| Course title | Viennese Modernist Plays and Relevant Discourses around 1900 |
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| Course code | KGER/0957 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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Block 1: 90-Minute Lecture Introduction to the most important discourses and literary movements around 1900, lives and works of playwrights (Hermann Bahr, Marie Eugenie delle Grazie, Juliane Déry, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler) Block 2: 90-Minute Seminar Discourses and aesthetics in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's one-act-play Am Ende (1897), Hermann Bahr's comedy Das Konzert (1909) Block 3: 90-Minute Seminar Discourses and aesthetics in Marie Eugenie delle Grazie's tragedy Schlagende Wetter (1900) and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's mystery play Jedermann (1911) Block 4: 90-Minute Seminar Discourses and aesthetics in Juliane Déry's one-act-play Es fiel ein Reif (1896) and Arthur Schnitzler's one-act-play-cycle Reigen (1903)
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The block course gives an overview of important plays of Viennese modernism and relates them to relevant discourses. It provides information on lives and works of important male and female playwrights and on literary life in Vienna around 1900. Furthermore, it expounds the great aesthetic variety of modernist drama.
Die Studierenden bekommen einen Überblick über die bedeutendsten Dramen und gesellschaftspolitischen Diskurse der Wiener Moderne. Sie lernen die literarischen Texte kennen und interpretieren. |
| Prerequisites |
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None
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
Students are expected to carefully prepare the texts provided in a reader and to participate in the seminar. In groups, they should work out specific aspects of the topic the results of which are presented to the plenary. The texts are then discussed in detail. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Science | Study plan (Version): - (A14) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): German Language and Literature (A14) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Language and Literature (Double-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): German Language and Literature (A14) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Intercultural German Studies (A14) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): German Language and Literature (A14) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |