Lazda GN 264 Worksheet 1 |
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1. What is German "Lied" in English?
2. When was the Nibelungenlied written?
3. What can you tell about the author of the Nibelungenlied?
4. How many manuscripts of the Nibelungenlied exist today?
5. What genre is the Nibelungenlied? What is the Old English equivalent?
6. What historical events does the Nibelungenlied reflect?
7. What is the Völsunga saga?
8. Name the main cities/ regions where the action takes place.
9. There are many lengthy descriptions in the Nibelungenlied. What do they describe?
10. Whay are there these lengthy descriptions?
11. Who is in your opinion the main protagonist in the Nibelungenlied? Why?
12. Where there moments while reading when you thought, oh yes, that is like in ... (example: invisibility cloak -Harry Potter). What were they?
13. Who was Fritz Lang- write a short biography in five sentences.
14. Lang dedicated the movie to:
15. Why did he make a movie about the Nibelungen?
16. From what year is the movie?
17. Who wrote the script?
18. Why did Lang move to the U.S.?
19. Name three other films by Fritz Lang.
20. Already in the early nineteenth century the Nibelungenlied was called the German national epic. Can you guess why?
21. What is the connection between the Nibelungenlied and Richard Wagner?
22. What was the Dolchstoßlegende or Stab-in-the back legend?
23. Can you guess how the Nibelungenlied was read during the rule of National Socialism?