GER 5410 is also offered in Fall 2024
GER 5410 is also offered in Spring 2024
GER 5410 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2024 | GER 5410 Section 001: Topics in German Literature -- Revisiting Socialism. The Case of GDR (33459)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
- Meets With:
GER 3441 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 107
- Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topic may focus on a specific author, group of authors, genre, period, or subject matter. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- East Germany's history seemed to have ended in 1989. Did it though? Current political, economic, and cultural divides that become visible in state elections, protest movements and racist violence as well as in recent sociological studies (for example, Steffen Mau's much discussed 2019 Lütten Klein. Leben in der Transformationsgesellschaft) suggest the opposite. So let us revisit East German socialism 35 years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What was daily life, what were culture and art like in socialism and how come that this past still haunts the project of a unified Germany, leaving it incomplete, even in risk of failure? Is there something to be nostalgic about, something worth saving at times when capitalism seems to be incapable to respond to the existential threats we face? We will - without nostalgia - explore East German society through films, popular music, visual art, and literature, putting an emphasis also on the so-called Wende, the time between the Fall of the Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. Furthermore, throughout we will discuss the concept of socialism and its multiple origins and changes.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33459/1249
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