GERMAN HONOURS PRE-ADVISING FOR 2018-20
For German, all students proceeding into Junior or Senior Honours (except those abroad) must see the current Honours Adviser, Dr Beedham (Buchanan 204, cb1), for Early PreAdvising on Wednesday of Week 12 (2 May 2018). You must also see the Honours Adviser again for Advising in September. For Pre-Advising, fill in the form at the end of this document and sign up for meetings on the board outside Dr Beedham’soffice. Students abroad: e-mail me the form by the end of 13 May 2018, and I will enter your choices on-line.
These are summary notes for Early Pre-Advising in German. For general guidelines on Pre-Advising and programme requirements, see the general information forSoML students and the Course Catalogue. If you have any questions, ask during the Pre-Advising meeting with Dr Beedham.
Some points to remember:
- You need90 credits at 4000 level across Junior and Senior Honours across the whole degree. This does not apply if you did Study Abroad.
- Not all content modules are always available, and they may fill up. There is no formal cap in German, but 18 is usually the limit for practical reasons and we try to balance out the modules.
- GM3005–GM3006 and GM4105–GM4106are compulsory Language modules. If you are Study Abroad, however, you only do those compulsory Language modules which are runningduring your Semesters here.
- GM4007 (Translation Methodology) is compulsory for Single Honours students when it is offered, but optional for everyone else. It is only available once every two years, so if you want to do it, plan ahead.
- If you are thinking about a dissertation, you must contact the Head of German in advance of or during Pre-Advising, as well as a member of staff who would be able to help you come up with a workable idea (see staff specialisms below). Dissertations are only available in Senior Honours. You need to obtain approval from the Head of German before the end of Semester even if you are abroad. GM4098 (15 credits) involves a semester-long dissertation of 5,000-6,000 words; GM4099 (30 credits) involves a year-long dissertation of up to 10,000 words.
- Joint Honours degrees within the SoML do not have to have a 50/50 split, others do.
- You may not ‘dip down’ (i.e. you must take Honours modules).
- The Year Abroad module codes are: GM3101 Integrated Year Abroad (60 credits not counted for degree classification) (WIYA year); GM3103 Residential Project in German-speaking country; GMSAUY (full year away doing German modules for credit, not necessarily in Germany);GMSAU1 (first semester away) GMSAU2 (second semester).
Module/Semester Timetable for Honours German
NB: Staff in the German Dept continually apply for external research grants, and when they are successful it sometimes impacts upon the running and timing of Honours options. In such cases, students will be informed of any changes that have to be made, as well as of changes which may arise for other reasons.
2018-19
LANGUAGE / LITERATUREAND CULTURE2018-19
Semester 1 / GM3005 Ger Lang I (compulsory in Junior Hons)
GM4105 Ger Lang III
(compulsory in Senior Hons)
GM4007 German Translation Methodology / GM3088 Travel Writing in German Since 1990
GM4072 German Classicism
GM4084 Germany’s Monsters
GM40X1 German Popular Music: Sound, Page, Screen
GM4098 Short Dissertation
GM4099 Long Dissertation
2018-19
Semester 2 / GM3006 Ger Lang II
(compulsory in Junior Hons)
GM 4106 Ger Lang IV
(compulsory in Senior Hons) / GM3091 The Nazi Past in German and Austrian Culture
GM4046 Medieval Things
GM4094 The German Long Story 1881-1941
GM40X2 Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture
GM4098 Short Dissertation
GM4099 Long Dissertation
2019-20(Änderungenvorbehalten)
LANGUAGE / LITERATURE ANDCULTURE2019-20
Semester 1 / GM3005 Ger Lang I (compulsory in Junior Hons)
GM4105 Ger Lang III (compulsory in Senior Hons) / GM3075 Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus
GM3089 German Gothic, 1800-2000
GM4057 Holocaust Memory and its Discontents
GM4074 Medieval Film
GM4092 East German Cinema
GM4098 Short Dissertation
GM4099 Long Dissertation
2019-20
Semester 2 / GM3006 Ger Lang II
(compulsory in Junior Hons)
GM 4106 Ger Lang IV(compulsory in Senior Hons) / GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story
GM4070 Writing Nature, 1800-2000
GM4075 Berlin: Modernity and the Metropolis
GM4078 Masculinities in German Film, TV and Literature
GM4098 Short Dissertation
GM4099 Long Dissertation
Staff areas of interest (for dissertations):
Prof.Seán Allan: German culture of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Post-war German film. Representations of the Wende and German Unification. German art and architecture in its cultural context.
