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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
general & compar. literature
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Jan Kuehne
Coordinator Office Hours:
We 13:00-14:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Jan Kuehne
Course/Module description:
The course studies academic and poetic discourses on poetic representations of the Holocaust in the context of Theodor Adorno’s remark, that to „write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.“ (1951) Reverberations of this remark, its shifting formulations, as well as seminal examples of poetry after 1945 will be studied with a focus on multilinguality, e.g. from Paul Celan to contemporary Hebrew poetry in Berlin. Jean Paul Sartres’ 1947 treatise ”What is literature?“ will serve as theoretical and philosophical point of comparison for this course.
Course/Module aims:
The course aims at understanding the aesthetical, philosophical, and ethical problems of artistic representation of the Holocaust.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Distinguish seminal German post-war poets.
- Identify intertextual references in their historical, biographical and philosophical contexts.
- Understand relationships between poetry and socio-cultural criticism, in the thought of Adorno.
- Understand and describe the effect of a specific use of language as a performative act.
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures, discussions, collective close reading, class presentation and related final paper.
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction: Poetry after Auschwitz
2. Theoretical Texts (Part 1): Jean-Paul Sartre, Theodor W. Adorno
3. Theoretical Texts (Part 2): Theodor W. Adorno, Georges Steiner
4. Theoretical Texts (Part 3): Theodor W. Adorno, Paul Celan
5. Paul Celan: Selected Poetry and Prose
6. German-Jewish Literature in Palestine/ Israel: Selected Poems by Ilana Shmueli, Haim Shneider, a.o.
7. German Poetry Salon in Israel – The LYRIS-Circle, Documentary Movie
8. Multilingual German-Hebrew Encounters: Selected Poems by Ludwig Strauss, Yehuda Amichai, Tuvia Rübner, Manfred Winkler, a.o.
9. Selected Yiddish, Russian, and Arabic Poems
10. The Hebrew Library in Berlin: Selected Poems
11. Student Presentations
12. Student Presentations
13. Conclusion: Cultural Production after Auschwitz
Required Reading:
The course will be accompanied by a reader, which contains all poems. Secondary readings will be made available electronically.
Additional Reading Material:
Sartre, Jean-Paul: What is Literature? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).
Adorno, Theodor W and Rolf Tiedemann: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A philosophical Reader. (Stanford University Press, 2003).
DeKoven-Ezrahi, Sidra: „Writing Poetry after Auschwitz – Paul Celan as the Last Barbarian“. Booking Passage – Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 141–56.
Engel, Amir: „Renewal in the Shadow of the Catastrophe: Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan in Germany“. German Studies Review 39, Nr. 2 (2016), 297–314.
Kühne, Jan: „Deutschsprachige jüdische Literatur in Palästina/Israel“. Handbuch der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur, Ed. Horch, Hans Otto (Oldenbourg: DeGruyter, 2015), 201–20.
Eshel, Amir and Na’ama Rokem: „Berlin and Jerusalem: Toward German-Hebrew Studies“. The German-Jewish Experience Revisited 3 (2015).
Cohen, Hadas and Dani Kranz: „Israeli Jews in the New Berlin: From Shoah Memories to Middle Eastern Encounters“. Berlin: An Anthology, Ed. Hosek, Jennifer Ruth and Karin Bauer (Oxford: Berghahn, 2017).
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 35 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 55 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Students can choose the topic of their projects from texts dealt with in class, or suggest own topics, if in reasonable relation to the seminar.
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