Egentlig kan man ikke oversætte Gertrude Steins skuespil…

Læs Laura Luise Schultz‘ artikel i Standart, hvor hun skriver om at oversætte Stein.

You can’t just knock on the door of 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris and expect to get in…

One must have an introduction.

Karen Chernick in Artsy on

Getting Inside the Paris Apartment Where Gertrude Stein Fêted Matisse and Picasso

Testimony against Gertrude Stein

on UBUWEB

originally published by Servire Press, February 19335

by

Georges Braque
Eugene Jolas
Maria Jolas
Henri Matisse
André Salmon
Tristan Tzara

“Miss Gertrude Stein’s memoirs, published last year under the title of Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, having brought about a certain amount of controversial comment, Transition has opened its pages to several of those she mentions who, like ourselves, find that the book often lacks accuracy. This fact and the regrettable possibility that many less informed readers might accept Miss Stein’s testimony about her contemporaries, make it seem wiser to straighten out those points with which we are familiar before the book has had time to assume the character of historic authenticity. To MM. Henri Matisse, Tristan Tzara, Georges Braque, André Salmon we are happy to give the opportunity to refute those parts of Miss Stein’s book which they consider require it.

These documents invalidate the claim of the Toklas-Stein memorial that Miss Stein in any way concerned with the shaping of the epoch she attempts to describe. There is a unanimity of opinion that she had no understanding of what really was happening around her, that the mutation of ideas beneath the surface of the more obvious contacts and clashes of personalities during that period escaped her entirely. Her participation in the genesis and development of such movements as Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Transition etc. was never ideologically intimate and as M. Matisse states, she has presented the epoch “without taste and without relation to reality.”

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in its hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations, may very well become one day the symbol of the decadence that hovers over contemporary literature.”

EUGENE JOLAS.

As announced at the Perdu Amsterdam Symposium in April the radio opera What Happened / Plays with a libretto by Adam Frank adapted from Gertrude Stein’s first play What Happened and excerpts from her lecture Plays and with music composed by Samuel Vriezen had its world premiere in Paris on June 26th 2019. The performance was by Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman and Ensemble Dedalus. A full recording of the performance is now out on Soundcloud for all of us to enjoy!

As exact as a resemblance…

Inspired by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot‘s choreography, Tim Elfring – intern for the symposium arranged recently by the Gertrude Stein European Network in Amsterdam, and a Masters student in Literature Today at the Universiteit Utrecht – has composed a drums accompaniment to Stein’s recording of “If Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso.” This is a whole new way of researching and thinking about modernist prosody.

Check out his fantastic performance via video.

 

Hør Steins skuespil i Astrid Noacks Atelier 13. juni

Som en del af 30-dages performance-arrangementet Stedet er levende kurateret af Sara Hamming og Lukas Racky vil Laura Luise Schultz, Tania Ørum, Oscar Sjøgren og Solveig Daugaard præsentere oplæsning af et udvalg af Gertrude Steins skuespil, fra den nyligt udkomne danske oversættelse, Stykker til at spille. Desuden vil Laura Luise Schultz introducere til Steins teateræstetik

Det er torsdag d. 13. juni fra kl. 20 i Astrid Noacks Atelier, Rådmandsgade 34, det er gratis og alle er velkomne!

Håber vi ses.

Se hele programmet på Astrid Noacks Ateliers hjemmeside

The continuous reading of The Making of Americans

Is it now for eight years that we in the Danish Gertrude Stein Society have been reading Stein’s infamous The Making of Americans? Something like it. We have done it in different ways. On April 11th we met five people around a table – Morten Søndergaard visiting from Italy, Adam Zdrodowski from Poland, along with Solveig Daugaard, Kamilla Löfström and Martin Glaz Serup from around the corner in Copenhagen – and simply started to read aloud. We started on the Martha Hersland-chapter, page 268 in the edition most of us use, and read and talked about a few happy pages. It’s the chapter that starts with I am writing for myself and strangers…

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.

Hilsen fra Paris

To af Steinselskabets medlemmer – Kamilla Löfström og Hanne Kvist – er lige nu i Paris, og har sendt hilsnen her hjem – med Gertrude i baggrunden på Père Lachaise-kirkegården.

Beyond the sentence – Gertrude Stein as Open Text

A photo report from a splendid symposium held by the Gertrude Stein European Network at Perdu poetry club in Amsterdam, Saturday April 6th 2019!

Perdu poetry club, Amsterdam

Beyond the Sentence – Stein as Open Text

Opening lecture by Solveig Daugaard

Scandinavian fraction in Amsterdam

Gertrude Stein translation panel with Moosje Goosen, Anneke Brassinga,and Tania Ørum, moderated by Martin Glaz Seruppanel

Adam Frank in conversation with Mia You, Laura Luise Schultz and Tania Ørum about Radio Free Stein

Bilingual reading, English/Dutch: Anneke Brassinga and Lyn Hejinian reading “What Happened”

Bilingual reading, English/Danish: Tania Ørum and Lene Asp about to read “Ladies Voices”

Mia You, Sol Léon and Adam Frank in conversation about staging Stein in general and Léon’s dance performance Shutters shut in particular

Keynote lecture by Lyn Hejinian

A warm thank you to Mia You and the rest of the Amsterdam organizers!

Kom til reception og boglancering!

Fredag d. 12. april kl. 17-20 i Møllegades Boghandel, Møllegade 8A.

Forlaget Arena og Gertrude Stein Selskabet fejrer udgivelsen af

Gertrude Stein: Stykker til at spille og Laura Luise Schultz: Gertrude Steins skuespil

Vi er stolte af at præsentere dette tosprogede udvalg af Gertrude Steins skuespil samt Laura Luise Schultz’ lille companion volume med introduktion til Gertrude Steins skuespil og deres betydning for scenekunsten.

Stykkerne er oversat af Lene Asp Frederiksen, Solveig Daugaard, Maja Elverkilde, Laura Luise Schultz, Oskar Sjøgren, Gritt Uldall-Jessen og Tania Ørum.

Der vil være oplæsning ved oversætterne og video med udvalgte opsætninger, samt vin og snacks.

Og naturligvis mulighed for at købe bøgerne til en venlig pris i dagens anledning.

Alle er velkomne!