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Lecturer(s)
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Němec Miroslav, doc. Dr. phil.
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Course content
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Introduction Landscape, home, borders and desire Back Pomerania: A German-Polish Landscape of Remembrance How was Silesia "mentally" colonized after the Second Wordl War? Home as a variable in Central Europe Home as a temptation Transnistria - the Shoah stage in the literature of Egar Hilsenrath "In the Garden of Childhood" - Central European Landscapes in Michael Zeller?s Images of the "Sudetenland" after the Second World War Places forgotten and rediscovered by literature "By the Stone Sea" Czech-German novel Final discussion
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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Participants will have the opportunity to listen to papers by foreign scholars, writers and journalists whose common denominator is the literary depiction or grasp of the "landscape of home" or, conversely, of human "uprootedness due to the loss of home". Geographically, the papers deal with Central and Eastern Europe, plagued during the 20th century by forced deportations, the destruction of homes, forced migrations, but the experience of creating new homes. Does the literature offer ways of escaping the horrors and dangers and thereby finding a place of security and safety?
- thinking about the categories of home, losing home and building it - the possibilities of fictionalising home in literature - recognise the difference between reality and fiction - learn about historical German-speaking landscapes and their cultural heritage - improve communicative competence
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Active participation and summary of one of the papers
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Recommended literature
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Hülz, Martina, Kühne, Olaf, Weber, Florian (edd.). Heimat : ein vielfältiges Konstrukt. Wiesbaden, 2019.
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Mirek Němec. Sudeten/Sudety als deutsch-tschechisches Palimpsest. Bohemia : Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der böhmischen Länder., 2013.
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Thorsten Carstensen / Oliver Kohns (Edd). Heimat in Literatur und Kultur. Paderborn, 2023.
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