608245 VO History of Modern German Literature: Literature from the turn of the century (1880-1918)

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608245
VO History of Modern German Literature: Literature from the turn of the century (1880-1918)
VO 2
2,5
weekly
each semester
German

Knowledge of literature and its contexts of the era of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. and the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I.

The lecture offers an overview of the German and Austrian literature and its political and socio-cultural contexts from 1880 to 1918, concentrating on topics, genres and trends. Main authors will be H. Dohm, Lou-Andreas-Salomé, G. Hauptmann, H. Bahr, R. Mayreder, H. v. Hofmannsthal, F. Kafka, R. Musil, R. M. Rilke, A. Schnitzler, G. Trakl and authors of Expressionism,  K. Kraus et al.

Literary overview (historical and sociological) including the interpretation of selected texts

written exam

Primary literature we will announced in the first lesson.

Literature:

Thomas Anz: Literatur des Expressionismus. 2. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler 2010 (= SM  329).

Hugo Aust: Literatur des Realismus. 3., überarb. u. aktual. Aufl. Stuttgart 2000 (= Slg. Metzler, 157).

Ralf Georg Bogner: Einführung in die Literatur des Expressionismus. Darmstadt: WBG 2016.

Walter Fähnders: Avantgarde und Moderne 1890-1933. 2.Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler 2010. 

Dorothee Kimmich, Tobias Wilke: Einführung in die Literatur der Jahrhundertwende. Darmstadt: Wiss. buchges. 2011.

Dagmar C. Lorenz: Wiener Moderne. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2007.

Dirk Rose: Polemische Moderne. Stationen einer literarischen Kommunikationsform vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Göttingen: Wallstein 2020.

Peter Sprengel: Von der Reichsgründung bis zur Jahrhundertwende. Bd. 9: Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur 1870-1900. München 1998.

Ingo Stöckmann: Naturalismus. Stuttgart: Metzler 2011.



Cf. Curriculum

The lecture is based on texts. Constant reading is expectet.

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Group 0
Date Time Location
Thu 2020-10-15
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-10-22
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-10-29
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-11-05
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-11-12
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-11-19
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-11-26
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-12-03
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-12-10
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2020-12-17
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2021-01-07
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2021-01-14
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2021-01-21
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Thu 2021-01-28
15.30 - 17.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online Online Prüfung
Fri 2021-03-19
13.00 - 14.30 eLecture - online eLecture - online Online Prüfung
Fri 2021-06-11
13.00 - 14.30 eLecture - online eLecture - online Online Prüfung