|
19166 |
GER 102 A Beginning German II |
Franz Kempf |
M T W Th . |
12:00 -1:00 pm |
OLINLC
210 |
FLLC |
The
continuation of GER 101, this course lays a foundation for proficiency in oral
and written communication. Class time is devoted to interactive tasks that
develop communicative competence. The emphasis falls on oral production,
strategies for understanding oral and written discourse, vocabulary
acquisition, and on expressing your ideas in writing. Readings and audiovisual
materials convey what life is like in the German-speaking countries today.
|
19375 |
GER 102
B Beginning German II |
Stephanie Kufner |
M T W Th . |
12:00 -1:00 pm |
OLINLC
208 |
FLLC |
See
above.
|
19164 |
GER 320 Modern German Prose |
Franz Kempf |
M . W . . |
3:00
pm -4:20 pm |
OLINLC
118 |
FLLC |
A
survey of great works of mainly twentieth-century prose, including Novellen,
Erzählungen, parables and other short forms. Detailed literary analysis will be
combined with the discussion of the social, political and historical contexts
of each work and interspersed with frequent creative writing assigments.
Readings to include E.T.A. Hoffmann, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Thomas Mann,
Robert Walser, Heinrich von Kleist, Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann, Max
Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ilse Aichinger, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard,
Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada and others. Conducted in German.
|
19178 |
GER 348 Secularisation and Its Discontents: Goethe,
Schiller, Heine |
Franz Kempf |
. T . Th . |
2:30
pm -3:50 pm |
OLINLC
118 |
|
Against
the backdrop of the intellectual climate of the time between the
Storm-and-Stress movement of the 1760s and the radical trends leading up to the
revolution of 1848, we will accompany Germany’s greatest writers on their
journey toward modernity and explore with them the tensions and contradictions
of the „Age of Secularisation“ as manifested in their self-conscious poetry,
prose, and plays. Conducted in English.
|
19168 |
GER 432 Anarchy as Art: Karl Valentin’s “Surreal
Comedy” |
Matthias Goeritz |
. T . Th . |
4:00
pm -5:20 pm |
OLINLC
120 |
FLLC |
Born
in 1882, Karl Valentin was a comedian who had a lasting influence on Weimar
culture. Bertolt Brecht compared him to Charlie Chaplin and attributed to
Valentin the germ of his epic theater. Suffused with a dark sense of humor, set
in motion by verbal misunderstandings and sustained by intricate puns, his
sketches deride the complacency, conformism, and prejudice of Everyman and,
through him, of the epoch. Valentin’s art falls between the laughter of Dada and the grimace of Expressionism. We will
analyze Valentin’s films and texts and compare them with Dadaist and
Expressionist poets. Conducted in German.