LC 274 Women and Minorities in Eastern German Culture (CHC, G)

 

May Term 2003 - Assignment schedule -

Wednesday May 7

Introduction to class

Thursday May 8 Women in the beginnings of the German Socialist/Communist Movement

Film Rosa Luxemburg
VID. PN1997 .R67 1994
Discussion of film

Friday May 9 Communist Theory and the Role of Women

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels — "Communist Manifesto"
August Bebel — "Women of the Future" and "Free Development of the Individual" on e-reserve

Monday May 12 German Women during World War II

Deutschland Bleiche Mutter/ Germany Pale Mother
Discussion of Film

Helen Frink "Introduction" "Political Background" Women after Communism p. 1-22

Take home test assignment
Due Monday, May 19th

Tuesday May 13 Women in East Germany/The "Socialist Woman" in DEFA Film

Helen Frink "Women in the Workforce" Women after Communism p. 23-48
Irene Dölling "Structure and Eigensinn: Transformation Processes and Continuities of East German Women" After the Wall p. 183-202
Andrea Rinke "Models or Misfits? The Role of Screen Heroines in GDR Cinema"Triangulated Visions Women in Recent German Cinema p. 207-218 on e-reserve

Wednesday May 14

Reading and Film day

Thursday May 15 - Group Film presentations

resource on DEFA films - in German http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/defa/titel.htm

Friday May 16 Imagining the Other

 Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities "Introduction" 1-8 and "Memory and Forgetting" 187-206 on e-reserve
"National Identity and Social Memory" Barbara Szacka 33-38
"The National Culture and Cultures of the Others" Andrezej Szpocinski 39-46
"Ethnicity and Social Space" Ilja Srubar 47-63

Monday May 19 Imagined Ethnicity and the East German Western

Take home test due

Apachen
VID. PN1995.9.W4 A633 2000
Discussion of film

Tuesday May 20 Afro-Germans/The Holocaust

Discussion of poems by May Opitz

Jacob the Liar/Jakob der Lügner (Frank Beyer, 1975)
Discussion of film

Wednesday May 21 Jews in East Germany and the Vergangenheitsbewältigung

From Stated Memory on e-reserve
"Introduction: Stating German Holocaust Memory" and "Berlin, Moscow and the Imagined Jerusalem" Thomas Fox 1-18 and 97-144

Thursday May 22 - Jews in East Germany cont./ the Sorbs in East Germany

From Speaking Out. Jewish Voices from United Germany
"Jewish Identity - An East German Dimension" Wolf Biermann 102-115
"Yiddish Culture - A Soul Survivor of East Germany" Jalda Rebling 82-91
"On the Way to Pluralism? Jewish Communities in Germany today" Uri R. Kaufmann 28-38

Discussion of the "The Sorbs" - video

Friday May 23 - Vietnamese in the GDR/ Introduction to issues of minority rights in Germany

"Germany, not a Country of Immigration?"; "Germany as a Multicultural Society" and "Minority Literature and its Role in a Multicultural Society" Fringe Voices 3-22
"Xenophobia and Rightwing Extremism in Germany: The New Bundesländer"
Molly C. Laster and Sabrina P. Ramet 75-92 After the Wall. Eastern Germany Since 1989

Discussion of current immigration law

Presentation "The Vietnamese: the East German guest worker"

Monday May 26

Memorial Day - No classes

Tuesday May 27 - Issues of Language, Religion and Identity - The Turks

 Guest Speaker - Emine Evered - Lecturer Assistant Professor at Illinois State University

From Turkish Culture in German Society Today
"Living and Writing in Germany" Emine Sevgi Özdamar in Conversation with David Horrocks and Eva Kolinsky 46-54
"Black Eye and his Donkey. A Multi-Cultural Experience" Emine Sevgi Özdamar 55-70 (German text is next to English text)
and
"Turkish Cultural Organizations and the Role of Islam in Germany" Yasmin Karakasoglu 157-179

From Fringe Voices
"My Two Faces" Ayse 238-240
"Women are Property and Honor" Ayse 241-242
"Putting Obstructions in Youth Turks' Way" Ayse 243-244
"You Will Never Be Able to Learn This Language Devrim 245-246
"I Thought I was in Hell" Devrim 247-248
"Mother Tongue" Emine Sevgi Özdamar 252-255
"Germany - A Heimat for the Turks?" Yasmin Karakasoglu p. 256-263

Wednesday May 28

Reading/Film Day

Thursday May 29

 9 am Final Exam