The University of Regensburg (Germany) hosts the international seminar “Spanish Fury. New approaches to the work of Luis García Berlanga”. The event, which falls within the framework of the centenary of the Spanish filmmaker's birth and Spain's participation as Guest of Honor at the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair, is organized by Acción Cultural Española AC/E and the Spanish Film Library.
The academic meeting, open to all audiences, will take place on Thursday, May 19 from 4 to 7:30 p.m., on Friday 20 from 10 to 1:30 p.m. and from 3:30 to 8:15 p.m., and on Saturday 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the University of Regensburg, the Instituto Cervantes and the Munich Filmmuseum, and will also be broadcast via streaming via Zoom. The opening conference will be given by Professor of Romance Literature and Professor Emeritus at the University of Saarland Hans-Jörg Neuschäfer. His presentation is entitled “Between Quevedo and Freud. The role of dreams in Welcome, Mister Marshall!”.
Among the participating speakers are researchers and experts from different Spanish and international universities: Juan Miguel Company (University of Valencia), who will speak on "The perverse ghosts of Francoism in Berlanga"; Darío Villanueva, who will talk about the link between Berlanga's work and the grotesque; Julia Brühne (University of Bremen), who will reflect on “Laughter, ambivalence and resistance in Calabuch and The Executioner”; José Luis Castro de Paz, who will work on the theme “Berlanga and Fernán Gómez: parallel trajectories from sainete to grotesque”; or Carmen Ciller (Carlos III University of Madrid), who will present the results of her study on “The representation of women in the National Trilogy: a progressive perspective is projected towards a democratic horizon”; among others. The closing conference, entitled "Funeral Pomps", is given by Santos Zunzunegui.
The program of conferences and round tables is completed by the presentation of the translation and adaptation into German of the book Furia Española. Life, work, opinions and miracles of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010), filmmaker, coordinated by Santos Zunzunegui, José Luis Castro de Paz, Imanol Zumalde and Ralf Junkerjürgen, and edited by Schüren Verlag; and the book Interviews with Luis García Berlanga and his collaborators, by Matthias Schilhab and Ralf Junkerjürgen. The final round table, mainly made up of professionals who collaborated with Berlanga and journalists who dealt with him in life, will deal with the work with the teacher. Among them Sol Carnicero or José Luis G. Berlanga himself.
Those interested in attending the seminar electronically may do so through this link, entering the code 974865.
The event has been organized by Filmoteca Española, Acción Cultural Española and the Center for Hispanic Studies of the University of Regensburg, in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute of Munich, CinEs Cultural, Münchner Filmmuseum and Arbeitskreis Film Regensburg E.V.
