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Seminar on Current German Literature - OPNG2G134B
Title: Seminář k současné německé literatuře
Guaranteed by: Katedra germanistiky (41-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: German
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Tamara Bučková, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Tamara Bučková, Ph.D. (30.01.2022)
The course will concentrate on literature since the postmodernism, authors of German, Austrian as well as Swiss literature, authors of migrant literature including those with Czech or Slovac roots. The focus will lie on prose, more precisely on novels and short stories. Literary works will be – if possible – compared to films. A special topic will be the authors represented in the textbooks for schools with the output of Das deutsche (österreichische) Sprachdiplom. The starting point will be the bellow listed topics, one of the offered works will be analysed. The course includes the work of P. Süskind (Perfume. The Story of a Murderer) and P. Mercier (Night Train to Lisbon) as postmodern and postpostmodern novels; the work of B. Schlink (The Reader) and G. Grass (Peeling the Onion) as a retrospect to the historical burden related to nacism; short stories of C. Rusch (Meine freie deutshc Jugend, Aufbau Ost) and the novel Der Turm. Geschichte aus einem versunkenen Land by Uwe Tellmann as a retrospect to former GDR; short stories of Judith Herrmann representing the work of so called Fraüleinwunder; short stories of Inge Schulze and others. From the migrant literature, the work of Wladimir Kaminer (Russendisco) will be discussed; from the work of authors with Czech roots Michael Stavaric, with Slovak roots Zdeňka Bezděková. From the work of authors represented in textbooks, Daniel Glattauer and Doris Dörrie can be named. From the newest literature, the novel Trafikant by the Austrian writer Robert Seethaler must not remain unmentioned. Course is taught in German.
Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Tamara Bučková, Ph.D. (30.01.2022)

Petersdorf, D. v.: Literaturgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart. München: Beck, 2011.

Krigsleger, W.: Eine kurze Geschichte der Literatur in Österreich. Menschen – Bücher – Institutionen. Wien: Praesens, 2011. 

Aesbacher, M.: Vom Stummsein zur Vielsprachigkeit. Vierzig Jahre Literatur aus der deutschen Schweiz (1958-1998). Bern: Lang, 1998. 

Beutin, W. et al: Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart - Weimar: Verlag J. B. Betzler, 2008.

Glosíková, Viera; Tvrdík, MIlan et al. Slovník německy píšících spisovatelů. Něměcko. Praha: Libri, 2018.

Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Tamara Bučková, Ph.D. (30.01.2022)

Organizational instructions; Postmodern novel (P. Süskind Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders, P. Mercier: Nachzug nach Lissabon); Reflection World War II in literature (B. Schlink: Der Vorleser); women's literature (J. Herrmann: Sommerhaus später); The german democratic republic in the literature (Claudia Rusch: Meine freie deutsche Jugend); Migrant literature (Wladimir Kaminer: Russendisco); Contemporary writers in the textbooks German as a foreign language (Danie Glattaus, Doris Dörrie); Austrian writers with the Czech culture roots (Michael Stavaric, Zdeňka Becker); Conclusion, course evaluation  

Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Tamara Bučková, Ph.D. (30.01.2022)

75% attendance, active participation in the course, presentation (group work)

 

Obligatory literature: reading of variously themed texts; short stories (selection of works by C. Rusch; J. Herrmann, I. Schulze, W. Kaminer) + novel or other longer pieces of literature to be discussed in the group.

 

 
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