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