Dr Sarah Pogoda

Senior Lecturer in German Studies

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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.

 

  1. Published

    Game developers' approaches to comunicating climate change

    Walton, S. P., Williams, C., Pogoda, S., Reynolds, D., Gerson, S. A., Foltz, A. & Begum, T., 20 Jun 2019, In: Frontiers in Communication. 4, 14 p., 28.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Deutschland in den Sand setzen: The transformative metaphorology of Searching for Germany '99

    Pogoda, S., 28 Jun 2017, Art of Wagnis: Christoph Schlingensief’s Crossing of Wagner and Africa. Lehmann, F., Siegert, N. & Vierke, U. (eds.). Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, p. 77-88

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  3. Published

    Golchi+

    Pogoda, S., Samina Ali, Lisa Hudson, Lindsey Colbourne & Wanda Zyborska, 9 Nov 2021

    Research output: Non-textual formDigital or Visual Products

  4. Published

    Germany is not Texas. Finding reunified Germany in the Rural: Christoph Schlingensief’s The German Chain Saw Massacre

    Pogoda, S., 4 May 2020, Cine-Excess, 4.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  5. Accepted/In press

    Re-inventing live events, re-inventing communities

    Pogoda, S. & Colbourne, L., 15 Jun 2023, (Accepted/In press) Bridging distance in the Creative Industries.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

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    Der Zuschauer als Schaffender. Christoph Schlingensiefs filmische Sehschule

    Pogoda, S., 15 Nov 2021, Arbeit am Bild: Christoph Schlingensief und die Tradition: Schlingensief and Tradition. Scheinpflug, P. & Wortmann, T. (eds.). Fink Verlag, p. 43-66

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  7. Published

    Wer über Schlingensief redet, muss selbst von ihm gepackt sein! Christoph Schlingensief und die künstlerische Forschung

    Pogoda, S., 1 Aug 2020, Christoph Schlingensief: Resonanzen. Höving, V., Wortmann, T. & Holweck, K. (eds.). Munich: text+kritik, p. 154-171

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  8. Published

    The Redundancy: Ein Produktionsbericht

    Pogoda, S., Jan 2021, Klassengesellschaft reloaded und das Ende der menschlichen Gattung.: Fragen an Heiner Müller. Strehlow, F. & Ette, W. (eds.). Theater der Zeit, p. 139-169 30 p. (Recherchen; no. 154).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  9. Published

    Deutsch Walisische Freundschaft: Neue Walisische Kunst

    Pogoda, S., 15 Apr 2020

    Research output: Non-textual formWeb publication/site

  10. Published

    Demiurgen in der Krise: Architektenfiguren in der Literatur nach 1945

    Pogoda, S., 1 Sept 2013, Berlin: Ripperger & Kremers . 352 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  11. Published

    Re-Inventing the Live Event - Blog

    Pogoda, S., 30 Jun 2022

    Research output: Non-textual formWeb publication/site

  12. Published

    Sentencing and Disembowelment of Surrealism by NWK

    Pogoda, S., 23 Aug 2020

    Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

  13. Published

    Rezension: Lore Knapp, Formen des Kunstreligiösen. Peter Handke— Christoph Schlingensief

    Pogoda, S., 16 Dec 2021, In: Forum Modernes Theater. 32, 2, p. 308-310

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  14. Published

    Hirbarhad II: Yn Oesedd Oes

    Pogoda, S., 16 Apr 2022

    Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

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    Zum Ineinander von Sprache und Erfahrung. Fluxus, Dada und Zufall im deutsch-walisischen Blog Verifiktion

    Pogoda, S., 29 Dec 2022, Wege der Germanistik in Transkultureller Perspektive: Akten des XIV. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Palermo 2021. Bd.9. Auteri, L. (ed.). Peter Lang, p. 383-401 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  16. Published

    Rezension: Rosmarie Zeller, “Letztenendes bleibt doch nur die Kunst.” Studien zu Christoph Geisers Texten.

