The Rescheduled Antigone / Die verschobene Antigone (1978), seminar-screening
A screening of The Rescheduled Antigone / Die verschobene Antigone (dir. Volker Schlöndorff and Heinrich Böll, episode from portmanteau film Germany in Autumn / Deutschland im Herbst, West Germany 1978). Introduced by Arshya Bommaraju and Carrie Thomas, with post-screening discussion.

A group of TV executives debate whether they should broadcast a television version of Sophocles’ Antigone commissioned for a series called ‘Youth meets the Ancient Classics’. Should it be aired, or is it an ‘incitement to violence’ and ought to be shelved in the interest of public safety? Sophocles’ play meets television self-censorship in the so-called ‘German Autumn’ of 1977, when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).
Date: 17 February 2025, 17:00
Venue: Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Speakers: Arshya Bommaraju, Carrie Thomas
Organising department: Faculty of Classics
Organiser: Dr Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk
Host: APGRD (University of Oxford)
Part of: Greek tragedy between stage and screen
Booking required?: Not required
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Claire Kenward