GERMAN LITERATURE II
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- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- MATTEO GALLI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/13
Training objectives
- Ability to a textual analysis of films, using structuralist methodologies, textual criticism and with the instruments of cultural studies. Knowing the history of German Cinema
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The GDR-Film
Didactic methods
- Seminar
Learning assessment procedures
- Seminar paper (10 pages) in German on a GDR-Film, on a discourse activated by the history of german film with a special attention to intertextual relations and models
Oral exam on the teacher's lesson and on the presentations of the other students Reference texts
- Films (selection):
Wolfgang Staudte, Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946)
Kurt Maetzig, Ernst Thälmann, Führer seiner Klasse (1955)
Gerhard Klein, Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
Frank Beyer, Nackt unter Wölfen (1963)
Konrad Wolf, Der geteilte Himmel (1964)
Jürgen Böttcher, Jahrgang 45 (1966)
Frank Beyer, Spur der Steine (1966)
Egon Günther, Der Dritte (1972)
Heiner Carow, Die Legende von Paul und Paula (1973)
Frank Beyer, Jakob der Lügner (1974)
Egon Günther, Lotte in Weimar (1975)
Konrad Wolf, Solo Sunny (1980)
Lothar Warneke, Die Beunruhigung (1982)
Lothar Warneke, Einer trage des anderen Last (1988)
Heiner Carow, Coming out (1989)
Bibliography
Das zweite Leben der Filmstadt Babelsberg – DEFA-Spielfilme 1946–1992. Red. Ralf Schenk mit Beiträgen von Christiane Mückenberger, Ralf Schenk, Erika Richter, Klaus Wischnewski, Elke Schieber, Bärbel Dalichow, Susanne Brömsel, Renate Biehl. Hrsg. vom Filmmuseum Potsdam. Henschel, Berlin 1994,
Wolfgang Gersch: Szenen eines Landes. Die DDR und ihre Filme. Aufbau, Berlin 2006.
Marc Silberman, Henning Wrage (Hrsg.): DEFA at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture. A Companion. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2014
