Syllabus Media market and law - Germany and the USA in a comparative perspective - 54678

Last update 27-02-2014

HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Cont. German Studies:politics, Soc.&Cult

Academic year: 0

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: English

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Paul Michael Ltzeler

Coordinator Email: [email protected]

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff: Dr. Katya Assaf

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Course/Module description: The block course deals with essays written by German and Austrian authors who either were exiled writers during the Nazi period of the 1930ies and 1940ies s Sperber) or were part of theטThomas Mann, Klaus Mann, Hilde Spiel, and Man) inner emigration and resistence (Reinhold Schneider). In addition contemporary cosmopolitan essayists like Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Adolf Muschg, and Robert Menasse are included. What these writers have in common is their conviction that there exists a common multifaceted European culture that is worth to be defended against racism, chauvinism, totalitarianism and consumerism. What they are concerned about is less the political institutionalization of a united Europe but rather the awareness of a cultural heritage that is based on the dialogic relation of its components (Antiquity, Judaism, Christianity, and Enlightenment). The course is conducted in English but since some of the essays being discussed have not yet been translated, a reading knowledge of German is required. (Half of the essays are available both in English and in German). The texts dealt with can be received through Ms. Elisheva Moatti ([email protected]) from the European Forum. Each participant has to make a 15 minute oral presentation on one of the essays and has to hand in a 10 page paper at the end of the semester. The topics have to be discussed with the instructor during his office hours.

Course/Module aims: The aim is to make the students familiar with the very specific contributions to the question of a European identity and of European unity as soon from the exiled point of view. Most of these writers were Jewish writers, so the seminar tries to make the students understand the essays on Europe discussed as part of Jewish exile literature.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: Better understand the literary, cultural and historical situation of exiled authors between 1933 and 1945 who had to go into exile either into other European countries or to the United States or both or retreat into a situation that has been called inner emigration. Above and beyond the students will understand how the experience of exile formed their ideas about European identity and cultural unity in the decades following the Second World War and the Holocaust. At the end of the seminar the students get to understand essays on Europe written by contemporary writers who picked up ideas from authors of the preceding generation.

Attendance requirements(%): 80%

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Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: The course is a mixture of longer or shorter lectures by the instructor and, first of all, a forum for a discussion with the students who have read the essays. During the lecture segments power point illustrations will be used.

Course/Module Content: 1. Sunday, March 9, 2014 First hour: Introductory lecture: The Writers’ Europe: An Imagined Community Second hour: Thomas Mann: Beware Europe! / Achtung, Europa! (1935) 2. Monday, March 10, 2014 First hour: Thomas Mann: This Peace / Dieser Friede (1938) Second hour: Klaus Mann: The Ordeal of the European Intellectual / Die (ischen Geistes (1949הHeimsuchung des europ 3. Tuesday, March 11, 2014 First hour: Reinhold Schneider: Europa als Lebensform (1957) Second hour: Hilde Spiel: Das Sternbild Europa (1977) 4. Wednesday, March 12, 2014 (s Sperber: Ende der Verfhrbarkeit Europas (1986טFirst hour: Man Second hour: Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Brussels or Europe? / Brssel oder Europa? (1989) 5. Thursday, March 13, 2014 (isch? [Excerpts] (2005הFirst hour: Walter Muschg: Was ist europ (ische Landbote [Exc erpts] (2012הSecond hour: Robert Menasse: Der Europ

Required Reading: Books • Die Schriftsteller und Europa. Von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart (Mnchen: Piper, 1992) [PN 605 E87 L84] • Literatur und kologie, ed. Axel Goodbody (Tbingen: Stauffenburg, 1997) • Kontinentalisierung. Das Europa der Schriftsteller, ed. Paul Michael Ltzeler (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2007) • Editions • Europa. Analysen und Visionen der Romantiker, ed. Paul Michael Ltzeler (Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1982) ,doyers fr Europa. Stellungnahmen deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller 1915-1949הPl • ed. Paul Michael Ltzeler (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1987) • Hoffnung Europa. Deutsche Essays von Novalis bis Enzensberger, ed. Paul Michael Ltzeler (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1994) • Europe after Maastricht. American and European Perspectives, ed. Paul Michael Ltzeler (Providence and Oxford: Berghahn, 1994)

Additional material available in English: on Thomas Mann:

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• Paul Michael Luetzeler: "'The City of Man': Thomas Mann's Initiative in American Exile", in: P.M.Luetzeler: Transatlantische Germanistik (Berlin and Boston: 2013), pp. 142-156. • Ritchie Robertson: "Thomas Mann (1875-1955)", in: The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists, ed. Michael Bell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 343-360. [PN 3491 C33 2012] on Klaus Mann: • Andrea Weiss: In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain. The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), pp. 207-240. [Tel Aviv University, aleph_tau01002150851, 838.912 MAN-B (WEI)] • Nicola Behrmann: "You can't go home again: Exiles in Klaus Mann's 'The Volcano'", in: Escape to Life. German Intellectuals in New York, ed. Eckart Goebel (Berlin and Boston, 2012), pp. 353-370. [NNL, 2013 B 5534] on Hilde Spiel: • Lara Feigel: "Writing the foundations of a better world. The role of Anglo-German literary exchange in the reconstruction of Germany and the construction of Europe 1945-1949, in: Europa! Europa? The avant-garde, modernism and the fate of a continent, ed. Sascha Bru (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009), pp. 229-243. [ebook] • Christoph Parry: "Constructing European Identity in Fiction. Three Strategies", in: Literature for Europe? ed. Theo D'Haen (Amsterdam: European Science Foundation, 2009), pp. 279-297. [ebook] on Hans Magnus Enzensberger • Catherine Nichols: "Looking back at the end of the world. Hans Magnus Enzensberger on 1989 and the Milleneum, in: Monatshefte 92.4 (2000): 413-444. [JSTOR] • Arrigo Subiotto: From everyday to doomsday. The critique of progress and civilisation in Hans Magnus Enzensberger's writings", in: Literatur und kologie, ed. Axel Goodbody (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998), pp. 69-84.

Additional Reading Material: None

Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 60 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 0 % Project work 0 % Assignments 20 % Reports 20 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 %

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