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Die Schriftsteller können nicht so schnell schreiben, wie die Regierungen Kriege machen; denn das Schreiben verlangt Denkarbeit.
Writers cannot write as quickly as governments conduct war, because writing requires thinking.
Bertolt Brecht

Literature about war is inherently the writer's reflection on war, as the above quote by Brecht indicates. In this seminar we will focus on representations of war in German literature and film. How did German writers and directors reflect on war? Can we identify a changing attitude toward war when we look at German literature from the earliest period up to today? Does writing about war necessarily expose a conflict between those who plan and those who bear the consequences of war? How do the writers deal with violence and emotions? How are we, as readers or viewers, influenced by such representations of war? These questions will guide us throughout this course in pursuit of possible answers.
The course strives to provide an overview of German literature and culture from the beginning to today with an emphasis on war.

GENERAL LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
-Recognize and indentify key concepts of German literary history
-Demomstrate effective written and oral communication skills
-Collaborate and perform effectively in team activities

SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
-Identify significant works of German literature from the earliest periods through today relating to war
-Discuss theoretical writings on war and if and how attitudes towards war have changed.
-Prepare a bibliography and compose a convincingessay (MLA style)
-Demomstrate their German language skills by expanding vocabulary through the reading of higher level German texts.

ASSESSMENT
A variety of tools will help me to assess your progress in this course: from short pop quizzes, a book review, bibliography, a Power Point Presentation, and a research paper with a literary analysis, to a final exam, with a short answer section and an essay question, all in Germa, will provide feedback on your performance in this class. Since I am using a grading software, students will have the opportunity to keep track of their progress from week to week.

PARTICIPATION / PREPARATION / ATTENDANCE POLICY / MISSED CLASSES FOR UNDERGRADUATES
Participation and preparation count as 10 % of your grade. When you come to class, have your assignments prepared, readings, presentations, writing assignments. I will check your reading comprehension with small quizzes.
You will have an initial 28 points in your participation/preparation account, with two points per class/week; if you come prepared you receive full participation/ preparation credit for that class session. For every class you miss I will deduct two points. You cannot earn preparation/participation points if you are not present; if you have not prepared your assignments you may not earn full credit.
Regular attendance is essential, especially since this class meets only once a week. THERE ARE NO MAKE-UPS for missed quizzes and other assignments. On rare occasions when absence is unavoidable due to serious illness or family emergency, I may require proof of your reason of absence before we discuss the possibility of make-up work.

If you miss more than 20 % of class time, you will receive an automatic "F", regardless of the quality of your work. Since this course meets only once per week, you will receive an automatic "F" if you miss more than three classs sessions.

GRADING FOR UNDERGRADUATES

Participation/Preparation (incl. quizzes, translations etc.)	10%
Oral presentation (Power Point Referat)	20%
Bibliography - MLA style	10%
Book Review (Wiki Entry)	20%
Essay (schriftliche Hausarbeit)	20%
Final	20%

GRADING FOR GRADUATES

3 Sitzungsprotokolle	15%
Oral presentation (Power Point Referat)	20%
Wiki Entry (Biographie - Autor/in)	10%
Article Reviews	15%
Essay (schriftliche Hausarbeit)	40%

The Grading Scale is the standard +/- scale used by the university.

A+ 97-100	A 93-96	A- 90-92	B+ 87-89	B 83-86	B- 80-82
C+ 77-79	C 73-76	C- 70-72	D+ 67-69	D 63-66	D- 60-62
F 59 below

 

ASSIGNMENTS
Prepare to read a lot for this course. You will also have to present a PowerPoint, prepare a bibliography, write a book review and an essay. All assignments listed on the syllabus are to be prepared for the day they are listed. You will probably spend about four to six hours work outside of class for each class session. This includes preparing reading and writing assignments.

*Power Point Presentation FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES
You will prepare a Power Point presentation of about 20 minutes in length including a handout for. For this Power Point Referat, you will present on a work (book or film) about war that you are not reading in class. You will also prepare your bibliography on that same work, as well as your research essay (schriftliche Hausarbeit).
PREPARE YOUR BOOK REVIEW FOR THE DAY YOUR POWER POINT PRESENTATION AS AN ADDITIONAL HANDOUT.

