Gerdi Sobek-Beutter papers relating to Hommage à Gertrude Stein
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1244
Scope and Contents
Papers documenting planning, events, and critical response for student performances in each phase of Hommage à Gertrude Stein, 1990-1996, including notes, correspondence, scripts, publicity, photographs, drawings, audio and audiovisual recordings, and reviews; similar papers for related conferences, lectures, and performances by guest artists; proposals and reports for the project; and notes by Sobek-Beutter on collection content.
The papers provide evidence of teaching, performance, and criticism of writings by Gertrude Stein; translation of Stein’s writings into German; modernist literature and art in Stuttgart; and French and American modernist literature and art in Germany.
The papers provide evidence of teaching, performance, and criticism of writings by Gertrude Stein; translation of Stein’s writings into German; modernist literature and art in Stuttgart; and French and American modernist literature and art in Germany.
Dates
- 1990 - 1997
Creator
Language of Materials
In German.
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Gerdi Sobek-Beutter, 1997.
Arrangement
Organized into six series: I. Eine Amerikanerin in Paris I (Mappe I), circa 1990. II. Eine Amerikanerin in Paris II (Mappe II), circa 1991. III. Die Avantgarde (Mappe III), circa 1992-1993. IV. Identität (Mappe IV), circa 1994. V. I. M. P. U. L. S. E.: Wortkunst, Musik, Bildkunst (Mappe V), circa 1990-1996. VI. Other Papers, 1993-1997.
Extent
4.83 linear feet Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Gerdi Sobek-Beutter
Gerdi Sobek-Beutter was a professor of speech at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, in Stuttgart, Germany, in the 1990s. She created and directed Hommage à Gertrude Stein, 1990-1996, a teaching project introducing students at the Staatliche Hochschule to writings of Gertrude Stein and modernism in early 20th-century Paris and Stuttgart.
Hommage à Gertrude Stein was in three parts, each consisting of public performances by students and guest artists in Stuttgart and other locations in Germany: “Eine Amerikanerin in Paris,” 1990-1992; “Die Avantgarde,” 1993-1994; and “Identität,” 1994-1996. A final phase, “Impulse: Wortkunst, Musik, Bildkunst,” 1995, summarized the project. Scholars and artists who collaborated with Sobek-Beutter included Robert Bartlett Haas, professor of literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, who organized a series of conferences on Stein in Bilignin and Culoz, France, 1986-1990; Klaus Fessmann, musician and professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst; and Reinhard Döhl, author and professor at the Universität Stuttgart.
Sobek-Beutter created this collection of papers to document the project, with the intention of donating the collection to the Yale Collection of American Literature.
Hommage à Gertrude Stein was in three parts, each consisting of public performances by students and guest artists in Stuttgart and other locations in Germany: “Eine Amerikanerin in Paris,” 1990-1992; “Die Avantgarde,” 1993-1994; and “Identität,” 1994-1996. A final phase, “Impulse: Wortkunst, Musik, Bildkunst,” 1995, summarized the project. Scholars and artists who collaborated with Sobek-Beutter included Robert Bartlett Haas, professor of literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, who organized a series of conferences on Stein in Bilignin and Culoz, France, 1986-1990; Klaus Fessmann, musician and professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst; and Reinhard Döhl, author and professor at the Universität Stuttgart.
Sobek-Beutter created this collection of papers to document the project, with the intention of donating the collection to the Yale Collection of American Literature.
Processing Information
Former call number: Uncat ZA MS 536
- American literature -- 20th century -- Translations into German
- American literature -- 20th century
- Audiocassettes
- Audiovisual materials
- Authors, American -- 20th Century
- College teachers
- College teachers -- Germany -- Stuttgart
- Drawings (visual works)
- Döhl, Reinhard, 1934-
- Fessmann, Klaus, 1951-
- German literature -- 20th Century
- Haas, Robert Bartlett
- Modernism (Art) -- France -- Paris
- Modernism (Art) -- Germany -- Stuttgart
- Modernism (Art) -- United States
- Modernism (Literature) -- France -- Paris
- Modernism (Literature) -- Germany -- Stuttgart
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Photographs
- Sobek-Beutter, Gerdi
- Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart
- Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart -- Students
- Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart -- Faculty
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Translations into German
- Stuttgart (Germany) -- Intellectual life -- 20th Century
- Videocassettes
- Title
- Guide to the Gerdi Sobek-Beutter papers relating to Hommage à Gertrude Stein
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Karen Spicher
- Date
- October 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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