Prof.Bildhauer: Medieval German literature; medievalism; gender studies; film.
Dr Cusack: 19th-century German literature, cultural memory, travel literature, popular literature, fin-de-siècle Austrian writing, history of ideas, historiography.
Dr Lawson: 20th and 21stcentury German literature and film; East German film; cultural memory of the Nazipast;W.G. Sebald; psychoanalysis; comparative literature.
Dr Osborne: post-1945 literature, film and visual culture, memory studies, Holocaust studies, psychoanalysis, memorials and museums.
Dr Smith: contemporary literature, film and culture; East German society and culture; gender and queer studies; music (classical or popular) in German and Austrian culture.
Dr White:19thcenturyGerman literature, especially Realism and its 20th century influence; literary space; literary reception and translation.
German Honours Set Texts
You can see a brief outline of the modules in the Course Catalogue, when the latest is published (most of them also in earlier ones). The reading lists below are just to give you a better idea of what you would be doing in the modules and as such are subject to change. See the table above for availability of the modules by semester.
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche Dr White
Set Texts
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1988)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches (Munich: dtv, 1999)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2000)
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story Prof.Bildhauer
Set Text
Novellistik des Mittelalters, ed. Klaus Grubmüller (Munich: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2010)
Plus selectedstoriesfrom:
Kleinere mittelhochdeutsche Verserzählungen: Mittelhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch, ed. andtrans. Jürgen Schulze-Grobert (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006) PT1392.K6
Codex Karlsruhe 408, ed. Ursula Schmid (Berne: Francke, 1974) PT1392.K2S3
Die deutsche Märendichtung des 15. Jahrhunderts, ed. Hanns Fischer (Munich: Beck, 1966), pp. 71–88 PT177.F58
Herrand von Wildonie, Vier Erzählungen, ed. Hanns Fischer, 2nd edned. Paul Sappler (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1969) PF3991.W5F5
Folz, Hans, Die Reimpaarsprüche, ed. Hans Fischer, Münchner Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 1 (Munich: Beck, 1961) PT1519.F4R4F5
Stricker, Der, Erzählungen, Fabeln, Reden: Mittelhochdeutsch/ Neuhochdeutsch, ed. Otfrid Ehrismann (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1992) PT1653.A4E5
Kleinere mittelhochdeutsche Verserzählungen: Mittelhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch, ed. andtrans. Jürgen Schulze-Grobert (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006)
GM3075 Thomas Mann – Doktor FaustusDr White
Set Texts
Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus. Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn erzählt von einem Freunde. Roman, (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2008)
Thomas Mann, Die Entstehung des Doktor Faustus: Roman eines Romans. In der Fassung der Großen kommentierten Frankfurter Ausgabe, (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2012)
GM3088 Travel Writing in German since 1990Dr Cusack
Set Texts
Herrndorf, Wolfgang, Tschick(Reinbekbei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2012) [first edn 2010] ISBN:978-3499256356 (256pp)
Kracht, Christian, Faserland (Fischer Taschenbuch 2015) [firstedn 1995] ISBN:978-3596185320 (160pp)
Rosenlöcher, Thomas, Die Wiederentdeckung des Gehens beim Wandern: Harzreise (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991) ISBN: 978-3518116852 (90pp)
Sebald, W.G., Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2002) [firstedn 1995] ISBN: 978-3596136551 (349pp)
Antje Rávic Strubel, Gebrauchsanweisung für Potsdam und Brandenburg (Munich: Piper, 2012) ISBN: 978-3-492-27604-7 (248pp)
GM3089 The German Gothic, 1800-2000 Dr Cusack
Set Texts
Hoffmann, E.T.A. Die Elixiere des Teufels (Reclam 1986) ISBN: 978-3150001929.
Hoffmann, E.T.A. Nachtstücke (Reclam 1990) ISBN:978-3150001547.
Liebmann, Irina. In Berlin (Berliner Taschenbuch 2002) ISBN: 978-3442760596.
Meyrink, Gustav. Der Golem (dtv 2009) ISBN: 978-3423137379.
Murnau, F.W. Noseferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens. DVD. Available in Library
Schiller, Friedrich Der Geisterseher (Reclam 1995) ISBN: 978-3150074350..
Tieck, Ludwig. William Lovell (Reclam 1986) ISBN 978-3150083284.