You will be evaluated on handout, content, grammatical accuracy, delivery, and the presentation overall.

Hints for your presentation:
*Be ready to talk for at least 20 minutes, run a test presentation in order to prepare for your actual Referat.
*You may not just read from the slides.
*Slides should be a backdrop for your presentation.
*Make use of photos, illustrations, maps etc. in your slides, but do not overdo it. Refrain from soundeffects or other distracting features.
*Make sure that your presentation does not contain any spelling or grammatical errors.
*Make sure that your handouts contains all important information so it can serve all students in order to review for the final.

*Bibliography FOR UNDERGRADUATES ONLY
You will prepare a bibliography on recent scholarly research on one work / topic from German literature dealing with war. You will prepare the bibliography on the same work as your PPT Referat and your essay>
YUNDERGRADUATES: Your bibliography has to contain at the least 10 -15 articles and/or books.

*Book Review FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES
You will write a review of one additional work that we do not read as a group.
Your choice of work has to be approved by me.
Your Power Point presentation, bibliography, and essay may be on the same work.
PREPARE YOUR BOOK REVIEW FOR THE DAY YOUR POWER POINT PRESENTATION AS A HANDOUT.
You should count on a minimum of two to three pages for this assignment (double-spaced, MLA style).
Please familiarize yourself how to write a review.

*Article / Chapter Review Journal Review FOR GRADUATES ONLY
You will write reviews of three scholarly articles / book chapters important for the course and present on them briefly in class (no longer than 5 minutes). The reviews may NOT be longer than one page. List on the top the bibliographical entry and make copies for all class members. Please familiarize yourself how to write a review. Consult an academic journal such as the German Quarterly.

*Sitzungsprotokolle FOR GRADUATES ONLY
You will prepare minutes of three class sessions. The minutes are due the following day (Friday) by noon at the latest. Please submit your minutes / SItzungsprotokolle via email, and I will post them as a link on this website.
Why the early due date? Minutes are intended as a review tool. They are of no help to other students if they are posted too late. Minutes are prepared easiest and best by writing them directly after a session.

*Essay FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATES
Your schriftliche Hausarbeit (essay) will be a research paper on at least one work dealing with war. You may also compare and contrast more than one work with each other. Please discuss your essay topic with me.

UNDERGRADUATES: Your essay should be between 8-10 pages in length (MLA Style follow this link to view a sample heading and a works cited page, double spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point font). You have to consult at least three secondary sources (scholarly research articles / books). You may use internet pages as an additional source, but articles from newspapers or wikipedia are not scholarly research articles. Scholarly articles accessed by means of the library web page are valid secondary sources (research articles). If you are not sure, please check with me.

GRADUATES: Your essay should be between 14-18 pages in length (MLA Style follow this link to view a sample heading and a works cited page, double spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point font). You have to consult at least ten secondary sources (scholarly research articles / books). You may use internet pages as an additional source, but articles from newspapers or wikipedia are not scholarly research articles. Scholarly articles accessed by means of the library web page are valid secondary sources (research articles). If you are not sure, please check with me.

For all your written assignments you are required to use a Word processor. This will facilitate the editing of your text immensely. German characters: Please make sure that you use in your writing the appropriate German characters (ss for ß or ue for ü etc are not acceptable). If you need help how to type German characters, please consult this link.

All assignments have to be double spaced and follow MLA Style (please follow this link to view a sample heading and a works cited page). Mark the total of your words at the end of your essay. Please prepare your assignments on time and note that I will not accept any excuses for the lateness of your written work because of any kind of computer related problems. Assignments are due at the beginning of class.
UNDERGRADUATES: All written assignments have to be turned in via Turnitin.com (Turnitin ID: ; Password: goethe).

The University of Alabama reserves the right to use electronic means to detect and help prevent plagiarism. Students agree that by taking this course all course documents are subject to submission to Turnitin.com. All materials submitted to Turnitin.com will become source documents in Turnitin.com's restricted access database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism in such documents.

*Final exam ONLY UNDERGRADUATES
There will be a final exam covering the assigned material and all the class presentations. The final exam will consist of a short answer section and a short essay.

