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German 305 Course Page, UNCG - Fall 1998
Andreas Lixl Professor of German Department of German, Russian, and Japanese Studies
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
http://www.uncg.edu/gar/courses/lixlpurc/ German 305.
Advanced Topic Taught in German.
Tuesday Evenings from 6:00 - 8:50 PM
German Culture: From Weimar to Bonn
Description: The course covers three major periods of German social history since the fall
of the monarchy in 1918: Weimar Culture, the Third Reich, and divided Germany until the
construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Designed as an interdisciplinary course, From Weimar
to Bonn focuses first on the modernist experiments in the Roaring Twenties, from Expressionism
to Dadaism, and Realism. The second portion investigates the volkish ideologies of
Nazi-Culture, including its propaganda campaigns through literature and film. Voices from the
resistance, as well as exile and Holocaust accounts written by German-Jewish authors provide
historical, cultural, and literary reflections. The third leg of the course illuminates the
country's postwar divison, and the social restructuring of West-Germany, with an emphasis on
works by Nelly Sachs, Brecht, and the GRUPPE 47. Films, slides, lectures, student projects, web
excursions, and seminar discussion are conducted in German. Prerequisite: German 204 or
equivalent. Films include: Fritz Lang, Metropolis; Veit Harlan, Jud Suess; Sigfried Lenz,
Deutschstunde. Course participants can choose between taking a final exam or writing a final
paper. Reading materials will be selected from the following required and/or recommended
texts:
Otto F. Best (ed.). Expressionismus und Dadaismus. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1974. ISBN 3-15-009653-7.
DM 14
Keun, Irmgard. Das kunstseidene Mädchen. Stuttgart: Klett, 1981. ISBN 3-12-351140-5. DM
10
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