Dr Sarah Pogoda
Senior Lecturer in German Studies
Affiliations
Links
- https://bellotograph.jimdo.com/
This is a website which documents one of my past projects at Sheffield. It included a Happening, a Panel debate with artists and academics and a workshop with artists and the public. The project dealt with commemoration practices for World War II in both, Germany and the UK. - https://lighthousesintofuturity.jimdofree.com/
This website documents my artistic research project on German writer and filmmaker Alexander Kluge. An exhibition (August 2018) in Pontio, Bangor introduced his work to a Welsh audience for the first time.
Contact info
Originally from the Bergische Land (Nordrhein-Westfalen), I studied German literature, history and communication at the Freie Universität Berlin. As part of my undergraduate programme I went on an Erasmus exchange to the University of Vienna. After my Magister Artium I completed a doctorate in German literature. Having worked as a tutor for GfL (German as a Foreign Language) in the private sector in Berlin, I went to the University of Sheffield as DAAD-Lektorin in 2012. In autumn 2016 I came to Bangor University.
Teaching
At the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin I offered several modules on Political Studies and German Literature of the 20th century. As a DAAD-Lektor at the University of Sheffield (2012-2016) I taught modules on contemporary German culture and media, post-wall German art, film and performance, as well as modules on contemporary German literature. Alongside this research led teaching, I have been teaching German language at all levels (ab initio to near native competence) since 2011. At Bangor University I continue teaching German language at all levels, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in my field of research expertise, this includes e.g. the modules "Culture in Context" (LXE 1600); "The German Film" (LXG 2008), "Performing Germany" (LXG 3036), "German Avant-Garde" (LXM 4037) and "Critical Theory" (LXM 4001).
In my teaching, I prefer to integrate artistic practices, such as Happenings and Creative Writing exercises. I do not only understand this kind of pracice based learning as best practice in teaching, but first and foremost, I want to show my students that the revolution starts with ourselves and inside ourselves. It is this revolution of the self which I consider as the key experience of life, and of university life in particular. I was nominated for the Special Recognition Award.
Research
My current research interests are 20th and 21st century Avant Garde, with a focus on performance. Here, my core research considers the German film maker, theatre director and actionist artist Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010). In this regard I am also particularly interested in the political potential of art and how contemporary artist interfere in the public sphere.
I am also engaged in diversifying the critical thinking methods in academia by engageing with artistic research methods. In this context I co-founded the Avant Garde experimental art collective NWK, kindly supported by Deutsch-Walisische Freundschaft.
One further creative writing projects is a performative writing exercise in which both Welsh and German are explored in their shared knowledge about Fluxus art. For this purpose, I invented a new literary genre called "Verifiction". This critical method is informed by Avant Garde strategies and has shown suitable for uncovering hidden knowledge in language.
Further research interests lie in the interrelations of literature and architecture and, more generally, in the history, culture, politics and literature of post-1945 Germany, including the former GDR. In my doctoral thesis I look at metaphors of building and dwelling in post-war and contemporary German literature and culture. In addition I am interested in contemporary German literature in general.
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27. Deutschen Germanistentag 2022
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
27 Sept 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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91st annual Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland conference
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
31 Aug 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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AGS - Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (External organisation)
Sarah Pogoda (Chair)
1 Sept 2020 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Alexander Kluge Lighthouses into Futurity
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
29 Aug 2018 → 12 Sept 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Arbeit am Bild Christoph Schlingensief und die Tradition
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
18 May 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Autopsy of the Avant Garde
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
16 Nov 2022Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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CLIMATE RESILIENCE PROJECTS
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
11 Oct 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Christoph Schlingensief and the Avant-Garde
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
26 Apr 2017Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
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Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde
Sarah Pogoda (Organiser)
1 Feb 2016 → 4 Feb 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde (Event)
Sarah Pogoda (Editorial board member)
1 Feb 2017 → 31 Dec 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Christoph Schlingensiefs Politik der Autonomie
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
5 May 2016Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
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Communicating the complexities of climate change
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
1 Dec 2017 → 31 Aug 2018Activity: Other
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Cracking the established Order
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
26 Jun 2019 → 27 Jun 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Dada. Or: How to treat your hobby horse with multi-lingual soap.
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
18 Jan 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Die Wunde Woyzeck. Müller lesen!
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
20 Jan 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Evangelische Hochschule Berlin
Sarah Pogoda (Visiting researcher)
31 Oct 2022 → 5 Nov 2022Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
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Feature in Aled Hughes Radio Programme
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
6 Feb 2024Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Fink Verlag (Publisher)
Sarah Pogoda (Editorial board member)
21 Jan 2017 → 30 Sept 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
Float some, Jettison other. Fluxus by Buoys, Beuys and NWK (Neue Walisische Kunst)
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
9 Sept 2022 → 19 Sept 2022Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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Fluxus Café
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
16 Nov 2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
From Avant Garde to Afon Gad – Artistic practices in Wales. Now and then. A conversation performance for Direct Art
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
22 Jun 2022Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
From Avant Garde to Afon gad
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
1 Jun 2022 → 31 Jul 2022Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
3 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference