Syllabus
1. Organizational instructions
2. Short story analysis (Peter Bichsel)
3. The phenomenon of literary fiction vs. literary document (Johne Boyne vs. Jenifer Teeger)
4. autobiographical motifs (literary reports by Egon Erwin Kisch)
5. aspect of gender in young literature (Tamara Bach)
6. fairy tales, fantasy (Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm; Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman; Adelbert von Chamisso; James Krüss; Michael Ende)
7. Experimental poetry
8. Drama Analysis (scenic staging of literary texts)
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11. Analysis of literary works by students' choice (e.g. Theodor Fontane, Franz Kafka, Erich Maria Remarque, Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
12. Conclusion, course evaluation
Annotation
The analysis will focus on various aspects of thematic, compositional, linguistic and media components of literary works with regard to their possible use in teaching German as a foreign language. The course will pay attention to the prose, poetry and drama of the 20th century and German-Czech literary relations(e.g.
Zdeňka Becker, Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Gudrun Pausewang, Otfried Preussler, Peter Härtling). Course is taught in German.