INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN LITERATURE

The course "Introduction into modern German literature" is framed in the common curriculum of the Master's Degree Programme "Italian philology and literature".
According to the aims of the Master's Degree and to the areas Literatures and Cultures, the course provides the ability to consolidate advanced critical and methodological instruments and a solid knowledge of german literary texts in italian translation, and debates in their cultural and historical context.
The course is open for interested students attending other Degree Programmmes.

Aims of this course are:
a) the ability to analyse critically some of the most significant literary and theoretical texts of the cultural debates subject of the course;
b) the comprehension of these debates in their cultural and historical context;
c) the ability to consolidate critical and methodological instruments; d) the ability to comprehend and analyze texts and contexts in a competent and autonomous way;
e) the ability to perfectionate comunication and production by an accurate reading of the texts, the discussion and presentation in class and and a detailed study of scientific writing;
f) the ability to discuss in seminars and workshops about the subjects of the course.

None.
Knowledge of German is not required.

COURSE TITLE: Modern and contemporary Germany (1945-2022): Reprocessing the recent past: national-socialism, Shoah, two German Republics, the Berlin Wall, the reunified German Federal Republic, the great crisis (2019-2022).

1. Literary texts:

- Bertolt Brecht, Poesie I (1913-1933), Biblioteca della Pléiade, Einaudi 1984 (scelta, resa disponibile sulla piattaforma Moodle);
- Bertolt Brecht, Poesie II (1934-1956), Biblioteca della Pléiade, Einaudi 2005 (scelta, resa disponibile sulla piattaforma Moodle);
- Paul Celan, Poesie, a cura di Giuseppe Bevilacqua, Mondadori, Milano 1998 (scelta, resa disponibile sulla piattaforma Moodle);
- Heinrich Böll, Opinioni di un clown (1963), Mondadori, Milano 2017;
- Christa Wolf, Il cielo diviso (1963), edizioni e/o, Roma 2019;
- Peter Weiss, L'istruttoria (1965), Einaudi, Torino 2000;
- Siegfried Lenz, Lezione di tedesco (1968), Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2006;
- Günter Grass, Il passo del gambero (2002), Einaudi, Torino 2003;
- Ferdinand von Schirach, Il caso Collini (2011), TEA, Roma 2012.
- Bertolt Brecht, Poesie I (1913-1933), Biblioteca della Pléiade, Einaudi 1984 (scelta, resa disponibile sulla piattaforma Moodle);
- Bertolt Brecht, Poesie II (1934-1956), Biblioteca della Pléiade, Einaudi 2005 (scelta, resa disponibile sulla piattaforma Moodle);
- Paul Celan, Poesie, a cura di Giuseppe Bevilacqua, Mondadori, Milano 1998 (scelta, resa disponibile sulla piattaforma Moodle);
- Heinrich Böll, Opinioni di un clown (1963), Mondadori, Milano 2017;
- Christa Wolf, Il cielo diviso (1963), edizioni e/o, Roma 2019;
- Peter Weiss, L'istruttoria (1965), Einaudi, Torino 2000;
- Siegfried Lenz, Lezione di tedesco (1968), Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2006;
- Günter Grass, Il passo del gambero (2002), Einaudi, Torino 2003;
- Ferdinand von Schirach, Il caso Collini (2011), TEA, Roma 2012.

2. Philosophical texts:

- Walter Benjamin, Per una critica della violenza (1921) (available on Moodle);
- Hannah Arendt, Le origini del totalitarismo (1951) (passages, available on Moodle);
- Hannah Arendt, La banalità del male. Eichmann a Gerusalemme (1963), Feltrinelli, Milano 2020;
- Martin Heidegger, I quaderni neri (passages, available on Moodle);
- Max Horkheimer - Theodor W. Adorno, Sull'antisemitismo, in Iid., Dialettica dell'illuminismo (1941-1974), Einaudi, Torino 2013 (passages, availale on Moodle).

3. Historical context:
- Raul Hilman, La distruzione degli ebrei d'Europa, Einaudi, Torino 1985 (passages, available on Moodle);
- Gustavo Corni, Storia della Germania da Bismarck a Merkel, il Saggiatore, Milano 2017, cap. 4-12;
- Gian Enrico Rusconi, Germania: il passato che non passa, Einaudi, Torino 1986 (passages, available on Moodle).

4. Literary and cultural context:
Marino Freschi (a cura di), Storia della civiltà letteraria tedesca, UTET, Torino 1998, vol. II., pp. 490-507, 508-543, 547-577, 578-594, 656-663.

Oral exam (about 45 minutes) aiming to verify the abilities acquired by students, to check their knowledge of the whole programme and their ability to reflect critically on its themes.

Regular class sessions. Teaching materials will be provided in pdf format on the course Moodle.
Front lectures and seminars.

Italian

Non attending students will have to contact the lecturer (al5@unive.it) and check the moodle of the course for further readings.
All students are kindly requested to check frequently the notices on the lecturer's CF-homepage.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development