Pückler and America

International Conference organized by the German Historical Institute,
Washington D.C. and the Stiftung Fürst Pückler Park Bad Muskau

Venue: Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau, Orangery, 02953 Bad Muskau

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

6:00 - 6:30 pm
Opening Reception, Kirchruine

6:30 pm
Welcome:
CORD PANNING (Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau)
CHRISTOF MAUCH (GHI, Washington)

Keynote Address:
ELIZABETH BARLOW ROGERS (Foundation for Landscape Studies)
The German Olmsted? Similarities and Differences in the Landscapes of Prince
Pückler-Muskau and the Father of American Landscape Architecture

FRIDAY, JUNE 23
PÜCKLER AS LANDSCAPE DESIGNER - TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES

Chair: Christof Mauch (GHI, Washington)

09:00 - 09:20 am
ULF JAKOB (Berlin)
Pückler's Biography

09:20 - 09:40 am
CORD PANNING (Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau)
Pückler's Park in Bad Muskau

10:00 - 10:20 am
ANDREAS PAHL (Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Museum Park und Schloss Branitz)
Pückler's Park in Branitz

10:20 - 10:40 am
MICHAEL ROHDE (Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg)
Pückler's Park in Babelsberg

11:00 - 11:15 am
Coffee break

11:15 - 11:55 am
ERIKA SCHMIDT (Universität Dresden)
Pückler's Significance for Landscape Architecture in Nineteenth and
Twentieth Century Germany

11:55 - 12:35 pm
PETER GOODCHILD (GARLAND The Garden and Heritage Trust, York)
The British Dimension: The Picturesque and the Gardenesque in Germany and
North America

12:45 - 03:30 pm
Lunch and Tour of Muskau Park, German side

Chair: Michael Lee (Rhode Island)

03:30 - 04:30 pm
GERT GRÖNING (Universität der Künste Berlin)
Pückler's Significance for Landscape Architecture in Nineteenth Century
America

04:40 - 05.00 pm
Coffee Break

05:00 - 05:40 pm
KEITH MORGAN (Boston University)
Muskau on the Charles: Prince Pückler's influence on Charles Eliot and
Metropolitan Planning in Boston

05:40 - 06:20 pm
DAVID HANEY (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
Bringing the Americanized Pückler back to Germany: The Pre-World War One
Writings of the Urban Designer Werner Hegemann and the Landscape Architect
Leberecht Migge

08:00 pm
Evening meal

SATURDAY, JUNE 24
Pückler's Cultural World and Literary Fame

Chair: Sonja Dümpelmann (Auburn University, GHI)

09:00 - 09.40 am
LINDA PARSHALL (Washington, D.C.)
Hirschfeld and Pückler - Literary Modeling of Nature

09:40 - 10:20 am
HUBERTUS FISCHER (Universität Hannover)
Pückler and German Travel Literature

10:45 - 11:00 am
Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:40 am
THOMAS HANSEN (Wellesley College)
The Prince in the Landscape: Edgar Allan Poe and Prince Pückler

11:40 - 12.20 pm
LANCE NECKAR (University of Minnesota)
Pückler von Muskau: ImagiNation as Weltanschauung

12:45 - 03:00 pm
Lunch and Tour of Muskau Park, Polish side

Chair: Keith Morgan (Boston University)

03:00 - 03:40 pm
DANIEL NADENICEK (Clemson University)
The Useful and the Beautiful, American Style

03:40 - 04:20 pm
MICHAEL LEE (Rhode Island)
Pückler-Muskau at Harvard University

04:45 - 05:00 pm
Coffee break

05:00 - 06:00 pm
Final Discussion
Chair: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Universität Hannover)

07:30 pm
Evening Meal and Music

SUNDAY, JUNE 25
Conference Tour

Tour of Branitz Park, Cottbus
ANREAS PAHL (Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Museum Park und Schloss Branitz)

Lunch in Branitz

Tour of Babelsberg, Potsdam
MICHAEL ROHDE (Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg)

Reception at Glienicke, Potsdam

Registration fee (incl. refreshments, conference dinner, excursion): 65
Euro.

Please register until June 9, 2006:
Ms. Kühnel, Stiftung Fürst Pückler Park Bad Muskau, Orangerie, 02953 Bad
Muskau, Tel.: 035771 52010, Fax: 035771 52014, E-mail:
pr.stiftungmuskau.de.