GM3091 The Nazi Past in German and Austrian Culture Dr Lawson
Set Texts
Heinrich Böll,Wo warst du Adam (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag)
Peter Weiss,Die Ermittlung: Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (Suhrkamp)
Nackt unter Wölfen (dir. Frank Beyer 1963)
Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Der Verlorene (Suhrkamp)
Günter Grass, Im Krebsgang (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag)
Der Untergang (dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004)
GM4007 Translation MethodologyDr White
Set Text
Sandor Hervey, Michael Loughridge and Ian Higgins, Thinking German Translation, Second
Edition (London: Routledge, 2006)
GM4046 Medieval Things Prof.Bildhauer
Set texts
Kaiserchronik: Mittelhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch, ed. andtrans. Matthias Herweg (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2014)
Heinrich von Veldeke, Eneasroman: Mittelhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1986)
Wirnt von Grafenberg,Wigalois, ed. andtrans. Sabine and Ulrich Seelbach (Berlin: de Gruyter, secondedition 2014)
Hans Sachs, ‚Von dem verlornenredentengulden’, in Sachs, [Werke],ed. Adalbert von Keller, vol. 4 (Stuttgart: Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins, 1870 [1553]), Vol 4, pp. 216–227 (on googlebooksand also in library)
Otnit/Wolfdietrich: Frühneuhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch, ed. andtrans. Stephan Jolie and Victor Miller (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2013)
GM4057 Holocaust Memory and its DiscontentsDr Osborne
Primary Material:
Texts
Iris Hanika, Das Eigentliche (Munich: btb, 2011)
Ruth Klüger, weiter leben. Eine Jugend (Munich: dtv, 1994)
Katja Petrowskaja, Vielleicht Esther (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2014)
Films
Robert Thalheim,Am Ende kommen Touristen
Malte Ludin,2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß
Jens Schanze,Winterkinder. Die schweigende Generation
Frauke Finsterwalder, Finsterworld(2013)
Memorials
Berlin Holocaust memorial, Gunter Demnig’s,Stolpersteine, andotherprojectstobeconsideredalongsideMartin Walser’sprizeacceptancespeech, ‘Erfahrungen beim Verfassen einer Sonntagsrede’ (1998)
GM4070 Writing Nature: German Environmental Thought, 1800-2000 Dr Cusack
Set Texts
Frisch, Max. Homo faber(Suhrkamp) ISBN: 978-3518368541. 208pp.
Gotthelf, Jeremias. Die Wassernot im Emmental. [A copy will be provided.]
Grass, Günter, Die Rättin(DTV) ISBN: 978-3423125284. 496pp.
von Haller, Albrecht. Die Alpen (Reclam) ISBN: 978-3150096550
Der deutsche Idealismus: Eine Einführung in die Philosophie von Fichte, Hegel und Schelling, ed. by Gerhard Gamm (Reclam) ISBN: 978-3150089637
Stifter, Adalbert. Bunte Steine (Reclam) ISBN: 978-3150041956
Wolf, Christa. Störfall: Nachrichten eines Tages ISBN: 978-3518460795. 129pp.
GM4072 German ClassicismDr White
Set Texts (editions tbc)
all available in paperback in the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag
Goethe, Klassische Dramen
Goethe, Gedichte 1756-1799
Schiller, Klassische Dramen
Schiller, Theoretische Schriften
Schiller, Gedichte
Hölderlin, Sämtliche Gedichte
GM4074 Medieval Film.Prof. Bildhauer
Set Films (TBC)
Die Nibelungen Teil I Siegfrieds Tod/Teil II Kriemhilds Rache (dir. Fritz Lang, Germany, 1924)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (dir. Lotte Reiniger, Germany, 1926)
A Canterbury Tale (dir. Michael Powell/EmericPressburger, UK, 1944)
Kingdom of Heaven (dir. Ridley Scott, Germany/Spain/UK/USA, 2005)
TheDa Vinci Code (dir. Ron Howard, USA, 2006)
Tristan + Isolde (dir. Kevin Reynolds, CzechRepublic/Germany/UK/USA, 2006)
Beowulf (dir. Robert Zemeckis, USA, 2007)
Die Päpstin (dir. SönkeWortmann, Germany/Italy/Spain, 2009)
GM 4075 Berlin: Modernity and the MetropolisProf. Allan
(a) Texts
Short extracts from Die Berliner Moderne, 1885-1914, ed. Schutte and Sprengel (1987)
Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
Klaus Schlesinger, ‘Die Spaltungen des Erwin Racholl’ in: Berliner Traum (1980)
