GER 496

Spring 2011 All Classes

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Special Topics German Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Intensive study of restricted topics in German language, literature, and culture.

3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. May be repeated as topics vary to a maximum of 9 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Three years of college German or equivalent.

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GER 496 class schedule data for spring 2011
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10291	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11
43207	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	331 Gregory Hall	Kaplan, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: W.G. Sebald. Meets with CWL 461 and ENGL 455 Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
43208	Lecture-Discussion	O	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	G46 Foreign Languages Building		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/11-05/04/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: 496: What?s left? ?Wende?, German Unity and the GDR in literature since 1989 The end of the GDR and the subsequent sociopolitical change influenced the German literature of the past 20 years in a variety of ways. Female and male writers from East and West Germany such as Christa Wolf, Thomas Brussig, Ingo Schulze, Monika Maron, Thomas Rosenl�cher, G�nter Grass, Jens Sparschuh, Rolf Hochhuth felt the need to discuss the urgent conflicts of their time. Their prose, drama and essays deal with the shift of mindsets and the development of a collective memory of the dictatorship in the GDR and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. We will study basic texts, essential topics and genres from different generations of female and male writers. We will read the texts in their historical context (e.g. the discourse about the alleged 'colonization' of the GDR by the FRG; 'Ostalgie') and discuss the role of literature in society (e.g. the idea of the 'litt�rature engag�e') and public literary debates. Texts: Thomas Brussig: Helden wie wir: Grass, Gu?nter: Ein Schn�ppchen namens DDR. Letzte Reden vorm Glockengel�ut (in excerpts); Rolf Hochhuth: Wessis in Weimar; Monika Maron: Stille Zeile sechs; Thomas Rosenl�cher: Ostgezeter. Beitr�ge zur Schimpfkultur; Ingo Schulze: Neue Leben (in excerpts); Uwe Tellkamp: Der Turm. Geschichte aus einem versunkenen Land (in excerpts); Christa Wolf: Was bleibt.