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 . . . .
. W . . .
. .Th . |
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 |
. T . Th . |
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 |
. T . Th . |
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.