FPF:UCJNP048 Special Seminar in German Lite - Course Information
UCJNP048 Special Seminar in German Literature 1
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/8. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Miroslav Urbanec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Miroslav Urbanec, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- German for Teachers (programme FPF, B7310 Filo)
- Course objectives
- The course, created for the second year of Bachelor Studies, introduces epic texts, written after the year1945 in the former western (BRD) and eastern (DDR) Germany. The course focuses on the short story as a genre which is not to difficult to read, to understand and to deal with. The intention is to discuss the specific topics and formal structures of the German short stories of that time and to analyze the similarities and differences between the western and eastern texts. The students will analyze stories written by the most outstanding German writers.
- Syllabus
- 1. German literature after 1945
2. The Short story
3. Wolfgang Borchert: Die Kegelbahn and Das Brot
4. Heinrich Böll: Dr. Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen
5. Discussion of homework
6. Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Das Ende einer Welt
7. Johannes Bobrowski: Rainfarn
8. Erwin Strittmatter: Schwertlilien
9. Discussion of homework
10. Günter Kunert: Lieferung frei Haus
11. Experiment: Construction of a short story
12. Discussion of the experiment
- 1. German literature after 1945
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Kayser, Wolfgang. Das sprachliche Kunstwerk. Eine Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft. Tübingen / Basel 1992. info
- Bellmann, Werner / Hummel, Christiane (Hg.). Deutsche Kurzprosa der Gegenwart. Interpretationen. Stuttgart 2006. info
- Durzak, Manfred. Die deutsche Kurzgeschichte der Gegenwart. Autorenporträts, Werkstattgespräche, Interpretationen. Würzburg 3. Aufl. 2002. info
- Skorna, Hans Jürgen. Die deutsche Kurzgeschichte der Nachkriegszeit im Unterricht. Ratingen 1967. info
- Marx, Leonie. Die deutsche Kurzgeschichte. Stuttgart / Weimar 2005. info
- Kilchemann, Ruth J. Die Kurzgeschichte. Formen und Entwicklung. Stuttgart 1967. info
- Nentwig, Paul. Die moderne Kurzgeschichte im Unterricht. Braunschweig 1967. info
- Braem, Helmut M. Die Short Story. In: Ders. (Hg.): Amerikanische Erzähler. Short Stories. Eine Anthologie. Stuttgart 1964, S. 3-49. info
- Roisch, Ursula. Geschichte als Geschichten. In: Jäckel / Roisch, a.a.O., S. 106-163. info
- Rohner, Ludwig. Kalendergeschichte und Kurzgeschichte. In: Ders.: Kalendergeschichte und Kalender. Wiesbaden 1978, S. 446-451. info
- Arnold, Heinz Ludwig. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Stuttgart / Weimar 2009. info
- Fuchs, Herbert / Mittelberg, Ekkehart. Klassische und moderne Kurzgeschichten. Varianten - kreativer Umgang - Interpretationsmethoden. Texte und Materialien. Berlin 2005. info
- Thiemermann, Franz-Josef. Kurzgeschichten im Deutschunterricht. Bochum 2. Aufl. 1967. info
- Jäckel, Günter. Nachrichten und poetische Information. In: Jäckel, Günter / Roisch, Ursula: Große Form in kleiner Form. Zur sozialistischen Kurzgeschichte. Halle (Saale) 1974, S. 7-105. info
- Nayhauss, Hans-Christoph Graf v. (Hg.). Theorie der Kurzgeschichte. Stuttgart 2004. info
- Giesecke, Almut. Zum Leistungsvermögen einer Prosaform. In: Weimarer Beiträge 23 (1977), Heft 8, S. 110-139. info
- Language of instruction
- German
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Seminář 8 HOD/SEM. - Teacher's information
- Attendance, active participation, homework. There will be a written or oral examination at the end of the course.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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