German
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Beginning German Intensive |
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Professor:
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Jana Schmidt |
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Course
Number: |
GER 106 |
CRN Number: |
90096 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
8 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Tue Wed
Thurs
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Olin
Languages Center 120 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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As the foundation of a language-acquisition sequence enabling
students to study German literature in the original language within a year,
this course consists of an intensive semester at Bard (8 credits) and an
intersession program at Bard College Berlin in January 2025 (4 credits).
Students will take eight class hours per week during their semester at Bard,
plus a weekly conversation meeting with the German language tutor. Students
are actively involved in class from day one. As the course progresses,
students move from learning the language for everyday communication to
reading and discussing classical and modern texts (Goethe, Heine, Kafka,
Brecht, Rilke, Jandl, Tawada, etc.) as well as music and film. In Berlin,
students will combine their language studies with an exploration of the
city’s history, architecture, and vibrant cultural life. Students interested
in this class must consult with Prof. Schmidt before online registration.
(Need-based financial aid for the Berlin section of the course is available;
please discuss further details with the instructor.) |
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German Theater between Moral Institution
and Post Pandemic Performances |
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Professor:
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Stephanie Kufner
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Course
Number: |
GER 325 |
CRN Number: |
90097 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin Languages Center 118 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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This course examines German theater with a focus on the
20th and 21st century from Expressionism to contemporary, post-dramatic forms
of performances to a post-pandemic world of innovative theater productions.
After an overview of pivotal moments in the history and poetics of German
theater (Lessing, Schiller, Hauptmann), students will engage in analyzing
specific developments in modern and contemporary theater. Among others, we
will explore the new aesthetics of expressionist theater, Bertolt Brecht’s
development of the Epic Theater before and during World War II, post-war
efforts to stage Vergangenheitsbewältigung (“coming to terms with the past”
of the Third Reich and the Holocaust), and the voicing of contemporary and
multicultural experiences in re-unified, pre- and post-pandemic Germany -
particularly the latter calling into question the traditional role of the
institution theater in Germany today. Readings include full texts or excerpts
from: Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening (1895/1906); Bertolt Brecht, Mother
Courage and Her Children (1939); Wolfgang Borchert, The Man Outside (1947);
Peter Weiss, The Investigation (1965); Nurkan Erpulat/Jens Hillje, Verrücktes
Blut (2010/2015); Oliver Frljić, Alles unter Kontrolle (2021); Sibylle
Berg, Und sicher ist mir die Welt entschwunden (2021). (A Reader with a collection
of traditional as well as contemporary poetics of theater and theater reviews
will be provided). Viewing and analysis of videotaped productions on 4 M of
the semester will be a mandatory part of the class. Conducted in German. |
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Correspondences: Figures of Writing |
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Professor:
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Thomas Wild |
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Course
Number: |
GER 467 |
CRN Number: |
90099 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Olin 310 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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”Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit Zweien beginnt die
Wahrheit,” 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., Friedrich Nietzsche and Lou Andreas
Salome, Hannah Arendt and Hilde Domin, Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, Ilse
Aichinger and Helga Aichinger-Michie, Else Lasker-Schüler and Franc Marc,
Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Djuna Barnes, Herta Müller and Oskar Pastior. 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 at stake. Our
seminar will reflect upon those terms based on theoretical writings of
critical thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Lévinas, and Édouard
Glissant. |
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Cross-listed Courses:
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Painters of Modern Life: European
Modernism 1850-1900 |
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Professor:
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Laurie Dahlberg
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Course
Number: |
ARTH 258 |
CRN Number: |
90068 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of Art |
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Crosslists: |
French Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; German Studies |
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Dignity and the Human Rights Tradition |
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Professor:
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Roger Berkowitz
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Course
Number: |
HR 235 |
CRN Number: |
90343 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning, Being, Value |
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Crosslists: |
German Studies; Philosophy; Politics |
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The Art of Small Forms |
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Professor:
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Thomas Wild |
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Course
Number: |
LIT 165 |
CRN Number: |
90585 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Albee 106 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
German Studies |
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What Does a Woman Want? Psychoanalysis,
Literature, Female Desire |
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Professor:
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Jana Schmidt |
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Course
Number: |
LIT 286 |
CRN Number: |
90285 |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 3:30 PM
- 4:50 PM Olin 305 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
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Crosslists: |
German Studies |
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The Novels of W. G. Sebald:
Disorientations of History and Memory |
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Professor:
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Daniel Mendelsohn
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Course
Number: |
LIT 303 |
CRN Number: |
90301 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 12:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 303 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
German Studies |
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Lit/Lang Music: Romantic |
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Professor:
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Christopher Gibbs
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Course
Number: |
MUS 265 |
CRN Number: |
90015 |
Class cap: |
20 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Blum Music Center N217 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of Art |
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Crosslists: |
German Studies |
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Philosophy and Literature |
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Professor:
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Ruth Zisman |
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Course
Number: |
PHIL 238 |
CRN Number: |
90359 |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Olin 307 |
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Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning, Being, Value |
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Crosslists: |
German Studies |
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Hegel: A Logic for the Topsy-Turvy World |
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Professor:
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Archie Magno |
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Course
Number: |
PHIL 346 |
CRN Number: |
90360 |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 3:10 PM
- 5:30 PM Olin 301 |
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Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning, Being, Value |
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Crosslists: |
German Studies |
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