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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Survey of Themes: 1. Defining the concepts of migration forms (escape, ejection, forcible /compulsory transfer, expatriation, resettlement, deportation, evacuation) and the concepts of the terminology of literary scholarship (exile literature, migration literature, "Heimatliteratur", "Vertriebenenliteratur", "Vertreibungsliteratur"). 2. Literary works from the Sudeten German "Podkrkonoší" - Josef Mühlberger. 3. Poetic and prosaic autobiographic works of Annelies Schwarz concerning ejection of Sudeten German inhabitants from Northern and North Western Bohemia 4. The Picture of the 20th century Northern Bohemia in the novel Vertreibung aus dem Paradies der Kindheit by Emil Karl Stöhr and the works written by Margarete Kubelková and Otfried Preußler. 5. The post-war events in Ústí nad Labem as reflected in the work of Isolde Heyne (the novel Gewitterblumen) and Marianne Wintersteiner (the novelette Elischka). 6. The picture of southern and south western Bohemia from the viewpoint of the 20th century migration forms - literary works of Sidonia Dedina (Als die Tiere starben), Margarete Kraus (Himmel über Pichlern), Heribert Rück (Wege und Zeichen) and Gertrud Fussenegger. 7. "The Bohemian Trilogy" ( "Böhmische Trilogie") written by Josef Holub - a literary picture from the years 1938-1948 in Czech-Bavarian cross-border areas. 8. Gudrun Pausewang´s contribution to Czech -German reconciliation (literary analysis of the trilogy "Rosinkawiese" and the novel Auf einem langen Weg). 9. The works of Moravian female novelists Olga Barényi (Prager Totentanz) and Erica Pedretti (Engste Heimat). 10. The destinies of German inhabitants of Brno, the so called Brno Death March" (Brünner Todesmarsch). The works of Peter Härtling and Hugo Fritsch. (Hugo Fritsch: Hugo, das Delegationskind/Zůstal jsem sám. Bylo mi 13). 11. Härtling´s fateful life and literary theme in his works written for adults readers - analysis of the novel Große, kleine Schwester (Brno, drahé Brno/Brno, Dear Brno). 12. Härtling´s works for children and youth with the themes of escape and ejection. 13. The theme of the loss of the mother country, forcible transfer and ejection in the North Bohemian borderland in literature of the 21st century as seen by post-war generations: Reinhard Jirgl: Die Unvollendeten (2003), Jörg Bernig: Niemandszeit (2002). 14. Literary reflection of the destinies of Sudeten-German inhabitants and a picture of the Czech borderland between the years 1945 and 1948 in modern Czech literature (Kateřina Tučková: Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, Zdeněk Šmíd: Cejch, Jan Procházka: Ať žije republika/ Long Live the Republic).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The seminar is a thematically focused follows-up of the umbrella course "Theory and Methods of Intercultural Research" and the following historically focused courses: "The History of the Germans in the Czech Lands in the 19th and the first half of 20th century" and "The End of Czech-German Co-habitation in North Western Bohemia". The Sudeten German inhabitants represented for centuries inseparable part of the historical, political and artistic development of the Czech lands. Along with the end of the Second World War and the post-war development of Europe the continuity of mutual Czech-German language and cultural transfer was interrupted. This course is focused on literary reflection of the forcible transfer and ejection of Sudeten German inhabitants, with the conception being understood both interdisciplinary and regionally. These issues and problems are looked at from the literary and historical and social and historical point of views, with stress being put on specific features of the Bohemian and Saxon cross-border country. The most significant part of the course will be devoted to analyses and interpretations of the works associated with the above-mentioned issues; with contemporary Czech literature being taken into consideration as well.
The core of this branch of science will be seen in literary analyses and interpretation of texts and at the same time students will be extending their knowledge about German literature in the Czech-German intercultural and interdisciplinary context on the basis of reading /studying primary and secondary texts, they will also improve their interpretative and argumentative skills.
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Prerequisites
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"Theory and methods of intercultural research"
KGER/0938
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Active participation in the seminars based on regular reading the works of primary literature, an oral presentation, or a seminar paper.
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Recommended literature
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Dornemann, A. Flucht und Vertreibung aus den ehemaligen deutschen Ostgebieten in Prosaliteratur und. Stuttgart, 2005.
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Feuchert, S. (Hg.). Flucht und Vertreibung in der deutschen Literatur. Frankfurt am Main, 2001.
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Helbig, L. F. Der ungeheure Verlust. Flucht und Vertreibung in der deutschsprachigen Belletristik. Wiesbaden, 1996.
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Kroll, F.-L. Flucht und Vertreibung in der Literatur nach 1945. Berlin, 1997.
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Mehnert, E. (Hg.). Landschaften der Erinnerung. Flucht und Vertreibung aus deutscher, polnischer und. Frankfurt am Main, 2001.
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Schneiß, W. Flucht, Vertreibung und verlorene Heimat im früheren Ostdeutschland. Beispiele. Frankfurt am Main, 1996.
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