98436

GER 101   Beginning German I

Franz Kempf

M T W Th .

12:00 -1:00 pm

OLINLC 210

FLLC

 

98905

GER 101   Beginning German I

Stephanie Kufner

M T . . .

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12:00 -1:00 pm

12:00 -1:00 pm

12:00 -1:00 pm

OLINLC 120

OLINLC LAB

OLIN 305

FLLC

For students with little or no previous instruction in German. This course is designed to develop listening comprehension and speaking proficiency as well as reading and writing skills. Instruction will include grammar drills, review of readings, communication practice, guided composition, and language lab exercises. Readings furnish insights into many aspects of German civilization and culture, thus conveying to students what life is like in the German-speaking countries today. Indivisible, both GER 101 and 102 must be taken to earn credit. 

 

98497

GER / LIT 258 The Beheaded Angel:

 Postwar German Literature in Translation  

Peter Filkins

. T . Th.

10:30 -11:50 am

OLIN 308

FLLC

This course will examine developments in German literature following World War II. Topics to be considered will include the various ways that writers and film directors of the period dealt with the historical atrocities of the war itself, the issues attached to both the guilt and suffering of the Holocaust, the increased industrialization brought on by the German "economic miracle" of the 1950's, the separation of the two Germanies, and the forwarding of philosophical and aesthetic approaches to poetry and the novel in the contemporary work of West Germany, East Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the reunited Germany. Writers discussed will include Guenter Grass, Heinrich Boell, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Wolfgang Koeppen, Max Frisch, Thomas Bernhard, and Christa Wolf. In addition we will also look at films by Rainer Maria Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, and Stefan Ruzowitzky.  

 

98435

GER 303   Grimms Marchen

Franz Kempf

M . W . .

3:00 -4:20 pm

OLINLC 210

FLLC

Close reading of selected tales, with emphasis on language, plot, motif, image, and the relation to folklore. Critical examination and application of major approaches: Freudian, Jungian, Marxist, and feminist. First-year students should consult with the professor.  

 

98437

GER 317   German Poetry

Matthias Goeritz

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1:00 -2:20 pm

OLIN 302

FLLC

What happens when we write? What happens when we write in a foreign language? The persona of a poem takes us on a voyage of discovery through a wonderland of syntax, phonemes, metaphors, and musical patterns to arrive at ... And when this wonderland is inherently foreign? The rich modern tradition of twentieth-century German-language poetry from Rilke, Trakl, and Benn to Celan and the best young contemporary writers serves as a basis for the study of the poetic process. Both analytic and creative approaches are taken: participants write verse of their own in German (with the aid of in-class exercises), and translate poems both into and from German. The course is designed to develop students’ skills as readers and writers of poetry and continue their training in German. Guest readings by German poets. Conducted in German.   

 

98438

GER 423   Schauerliteratur: The German Gothic and Its Obsession with Artificial Life

Matthias Goeritz

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4:00 -5:20 pm

OLINLC 208

FLLC

While focusing on Gustav Meyrink’s 1915 novel The Golem, a story based on the Jewish legend about a rabbi making a living being out of clay and animating it with a Cabalistic spell, we will also look at “monsters” before and after Meyrink. Starting with Goethe’s hubristic creators (Prometheus, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Faust) we will move on to the Romantic doppelgänger (E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman, The Automaton, Achim von Arnim’s Isabella of Egypt, Adalbert von Chamisso’s Peter Schlemihl) and finish with Paul Wegener’s silent Golem films and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Embedding the German “Gothic” in its historical contexts will allow us to explore such diverse questions as Romanticism’s critique of the Enlightenment, theories of the sublime, or anti-Semitism and the rise of Fascism. Conducted in German.