Fourth Graham Nattrass Lecture and GSLG AGM – 20 September 2022

Under the auspices of the German Studies Library Group and in association with the British Library, a Lecture in memory of Graham Nattrass (1940–2012) will be delivered on Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at the British Library, St Pancras, London.  The event is held in the Foyle Suite; refreshments will be served.

  16.00:  GSLG AGM in the Foyle Suite, Floor One, The British Library—GSLG members to meet no later than 16.00 in the Foyle Suite

  17.00:  The British Library and British Museum Singers conducted by Peter Hellyer will perform German music, including pieces by Bach, Brahms, and Mendelssohn, in the main entrance hall of the British Library

  17.30:  Refreshments prior to the Lecture will be served in the Foyle Suite

  18.00:  Lecture: Professor Henrike Lähnemann, University of Oxford—‘Wittenberg 1522: Print Culture and Soundscape of the German Reformation’, in the Foyle Suite

Graham Nattrass was Chair of the German Studies Library Group from 2003 till 2007, and a founding member of the Group.  He enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the British Library, becoming Head of Germanic Collections in 1996 and retiring from the Library in 2005, as its Head of West European Collections, having worked at the British Library (and its antecedents) since 1971.  He also enjoyed classical music and attending performances by the British Library and British Museum Singers.

Henrike Lähnemann has been Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oxford since 2015, and is also Professorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.  Her research interests include medieval manuscripts, the relationship of text and images, and how vernacular and Latin literature are connected, currently mainly in late medieval Northern German convents. Henrike grew up in three medieval German towns which have shaped her interest in medieval literature and religion: Münster, Lüneburg, and Nürnberg.

There is no charge to attend the Lecture and listen to the performance—which are open to all—but places are limited.

If you intend to come, please email Dorothea Miehe, Chair of the German Studies Library Group—dorothea.miehe@bl.uk.