GERMAN & EUROPEAN STUDIES IN THE U.S.
Changing World, Shifting Narratives
University of Massachusetts Amherst
NEH SUMMER INSTITUTE
6 July – 2 August 2005
Syllabus
*note: Unless noted otherwise, readings are part of the books or readers that will be sent to you. Some readings could not be included in the readers for copyright reasons. These will be on ereserve and/or print reserve. For instructions on using ereserves, please see the enclosed handout.
A print reserve will be available at the Nielsen Library at Smith; see attached handout.
*subject to change. Please check updated program at: http://www.umass.edu/germanic/neh2005 .
Week 1 : Transatlantic Agendas in Contemporary History and a "New European Historiography"
Week 2: Film and History / Film as History / Film History
Week 3 : Issues in Feminism and German Studies
Week 4 : A Multicultural Germany in a Globalizing World? The Case of Black Germans
Week 5 : Academic Work in a Changing World
Week II (July 11-15, 2005) Film and History / Film as History / Film History Facilitator: Barton Byg and Katie Trumpener |
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Sunday July 10 7:30 p.m. |
Film Screening: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall Die Patriotin [The Woman Patriot], FRG, Alexander Kluge, 1979. 121 minutes. 16 mm. |
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Monday July 11 |
Film and History / Film as History / Film History: Narratives Moving East |
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9 a.m. – 12 p.m. |
Neilson Browsing Room
Keynote lecture (Katie Trumpener): Rethinking German Film History
Discussion.
Reading: Katie Trumpener. “ La guerre est finie : New Waves, Historical Contingency, and the GDR ‘Rabbit Films'.” Ed. Michael Geyer. The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany . Chicago : U of Chicago P, 2001.
Helma Sanders-Brahms. “…desto ferner sieht es zurück. Die Patriotin von Alexander Kluge.” Film und Fernsehen . 1 (1992): 10 – 12.
Recommended Reading : Stuart Liebman, “Why Kluge?” October , 46 (1988): 5 – 22. Ereserves
Philip Rosen. “History, Textuality, Nation: Kracauer, Burch, and Some Problems in the Study of National Cinemas.” Iris II/2 (1984): 69-84. Ereserves
Barton Byg. “DEFA and the Traditions of International Cinema.” Ed. Catherine Fowler. The European Cinema Reader . London : Routledge, 2002. 153 – 161. Ereserves
Barton Byg. “Introduction: Reassessing DEFA Today.” Moving Images of East Germany : Past and Future of DEFA Film. Eds. Barton Byg and Betheny Moore. Harry and Helen Gray Humanities Program Ser. 12. Washington DC : American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and Johns Hopkins UP. 1 – 23. http://www.aicgs.org/Publications/PDF/gdr.pdf
Katie Trumpener, “DEFA: Moving Germany into Eastern Europe .” Moving Images of East Germany : Past and Future of DEFA Film. Eds. Barton Byg and Betheny Moore. Harry and Helen Gray Humanities Program Ser. 12. Washington DC : American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and Johns Hopkins UP. 85 – 104. http://www.aicgs.org/Publications/PDF/gdr.pdf
Andreas Dresen and Erika Richter. “Mann muss versuchen nicht ganz soviel Angst zu haben, wie man wirklich hat.” Film und Fernsehen. 25.5/6 (1997): 7 – 15. Ereserves
Erika Richter. “Ula Stoeckl - Frauenfilm – Pionierin und öffentliche Ruhestörerin.” Film und Fernsehen. 27.3/4 (1999): 62 – 65. Ereserves |
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7 & 9:15 p.m.
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Film Screenings: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall Wittstock, Wittstock . Germany , Volker Koepp, 1997. 117 minutes. 16 mm. Grill Point [Halbe Treppe]. Germany , Andreas Dresen, 2002. 106 minutes. 16 mm. |
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Tuesday July 12 |
Hitler as Heritage Film? |
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9 a.m. – 12 p.m. |
Neilson Browsing Room
Discussion of Films
Reading : Lutz Koepnick. “Reframing the Past: Heritage Cinema and Holocaust in the 1990s.” New German Critique . 87 (Fall 2002): 47 – 82.
Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer. Shattered Past . Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2003. Chapter 11.
Recommended Reading : Johannes von Moltke. “Heimat and History: Viehjud Levi.” New German Critique . 87 (Fall 2002): 83 - 106. Ereserves
Additional articles from New German Critique: special issue on Postwall Cinema 87 (Fall 2002). You can access this journal electronically through the Smith College library catalog.
Julia Hell. “Eyes Wide Shut: German Post-Holocaust Authorship.” New German Critique . 88 (Winter, 2003): 9-36. Ereserves
Patrick Wright. Excerpts. On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain . London : Verso, 1985. Ereserves |
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2:30 p.m. |
Film Screenings: The Academy of Music .
Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary . Austria, André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer, 2002. 90 minutes. 35 mm. |
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7:30 p.m. |
Film Screening: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
Downfall . Germany , Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004. 156 minutes. |
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Wednesday July 13 Historical Geography/Archaeology and Film. |
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9 a.m. – 12 p.m. |
Neilson Browsing Room
Discussion of films
Recommended Reading : Additional Articles from special issue of New German Critique on East German Film 82 (2001). You can access this journal electronically through the Smith College library catalog.
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7 p.m. |
Film Screenings: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
Too Early, Too Late . France/Egypt, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 1981. 100 minutes. 16 mm. O logischer Garten . FRG, Ingo Kratisch & Jutta Sartory, 1988. 85 minutes. 16 mm. |
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Thursday July 14 |
Representation, Documentation, and Holocaust Memory |
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9 a.m. – 12 p.m. |
Seelye 110
Discussion of films Reading : Saul Friedlander. “Trauma and Transference.” Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews in Europe . Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993. 117-137. Ereserves
Recommended Reading : Special issue of New German Critique on Taboo, Trauma, Holocaust . 90 (Fall 2003). You can access this journal electronically through the Smith College library catalog. |
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1 p.m. |
Film Screening: 1:00 p.m. Graham Auditorium Death is My Trade [Aus einem deutschen Leben] . FRG, Theodor Kotulla, 1977. 145 minutes. Format TBA |
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3:30 |
Coffee Break |
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4 p.m. |
Graham Auditorium Lecture: Eva Brücker Visual Documents and the Holocaust |
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7:30 p.m. |
Film Screening: Graham Auditorium Verdict on Auschwitz. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 1963-65 [Gericht über Auschwitz. Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess.] Germany, Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner. 2004. 60 minutes. DVD. Followed by panel discussion with Eva Brücker, Sigrid Bauschinger, Karen Remmler, and Katie Trumpener. Moderated by Barton Byg. |
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Friday July 15 |
Post- and Transnational Approaches to German Cinema |
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9 a.m. – 12 p.m. |
Seelye 110 Discussion of films Randall Halle. “German Film, Aufgehoben: Ensembles of Transnational Cinema.” New German Critique . 87 (Fall 2002): 7 - 46. Revisit Göktürk (see Week I.)
Recommended Reading : Jutta Brückner and Erika Richter. “Ich musste den Körper rekonstruieren.” Film und Fernsehen. 4/5 (1994): 4 – 19. Ereserves Andreas Huyssen, “Diaspora and Nation. Migration Into Other Pasts.” New German Critique . 88 (Winter 2003): 147 – 164. Ereserves Special issue of New German Critique on Multicultural Germany : Art, Performance and Media . 92 (Spring/Summer 2004). You can access this journal electronically through the Smith College library catalog. |
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1:30 p.m. |
Film Screenings: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall. 1:30 p.m. Redupers . Helke Sander, FRG, 1978. 95 minutes. 16 mm. 3:15 p.m. The Hunger Years . Jutta Brückner, FRG, 1980. 113 minutes. 16 mm. |
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