DISABILITY SERVICES
It is university policy to provide, on a flexible and individualized basis, reasonable accommodations to students who have disabilities that may affect their ability to participate in course activities or to meet course requirements. Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact me in the beginning of the semester to discuss their individual needs for accommodations. It is standard university procedure that instructors require from students with learning disabilities a letter requesting accommodations in compliance with the Office of Disability Services (ODS). If you have a disability, register with ODS. Instructors are not obligated to provide academic adjustments until they have received an RFA letter ("Request for Accommodations" letter). To request disability accommodations, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 348-4285. After initial arrangements are made with that office, contact your professor. This information refers to all courses at the university.

UA NONDISCRIMINATION NOTICE
The University of Alabama complies with applicable laws prohibiting discrimination, including Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Executive Order 11246, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veterans Adjustment Assistance Act, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in, its programs and services.

DISABILITY SERVICES
It is university policy to provide, on a flexible and individualized basis, reasonable accommodations to students who have disabilities that may affect their ability to participate in course activities or to meet course requirements. Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact me in the beginning of the semester to discuss their individual needs for accommodations. It is standard university procedure that instructors require from students with learning disabilities a letter requesting accommodations in compliance with the Office of Disability Services (ODS). If you have a disability, register with ODS. Instructors are not obligated to provide academic adjustments until they have received an RFA letter ("Request for Accommodations" letter). To request disability accommodations, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 348-4285. After initial arrangements are made with that office, contact your professor. This information refers to all courses at the university.

STORMS AND OTHER EMERGENCIES
The primary university communication tool for sending out information is the UA web site. Students should consult this site as soon as they can in an emergency. Information on the course will be given through the E-learning shell in case of an emergency.

REQUIRED TEXTS

UNDERGRADUATES	GRADUATES
Hildebrandslied	Hildebrandslied
Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus (excerpts)	Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus*
Ein Söldnerleben im Dreißigjährigen Krieg (excerpts)	Ein Söldnerleben im Dreißigjährigen Krieg (excerpts)
Gedichte der Barockzeit zum Krieg	Gedichte der Barockzeit zum Krieg
	Rilke: Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke
Jünger, In Stahlgewittern (excerpts)	Jünger, In Stahlgewittern (excerpts)
Remarque, Im Westen nichts Neues*	Remarque, Im Westen nichts Neues*
Jüngere Gedichte zum Thema Krieg	Jüngere Gedichte zum Thema Krieg
Braun, Sächsischer Simplicius	Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder*
Hilsenrath, Der Nazi & der Friseur (excerpt)	Hilsenrath, Der Nazi & der Friseur (excerpt)
Böll, Wo warst du,Adam?(excerpt)	Böll, Wo warst du,Adam?(excerpt)
Böll, Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa	Böll, Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa
Nöstlinger, Maikäfer flieg*	Grass, Im Krebsgang*
	Franck, Die Mittagsfrau*
*buy
link to online bookstore with undergrad books	link to online bookstore with grad books

SEMESTERPLAN

TEXTE:

