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German
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German Literature
in Translation
M, W: 11:30 - 12:
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Silke
von der Emde, CH 133
Tel.:
x 5618
Office Hours:
Th.11:30-12:30, Fr. 9:30-10:30
e-mail:
vonderemde |
Syllabus
I. Week: January 23 - 27
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Monday: Introduction |
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Wednesday: Short Story: Heinrich Böll, "Stranger, Bear Word
to the Spartans We ...", "In Defense of Rubble Literature" (1952) |
II. Week: January 30 - February 3
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Monday: Poems: |
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Günther Eich, "Inventory" |
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Nelly Sachs, Franz Fühmann, "Report," "Reawakening" |
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Paul Celan, "Aspen Tree," "Sand From the Urns, "Death Fugue" |
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Wednesday: Essay: |
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Günter Grass, "Writing After Auschwitz" |
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Poems: I. Bachmann, "Autumn Maneuver," "Early Noon," "You Words" |
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H. M. Enzensberger, "man spricht deutsch," "the wolves defended against
the lambs" |
III. Week: February 6 - 10
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Monday: Novel: D. Ward, Introduction; Wolfgang Koeppen, Pigeons
on the Grass |
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Wednesday: Wolfgang Koeppen, Pigeons on the Grass |
IV. Week: February 13 - 17
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Monday: Wolfgang Koeppen, Pigeons on the Grass |
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Wednesday: Uwe Johnson, Speculations About Jakob |
V. Week: February 20 - 24
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Monday: Uwe Johnson, Speculations About Jakob |
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Wednesday: Uwe Johnson, Speculations About Jakob |
VI. Week: February 27 - March 3
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Monday: Christa Wolf, Patterns of a Childhood |
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Wednesday: Christa Wolf, Patterns of a Childhood |
VII. Week: March 6 - 10
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Monday: Christa Wolf, Patterns of a Childhood |
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Wednesday: Story: Bachmann, "Word by Word"; I. Morgner, "Gospel
of Valeska" |
March 13 - 24: Spring Vacation
VIII. Week: March 27 - 31
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Monday: Play: Heiner Müller, The Battle |
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Wednesday: Heiner Müller, The Battle |
IX. Week: April 3 - 7
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Monday: Heiner Müller, The Battle |
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Wednesday: Novel: Peter Schneider, The Wall Jumper |
X. Week: April 10 - 14
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Monday: Peter Schneider, The Wall Jumper |
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Wednesday: Essay: |
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Günter Grass, "Short Speech by a Rootless Cosmopolitan" |
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Peter Schneider, A German Comedy |
XI. Week: April 17 - 21
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Monday: Story: Christa Wolf, "What Remains" |
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Wednesday: Essay: Wolf Biermann, "Family Arguments" |
XII. Week: April 24 - 28
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Monday: Novel: Monika Maron, Silent Close No. 6 |
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Wednesday: Monika Maron, Silent Close No. 6 |
XIII. Week: May 1 - 5
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Monday: Monika Maron, Silent Close No. 6 |
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Wednesday: Discussion |
XIV. Week: May 8
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Monday: Review |
Texts:
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Wofgang Koeppen, Pigeons on the Grass |
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Uwe Johnson, Speculations About Jakob |
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Christa Wolf, Patterns of a Childhood |
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Heiner Müller, The Battle |
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Peter Schneider, The Wall Jumper |
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Monika Maron, Silent Close No. 6 |
Photocopies of short stories, essays, and poems, which will be distributed
in class.
Requirements:
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Active participation in class discussions and regular attendance of all
class meetings is mandatory in this class. If you cannot come to class
one day because of sickness or other serious problems, please let me know
in advance so that I can save handouts etc. for you. (You can easily reach
me via e-mail which I check regularly.) If you nevertheless miss more than
three times unexcused, your oral grade (= one third of your final grade)
will be automatically lowered by one grade. |
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Thorough preparation for class and the faithful and diligent completion
of all the reading assignments are absolutely crucial in this class. Often
you will get questions that are supposed to help you focus on important
parts of the (sometimes long) readings. It is very important that you are
able to answer and talk about all of these questions. Always take notes
and mark your own text when you do the reading. |
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Each student will give two short oral reports on topics of his or her choice
in class (about 15 minutes). One will be on the biography of an author,
the other one concerns a historical or theoretical topic. You will get
a list with suggestions for topics at the beginning of class. |
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You will write four essays. The essay grades constitute 33% of your final
grade. |
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Finally, we have a midterm and a final in this class. These exams mainly
test factual knowledge and will be qualitatively different from you interpretative
essays. |
Grading:
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Midterm and Final: 33% |
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Essays 33% |
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Oral Participation and oral report 33% |
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