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GER 101A Beginning German I

Thomas Wild

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12:00 -1:00 pm

OLINLC 206

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. Class size: 18

91249

GER 101B Beginning German I

Franz Kempf

. T W Th F

8:50 -9:50 am

OLINLC 120

FLLC

See above. Class size: 18

91250

GER 303 Grimms Marchen

Franz Kempf

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11:50 -1:10 pm

OLINLC 120

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. Taught in German. Class size: 15

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GER 308 German through Film

Stephanie Kufner

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4:40 -6:00 pm

OLINLC 120

FLLC

This interdisciplinary course explores 100 years of German history, language and culture through the lens of contemporary German film. Films, documentaries, essays, poetry, and manifestos, will provide us with a road map through the century between World War I and Germany after reunification. Beginning with the Kinodebatte (1909-1929) of writers, theater directors, and critics in the early twentieth century on the poetics of film, we will discuss the role and responsibility of new media, examining literary, artistic, and cinematic representations of cultural, social and political issues in Germany between 1909 and 2012 - from the time of silent movies to the digital age. Directors and writers include: Fassbinder, Wenders, Fatih Akin, Elmar Fischer, Hofmannsthal, Dblin, Tucholsky. and Enzensberger. For students who have completed German 202 or the equivalent. Review and expansion of German grammar. Taught in German. Class size: 15

91248

GER 467 Correspondences: Figures of Writing

Thomas Wild

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3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 307

FLLC

One alone is always wrong; but with two involved, the truth begins, reads an aphorism by Friedrich Nietzsche. His criticism of the isolated genius thinker also proposes an alternative mode of thinking and writing: creative collaboration. The seminar will explore several instances of such creative collaborations, e.g. Hannah Arendt and Hilde Domin, Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin, Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. These intellectual relationships are also documented in letter exchanges, so that our seminar will unfold the word correspondence in a literal and in a figurative way. In this sense, Correspondence exceeds the limits of a single literary text or a letter; its dynamics translates into poems, novels, essays, or theoretical writings. As a consequence, fundamental categories such as authorship, work, intertextuality, or addressing are called into question. Our seminar will continuously reflect upon those terms based on canonical writings of modern literary criticism, including Benjamin, and (to be read in English) Genette, Barthes, Foucault, Lvinas. The course intends to incorporate materials of the Hannah Arendt Library special collection at Bard College in order to explore some of the unknown intellectual relationships between the pivotal political thinker and German as well as American writers. Taught in German. Class size: 12