Peter Schneider, Der Mauerspringer (1982)
(Editions TBC)
(b) Films:
Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt (Walter Ruttmann, 1927)
Berlin –Ecke Schönhauser (Gerhard Klein, 1957)
Die Mauer (Jürgen Böttcher, 1990)
Die leere Mitte (HitoSteyerl, 1998)
(c) Buildings
The Reichstag
The Palast der Republik
The Berliner Stadtschloss
The Neue Wache
Holocaust Denkmal
GM4078 Masculinities in German Film, TV andLiteratureDr Smith
Set Texts:
Films
Sabine Bernardi (dir.), Romeos (2011)
Martin Christ, Ulrich Voigt and Jens Gronheid (dirs), Die Mannschaft (2014)
Romuald Karmakar (dir.), Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht (2017)
TV
Edward Berger and Samira Radsi (dirs), Deutschland 83 (2015)
Hannes Stöhr (dir.), Tatort: Odins Rache (2004)
Literature
Wolfgang Herrndorf, Tschick(2010)
Antje Rávic Strubel, Kältere Schichten der Luft (2007)
Feridun Zaimoglu, German Amok (2002)
GM4084 Germany’s Monsters Prof. Bildhauer
Set texts and films (TBC)
Herzog Ernst, ed. andtrans. B. Sowinski (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1998)
Thüring von Ringoltingen, Melusine, ed. Hans-Gert Roloff (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1991)
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2001)
ETA Hoffmann, Der Sandmann, ed. Max Kämper (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2015)
Nosferatu (dir. F. W. Murnau, 1922)
Metropolis(dir. Fritz Lang, 1926)
GM4092 East German Cinema. Dr Lawson
Set Films
Die Mörder sind unter uns (Wolfgang Staudte, 1946)
Roman einer jungen Ehe (Kurt Maetzig, 1952)
Berlin–Ecke Schönhauser (Gerhard Klein, 1957)
Jahrgang ’45 (Jürgen Böttcher, 1965)
Das Kaninchen bin ich, (Kurt Maetzig, 1965)
Ich war 19 (Konrad Wolf, 1968)
Jakob der Lügner (Frank Beyer, 1975)
Die Legende von Paul und Paula (Heiner Carow, 1973)
Solo Sunny (Konrad Wolf, 1980)
Sonnenallee (Leander Haußmann, 1999)
GM4094 The German Long Story, 1880-1941Dr Cusack
Set Texts
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Lotti die Uhrmacherin [1880](Reclam, 1999)
Theodor Fontane, Unterm Birnbaum [1885](Reclam, 1998)
Theodor Storm, Der Schimmelreiter [1888](Reclam, 2005)
Arthur Schnitzler, Lieutenant Gustl [1901] (dtv, 2004)
Thomas Mann, Mario und der Zauberer: Ein tragisches Reiseerlebnis [1930] (Fischer, 2001)
Stefan Zweig, Schachnovelle [1941](Fischer, 1977)
GM40X1 German Popular Music: Sound, Page, ScreenDr Smith
Set Texts and Films
Wolf Biermann, selection of poetry
Heiner Carow (dir.), Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1973)
Wolfgang Büld (dir.), Gib Gas – Ich will Spaß (1983)
Peter Sempel (dir.), Nina Hagen = Punk + Glory (1999)
FeridunZaimoglu, Kanak Sprak (1995)
Thomas Meinecke, Musik (2004) – the only longish one. Meinecke will be Writer in Residence and will be working with us on the course, so do get a headstart!
Set Playlist
Wolf Biermann; Die Puhdys; Nena; Markus Mörl; Nina Hagen; Lady Bitch Ray; Ace Tea feat. Kwam.e; Haftbefehl; Casper; Nimo; mixes by the Tresor label (see the tresor.de website); Deichkind; Peter Schilling; Tubbe; Conchita Wurst; and the rather wonderful but obscure BrockdorffKlangLabor
GM40X2 Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture Dr Osborne
Primary Material:
Texts
Monika Maron,Pawels Briefe (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2001)
Gerhard Roth, Im tiefen Österreich (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1994) andextractsfromEine Reise in das innere von Wien (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1993) (bothfromDie Archive des Schweigens)
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2011)
SašaStanišić, Vor dem Fest (Munich, btb: 2015)
Films
Harun Farocki,Aufschub(2007)
Cate Shortland,Lore (2012)
Christian Petzold, Phoenix (2014)
Philip Scheffner,TheHalfmoon Files (2007)
Visual Art Projects/Exhibitions
Thomas Demand, Nationalgalerie (2009)
Simon Menner, Top Secret (2013)
ArwedMessmer, ReenactmentMfS (2015)
Ruth Beckermann, The Missing Image (2015)
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