Autor	Text	Links
Anonym	Hildebrandslied	Engl. translation; mehr ahd Texte;
Anonym	Rolandslied
Anonym	Nibelungenlied
Wolfram von Eschenbach	Willehalm
Varia	Kreuzzugsdichtung
Anonym	Warhaffttige: Zeyttungen Von der Belegerung vnnd eynemung der Statt Neuß [...], (1586) auf "PDF- Dokument anzeigen" klicken!
Peter Suchenwirt	Peter Suchenwirt's Werke aus dem vierzehnten Jahrhunderte : ein Beytrag zur Zeit- und Sittengeschichte siehe Kapitel 4 (Von hertzog Albrechts ritterschaft) zum Kapf gegen Preussen und Litauer (~1380)
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen	Der Abentheuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668) The Simplicissimus Project - The Adventurous Simplicissimus (Engl.)	XLibris; XLibris Kurzinhalt;   Über Grimmelshausens Simplicissimus. - Ringvorlesung Uni Kiel: Romane von der Antike bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. pdf; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek - Lit zu Grimmelshausen;
Andreas Gryphius	Tränen des Vaterlands (1636)
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein	Cleopatra (1661)
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein	Arminius und Thusnelda (1689)
Martin Opitz	Trostgedichte in Widerwärtigkeit des Krieges
Maurus Friesenegger	Tagebuch aus dem 30jährigen Krieg: Nach einer Handschrift im Kloster Andechs
Peter Hagendorf	Ein Söldnerleben im Dreißigjährigen Krieg (Auszug, pdf) (1627-1633)	Buchbesprechung: Jan Peters (Hrsg.): Ein Söldnerleben im Dreißigjährigen Krieg (GEO);
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim	Preußischen Kriegslieder in den Feldzügen 1756 und 1757 von einem Grenadier
Paul Gerhardt	Neujahrsgesang
Matthias Claudius	Kriegslied (1782)
Friedrich von Schiller	Wallenstein (Wallensteins Lager , Die Piccolomini, Wallensteins Tod) (1799)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Kampagne in Frankreich (1792)
Heinrich von Kleist	Die Hermannsschlacht (pdf) Die Hermannsschlacht
Bertha von Suttner	Die Waffen nieder! (1889)
Theodor Fon tane	Vor dem Sturm (1878)
Rainer Maria Rilke	Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (1899)
Remarque	Im Westen nichts Neues
Ernst Jünger	In Stahlgewittern
Georg Trakl	Grodek
Karl Kraus	Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (1922)
Bertolt Brecht	Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1939)	Links zum Text;
Arnold Zweig	Erziehung vor Verdun
Döblin	Wallenstein
Ricarda Huch	Der Dreißigjährige Krieg
Carossa	Tagebuch im Kriege (Rumänisches Tagebuch)
Hartlaub	Im Sperrkreis. Aufzeichnungen aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg 1950
Borchert	Draußen vor der Tür
Kästner	Sergeant Waurich
Noll	Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt
Grass	Die Blechtrommel
Böll	Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa
Böll	Wo warst du, Adam?
Sebald	Luftkrieg und Literatur
Wolf	Kassandra
Christine Nöstlinger	Maikäfer, flieg!
Dieter Forte	Der Junge mit den blutigen Schuhen
Friedrich	Der Brand
Grass	Im Krebsgang
Sebald	Austerlitz
Anonyma	Eine Frau in Berlin
Tanja Drückers	Himmelskörper
Julia Franck	Die Mittagsfrau
Uwe Timm	Am Beispiel meines Bruders
Walter Kempowski	Alles umsonst
Bernhard Schlink	Die Heimkehr
Arno Surminski	Winter Fünfundvierzig oder Die Frauen von Palmnicken

SPRICHWÖRTER
Krieg sät Krieg.
Krieg frisst Gold und scheißt Kieselsteine.
Wer Krieg predigt, ist des Teufels Feldprediger.
Nach dem Kriege stellen sich viele Helden ein.
Böser Nachbar, ewiger Krieg.


SPRACHE UND WÖRTERBÜCHER
LEO Deutsch-Englisch-Deutsch
Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, ausführlichstes Wörterbuch zur deutschen Sprache
Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch von Matthias Lexer
Mittelhochdeutsche Wörterbuch von Georg Friedrich Benecke, Wilhelm Müller und Friedrich Zarncke (=BMZ)
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch ausgezeichnetes Wörterbuch, besonders für Fachsprachen
Was ist die deutsche Sprache? CD- 2, Frühneuhochdeutsch (Prof.Dr. Karl-Dieter Bünting, Uni Essen) Klicken und hören!

MITTELALTER
Literatur des Mittelalters (750 -1500) Epochenübersicht
Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters erster Überblick
Kursmaterialien zur Seite oben vermittelt Grundlagen
Literaturgeschichte des Mittelalter ein kurzer Überblick (Spickzettel)
Spätmittelalter

FRÜHE NEUZEIT: Europa im 16. Jahrhundert
Quellenautopsien Datenbank: Europäische Geschichte Historisches Seminar München
Early Maps mit Regina Europa
Druckgraphische Buchillustrationen des 15. Jh. hervorragende Quelle für Illustrationen
Media History Timeline, 15th / 16th century
Erfinder und Meister

WEITERE EPOCHEN / LITERATURGESCHICHTEN / BIOGRAPHIEN
Literaturepochen (Literaturwelt) ausführlicher guter Überblick
Literaturepochen (Vocke) kürzer
Literarische Epochen von 1600 bis 1933 (Xlibris) ausgezeichnet und ausführlich, leider erst ab 1600
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie informiert über bedeutende Personen, die vor dem Jahr 1900 verstorben sind

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