HISTORY OF GERMAN CULTURE

The course of History of German Culture is a core educational activity of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in "Languages, Civilisation and Science of Language" (Literary-Cultural curriculum and Political-International curriculum) and provides a a specific knowledge of German Culture, Literature and Language according to the aims of the Bachelor's Degree Programme.

The course promotes knowledge and critical analysis of cultural phenomena related to cinema and literature in the German twentieth century.

German language skills B2.

The subject of the course is German cinema in four fundamental moments of its twentieth-century history: the first phase linked to Expressionism at the beginning of the twentieth century; the second phase of the Weimar film; the two parallel cinemas that develop from the second post-war period respectively in Germany divided between Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) and Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD).

Wolfgang Jacobsen, Anton Kaes, Hans Helmut Prinzler (Hrsg.): Geschichte des deutschen Films. Metzler, Stuttgart 2004.
Downloadable material provided by the teacher in moodle.

The oral examination is structured in three parts:

a test of reading and translation of excerpts from novels that were the subject of film reductions covered during the course;
the presentation of a personal research on a film from the German film canon not covered in class (15 minutes);
three questions on the course topics and material covered in the lecture.

In order to pass the examination it is necessary to obtain a sufficient grade in each of the above three parts, which will be graded with points from 0 to 10 each. Sufficiency, i.e. 6 points, will be obtained with elementary competence and the absence of serious errors and gaps, and points 7 to 10 will be obtained on the basis of breadth of knowledge and argumentative quality.

Lectures and projections of extracts of the films treated.

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