Course: Czech-German Culture Relations

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Course title Czech-German Culture Relations
Course code KGER/CNKV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Petrbok Václav, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Cultural relations in the period before the "national revival" 2. "National revival", the triple role of language as a means of communication, culture and symbolism 3. Bilingualism and the role of provincial patriotism 4. Magazines and newspapers of the pre-March period 5. Revolution, Czechs and Germans 6. Newspapers in the second half of the 19th century 7. National agitation -association life 8. Museum 9. Theatres 10. Universities 11. Cultural mediators and their role 12. Newspapers in the interwar period 13. Twilight, crisis and the end of Czech-German coexistence

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The lecture and the seminar introduce the historically oriented Germanobohemistic literary and cultural science issues. It introduces with concrete examples the institutions of public and cultural life (theatres, museums, scientific institutions, universiry, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, societies and informal circles of authors, cafés, etc.) in which Czech-German intercultural exchange, the famous "meeting and encounter", but also silence or ostentatious ignorance took place. In addition to this, a whole plethora of personalities from Czech, German, Jewish and "Utraquist" backgrounds will be presented who contributed to this unusually fruitful, internally structured and systematic dialogue. Special attention will be paid to the North Bohemian region and Prague.
- gain an orientation on specific topics of cultural relations between Czech Germans and Czechs in the era of nationalism - learns to use terminology and methods of working with texts and secondary literature through concrete examples - deepen their knowledge of research perspectives and terminology in the field of intercultural German studies and Germanobohemistics
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active, participation in discussions during the seminar, preparation and presentation of a report or seminar paper
Recommended literature
  • Becheer, P. a kol. (vyd.). Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der böhmischen Länder. Stuttgart, 2017.
  • Csáky, M. Das Gedächtnis Zetraleuropas. Kulturelle und literarische Projektionen auf eine Region. Wien, 2019.
  • Krolop, K. Studie o německé literatuře. Praha, 2018.
  • Křen, J. (ed). Obraz Němců, Rakouska a Německa v české společnosti 19. a 20. století. Praha, 1998.
  • Macura, V. Znamení zrodu. Praha, 1995.


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