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Secondary competences in the historical and systematic discussion of german language literature

The course concentrates on literary estates, the methods of their organization, and on possibilities of source-centered literary scholarship.
Literary archives are treasure troves for historical and literary scholarship. The estates and manuscripts held there open new perspectives on literary history and cultural tradition. In literary archives, cultural heritage is scholarly evaluated as well as communicated to a scholarly and wider public. Together, we explore the questions: What is a “Nachlass” and what types of documents do we ideally find in it? How do we organize it professionally? Is literary and cultural tradition generating itself or is it produced, and if so, by whom?

Theoretical and practical approaches to our subject-matter, practical work with literary estates

Active participation in class, discussions, in-class presentations, small written assignment

to be provided in the course