GER 301 Berlin in the 20th Century

Prerequisite: any GER 200-level course or permission of the department chair. The interaction of a "cultural landscape" and literature from the turn of the century to the year 2002 will be studied in works by Alfred Döeblin, Nelly Sachs, Bertolt Brecht, Christa Wolf, Zehra Cirak, etc. Movies will be used to provide a visual background and further topics for discussion.