Module Identifier |
GEM0230 |
Module Title |
KEY MOMENTS IN GERMAN CULTURE (2) 1945 - 1990 |
Academic Year |
2007/2008 |
Co-ordinator |
Dr Winifred V Davies |
Semester |
Semester 2 |
Other staff |
Dr Karina Lindeiner-Strasky |
Course delivery |
Lecture | 4 Hours. |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 16 Hours. |
Assessment |
Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 X 4000 word essay | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmission of essay | |
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Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Students should feel that they have a good, detailed knowledge of the development of German culture between 1945-1990. They should have further developed their skills as critical readers of culture, and those students who wish to go on with their studies should feel that they have a solid foundation for postgraduate research.
Films to be studied:
Fassbinder, R. W., Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979)
Staudte, Wolfgang, Die Morder sind unter uns (1946)
Carow, H., Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1973)
Brief description
This course will examine a range of cultural texts and artefacts in order to introduce students to the development of German society between 1945-1990. Through the prism of literature, film and linguistics, students will explore the division of Germany, developments in the GDR and FRG as well as the issues surrounding the unification of 1990. In so doing students will not only gain a detailed knowledge of the politics and culture of the period, but also increase their competence as critical 'readers' of culture.
Reading Lists
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** General Text
Allan, Sean and John Sandford (1999) DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992
Berghahn
Allinson, M. et al (2000) Contemporary German
Harlow
Anz, Thomas (ed) (1991) Es geht nicht um Christa Wolf: Der Literaturstreit im vereinten Deutschland
Munich
Bathrick, David (1996) The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the GDR
Nebraska
Benz, Wolfgang (ed) (1989) Die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik
Frankfurt
Boll, Heinrich (1963) Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen and other stories
Harrap
Braun, V. (1977) Unvollendete Geschichte
Frankfurt
Bullivant, Keith (1994) The Future of German Literature
Oxford
Bullivant, Keith (ed) (1989) After the 'Death' of Literature: West German Writing of the 1970s
Oxford
Cooke, Paul, Nicholas Hubble (1997) 'Die volkseigene Opposition? The Stasi and the Alternative Culture in the GDR' in German Politics, 6.2
Cooke, Paul, J. Grix (eds) (2000) East Germany Continuity and Change
Amsterdam
Elsaesser, Thomas (1989) New German Cinema
Basingstoke
Emmerich,Wolfgan (1996) Kleine Literaturgeschichte der DDR: Erweiterte Neuausgabe
Leipzig
Erbe, Gunter (1993) Die verfemte Moderne: die Auseinandersetzung mit dem 'Modernismus' in Kulturpolitik, Literaturwissenschaft und Literatur der DDR
Opladen
Fulbrook, Mary (1995) Anatomy of a dictatorship: inside the GDR, 1949-1989
Oxford
Hermand, J. (1986) Kultur im Wiederaufbau: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945-1965
Munich
Jager, Manfred (1995) Kultur und Politik in der DDR 1945-1990
Cologne
Kolinsky, E. (1995) Women in 20th-Century Germany: A reader
Manchester
Lettau, Reinhard (ed) (1967) Die Gruppe 47: Bericht, Kritik, Polemik
Neuwied
Ludke, M. (1977) Literatur und Studentenbewegung
Opladen
Pusch, L. (1984) Das Deutsche als Mannersprache
Frankfurt
Reid, J.H. (1990) Writing without Tabooks: The New East German Literature
New York
Ruther, Gunter (1991) 'Greif zur Feder, Kumpel': Schriftsteller, Literatur und Politik in der DDR 1949-1990
Dusseldorf
Sandford, J. (1980) The New German Cinema
London
Schneider, P. (1993) Vati, ed. by C. Riodan
Manchester
Stefan, V. (1994) Hautungen
Frankfurt (new ed.)
Strauss, B. (1977) Die Widmung
Munich
Wagenbach, K. (1979) Vaterland, Muttersprache
Berlin
Wander, Maxie (1997) Guten Morgen, du schone
Munich
Weedon, C. (1988) Die Frau in der DDR
Oxford, New York
Wichner, Ernest, Herbert Wiesner (eds) (1993) Literaturentwicklungsprozesse: die Zensur in der DDR
Frankfurt/Main
Woods, Roger (1986) Opposition in the GDR under Honecker, 1971-1985
Basingstoke
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7