www. izea.uni-halle.de

Tel.: +49 345 55 21772
andrea.thiele(at)izea.uni-halle.de

Hosted by:

Dessau-Wörlitz-Kommission c/o Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung (IZEA), MLU Halle-Wittenberg
Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz

Partners:
Pückler Gesellschaft e.V. zu Berlin für die Erhaltung und Erforschung historischer Gärten
Instytut Zachodni, Poznań
Gesellschaft der Freunde des Dessau-Wörlitzer-Gartenreichs
Stiftung Fürst Pückler Museum Park & Schloss Branitz
Stiftung Fürst Pückler-Park Bad Muskau
Professur für Geschichte der Landschaftsarchitektur und Gartendenkmalpflege in Dresden

Sponsored by:
Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
Investitions- und Marketing-Gesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg