Programme 2015-16
| GE108 The Changing Face of Germany in Film and Text Programme for 2016/17 Term 1 |
| Week |
Lecture (Weds 10-11 in LIB 1) |
Tutorial (Mon. & Tues., various rooms & times) |
Screening (Weds from 2pm in SO.20) |
Workshop (Weds 11-12 in LIB 1) |
| 1 |
Wiederaufbau & Wirtschaftswunder 1: The Restoration of West German society (HS) |
No tutorials |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1978) with guidance on reading film (HS) |
How to read film 1 (before Maria Braun screening) (HS) |
| 2 |
W&W 2: Writers and the political reconstruction of Germany (HS) |
Maria Braun 1 |
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Effective preparation for tutorials (HS) |
| 3 |
W&W 3: The military reintegration of the Federal Republic and opposition to
rearmament (HS) |
Maria Braun 2 |
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How
to read prose 1 (HS) |
| 4 |
W&W 4: The press in post-war Germany (HS) |
Heinrich Böll: Das Brot der frühen Jahre 1 |
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Internet
research (RP) |
| 5 |
Vergangenheitsbewältigung 1: Documentary drama (HS) |
Das Brot der frühen Jahre 2 |
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Essay writing 1 (HS) |
| 6 |
READING WEEK |
| 7 |
VBW 2: The Jews in post-war Germany (inc. more on Auschwitz trials) (CA) |
Peter Weiss: Die Ermittlung 1 |
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Referencing (HS) |
| 8 |
VBW 3: Cinema & Vergangenheitsbewältigung (HS) |
Die Ermittlung 2 |
Bernhard Wicki, Die Brücke (1959) |
How to read film 2 (HS) |
| 9 |
VBW 4: Post-war debates (1) (HS) |
Die Brücke |
Michael Verhoeven: Das schreckliche Mädchen (1980) |
Careers & skills (David Molyneux) |
| 10 |
VBW 5: Post-war debates (2) (HS) |
Das schreckliche Mädchen |
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| Term 2 |
| Week |
Lecture (Weds 10-11 in LIB 1) |
Tutorial (Mon. & Tues./Weds, various rooms & times) |
Screening (Weds from 2pm in SO.20) |
Workshop (Weds 11-12 in LIB 1) |
| 1 |
Terrorism 1: The anti-authoritarian student movement (JJ) |
Bernhard Schlink, Der Vorleser (1995) 1 |
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| 2 |
Terrorism 2: Urban terrorism & the state (HS) |
Schlink, Der Vorleser 2 |
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| 3 |
VBW 6: Mass media - cinema (HS) |
Heinrich Büll: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (text) |
Volker Schlöndorff/Margarethe von Trotta: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975) |
Essay writing 2 (JJ) |
| 4 |
Gender 1: Feminism workshop (BR) |
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (film) |
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Feminism
(cont. from lecture slot) (BR) |
| 5 |
Gender 2: The Women’s Movement; the politics of feminism; the cultural politics of
West German feminism (BR) |
Elfriede Jelinek: Die Liebhaberinnen 1 |
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How to read prose 2 (irony) (HS) |
| 6 |
READING WEEK |
| 7 |
Multicultural Germany 1 (JJ) |
Die Liebhaberinnen 2 |
Fatih Akın, Kurz und schmerzlos (1998) |
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| 8 |
Multicultural Germany 2 (JJ) |
Kurz und schmerzlos |
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| 9 |
Multicultural Germany 3 (Islam) (JJ) |
Wladimir Kaminer, Russendisko |
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| 10 |
GDR1 Politics and society 1 (GB) |
Wladimir Kaminer, Russendisko 2 |
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| TERM 3 |
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Lecture |
Tutorial |
Screening |
| 1 |
GDR2 Politics and society 2 (GB) |
Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. 1 |
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| 2 |
Exam preparation (BR) |
Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. 2 |
Konrad Wolf, Solo Sunny (1980) |
| 3 |
GDR3 (film) (IR?) |
NO TUTORIAL |
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| 4 |
NO LECTURE |
Konrad Wolf, Solo Sunny (1980) |
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GE108 Writers, Media & Society in Contemporary Germany
Programme for 2012/13
Term 1
|
|
Week
|
Lecture
(Weds 10-11 in LIB 1)
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Tutorial
(Mon. & Tues., various rooms & times)
|
Screening
(Weds from 2pm in SO.20)
|
Workshop
(Weds 11-12 in LIB 1)
|
|
1
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The Restoration of West German society (HS)
|
No tutorials
|
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1978) with guidance on reading film (HS)
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2
|
Writers and the political reconstruction of Germany (HS)
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Fassbinder, Die Ehe der Maria Braun
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Prose Fiction 1: Questions of narrative construction and point of view (HS)
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3
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The military reintegration of the Federal Republic and opposition to rearmament (HS)
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Heinrich Böll, Das Brot der frühen Jahre (1955)
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Bernhard Wicki, Die Brücke (1959)
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Effective preparation for tutorials & seminars (HS)
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4
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‘Die Bewältigung der Vergangenheit’ (1): Documentary Drama (HS)
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Wicki, Die Brücke
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Essay writing workshop 1 (HS)
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5
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Migration & settlement in the FRG 1 (JJ)
NB double lecture this week
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Weiss, Die Ermittlung (1965)
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Migration & settlement in the FRG 2 (JJ)
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6
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READING WEEK
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7