    Pogoda, S., Oct 2021, In: Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch (A German Studies Yearbook).. 20

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  17. Published

    Der lustwandelnde Tantalos: Christoph Geisers texterotisches Dürsten

    Pogoda, S., 2009, In: Mauerschau. 2, 2, p. 45-59 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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  19. Published

    Trin Toriadau

    Pogoda, S., 2 Jun 2022

    Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

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    Einleitung zu "Strategien der Avantgarde. Kontinuitäten seit 1910"

    Pogoda, S., 27 Dec 2022, Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive: Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) (Bd. 9). Peter Lang, p. 303-307 4 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingForeword/postscript

  21. Published

    Roland Innerhofer: Architektur aus Sprache. Korrespondenzen zwischen Literatur und Baukunst 1890-1930

    Pogoda, S., 1 May 2023, In: Musil-Forum. Studien zur Literatur der klassischen Moderne. 37, p. 391-395

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  22. Accepted/In press

    Vor- und Nachspiel: Ästhetiken gegen den Faschismus. Ein Vergleich zwischen dem Hässlichen Christoph Schlingensiefs und dem Zentrum für Politische Schönheit

    Pogoda, S., 18 Jun 2023, (Accepted/In press) Kunstszene gegen rechte Szene: Cultural Responses to the Far-Right in Contemporary Germany. Brill Academic Publishers

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  23. Published

    Branding the new Germany: The Brandenburg Gate and a new kind of German historical Amnesia

    Pogoda, S. & Traxler, R., Nov 2017, Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin. Bauer, K. & Hosek, J. (eds.). Berghahn Books

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  24. The Bellotograph Project

    Pogoda, S., 2015

    Research output: Non-textual formWeb publication/site

  25. Published

    Peter de Mendelssohn: Intellektueller zwischen den Stühlen und vergessener Romanautor

    Pogoda, S., 2011, Verfolgt und umstritten! : Remigrierte Künstler im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Grisko, M. & Wenzel, H. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, p. 213-222 9 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  26. Published

    Erzählerische Kontingenzverwaltung bei Gregor Hens

    Pogoda, S., 2008, Literatur der Jahrtausendwende: Themen, Schreibverfahren und Buchmarkt um 2000. Zemanek, E. & Krones, S. (eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, p. 225-234 9 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  27. Published

    Das Mehr der Sprache ver-stehen. Der experimentelle Hypertext Verifiktion.

    Pogoda, S., 13 Jul 2023, In: Polyphonie Mehrsprachigkeit_Kreativität_Schreiben.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Mappening I - Tomen Gachu: Map o Gymru

    Pogoda, S., 9 Jun 2022

    Research output: Non-textual formArtefact

  29. Published

    Adornos Nos. Grazing Graz. 18 Happenings in 6 Parts

    Pogoda, S., 2 Jun 2023

    Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

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    Von Baumeistern, Anti-Architekten und Anarchitektur

    Pogoda, S., 2014, Text-Architekturen: Die Baukunst der Literatur. Krause, R. & Zemanek, E. (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 223-236 14 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  31. Germany Surrenders

    Pogoda, S., 11 May 2015

    Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

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    Künstlerische Avantgardeforschung und Institutionskritik in Christoph Schlingensiefs Müllfestspiele (1996), Seven X (1999) und Erster Attaistischer Kongress (2002)

    Pogoda, S., 25 Mar 2019, Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde. Knapp, L., Lindholm, S. & Pogoda, S. (eds.). Fink Verlag

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  33. Published

    The Redundancy: A site specific, multimedia, non-participatory performance

    Pogoda, S., 2 Jun 2019

    Research output: Non-textual formPerformance

  34. Published

    Towards Radical Intimacy with The More-than-Human in Co-Somatic Performance

    Pogoda, S., 1 Oct 2023, In: TRANSPOSITIONES. Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre und intermediale Kulturforschung. 2, 2, p. 75-90

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  35. Published

    Christoph Schlingensiefs Grenzüberschreitungen. Die Wiener Aktion Bitte liebt Österreich. Erste österreichische Koalitionswoche und Elfriede Jelineks Kasperlestück Ich liebe Österreich

    Knapp, L. & Pogoda, S., 2015, In: Germanistische Mitteilungen. 41, 1, p. 75-89

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review