Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of German Literature and Culture
- Code
- OT-NEM-201
- Title
- History of German Drama
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 2
- Language
- de
- Description
- Learning outcomes
- a) Knowledge:Knowledge of the interrelationship between the genres of German literature, historical knowledge and a sound theoretical basis for the interpretation of the processes of literary history. Knowledge of the basic trends in German dramatic literature and the methodology of research in the field of the history of relations. b) Ability to think in different conceptual frameworks and to reflect critically on the knowledge acquired. Understands the logic of cultural change and is able to mediate between cultures with intercultural communicative competence. c) Attitude: Understands and accepts that cultural phenomena are historically and socially determined and changing. d) Autonomy and responsibility: to become familiar with the German way of thinking which, drawing on German literary, historical and philosophical experience, provides different answers to contemporary questions in the light of dramatic literature
- Course content
- Content of the course. The lecture will provide students with the intellectual basis and knowledge that is essential for drama: the seminars will survey German drama from the Enlightenment to the present day.The diverse trends that emerged after the Enlightenment lead to the isms of the turn of the century and finally to the postmodern era. These are explored by analysing representative dramas from each period.
- Assessment method
- examination
- Bibliography
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Minna von Barnhelm; Emilia Galotti Friedrich Schiller: Don Carlos Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Egmont Georg Büchner: Woyzeck Johann Nepomuk Nestroy: Der Talisman Gerhard Hauptmann: Frühlings Erwachen Arthur Schnitzler: Reigen Hugo v. Hofmannsthal: Jedermann Bertold Brecht: Dreigroschenoper