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Library & internet research
(German Subject Librarian Richard Perkins)
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Renan Demirkan, Schwarzer Tee mit drei Stück Zucker (1990) (1)
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8
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Islam (JH)
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Renan Demirkan, Schwarzer Tee mit drei Stück Zucker (1990) (2)
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Referencing and bibliographies (HS)
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9
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The anti-authoritarian student movement of the 1960s (HS)
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Essays by Necla Kelek & Hilal Sezgin.
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Fatih Akın, Kurz und schmerzlos (1998)
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10
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Feminism workshop (BR)
NB double lecture this week
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Akın, Kurz und schmerzlos
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Continuation of feminism workshop (BR)
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Term 2
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Week
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Lecture
(Weds 10-11 in LIB 1)
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Tutorial
(Mon. & Tues.)
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Screening
(Weds from 2pm in SO.20)
|
Workshop
(Weds 11-12 in LIB 1)
|
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1
|
The Women’s Movement; the politics of feminism; the cultural politics of West German feminism (TBC)
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Elfriede Jelinek, Die Liebhaberinnen (1975) (1)
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Prose fiction 2: Questions of genre and irony (JJ)
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2
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‘Die Bewältigung der Vergangenheit’ (2): cinema (TBC)
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Elfriede Jelinek, Die Liebhaberinnen (1975) (2)
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Helma Sanders-Brahms, Deutschland, bleiche Mutter (1979)
N.B. this screening will last over 2 hours!
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3
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‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ (3) and representation: post-war debates (HS)
NB double lecture this week
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Sanders-Brahms, Deutschland, bleiche Mutter
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Michael Verhoeven, Das schreckliche Mädchen (1987)
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Continuation of ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ workshop (HS)
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4
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Mass media (1): the press in the Federal Republic (GB)
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Verhoeven, Das schreckliche Mädchen
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5
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Mass media (2): cinema (TBC)
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Heinrich Böll, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1974)
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Volker Schlöndorff/Margarethe von Trotta: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1975)
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Essay writing workshop 2 (JJ)
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6
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READING WEEK
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7
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Urban terrorism and the state (TBC)
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Schlöndorff/von Trotta: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
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Reinhard Hauff, Stammheim (1985)
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8
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Introduction to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (GB)
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Hauff, Stammheim
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9
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The role of the media in the GDR (GB)
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Ulrich Plenzdorf, Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. (1973)
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Konrad Wolf, Solo Sunny (1980)
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10
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The role of women in the GDR (GB)
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Wolf, Solo Sunny
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TERM 3
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Lecture
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Tutorial
|
Screening
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1
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The film culture of the GDR (SA)
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Monika Maron, Flugasche (1981) (1)
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2
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Cultures of memory in post-unification cinema (SA)
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Monika Maron, Flugasche (1981) (2)
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3
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Jews in the FRG and GDR (CA)
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NO TUTORIAL
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Dani Levy, Alles auf Zucker (2004)
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4
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Revision & exam preparation (BR)
10-12
NB double session
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Dani Levy, Alles auf Zucker
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