Weimar Culture: The Roaring Twenties and the Rise of Nazism
Germany - Berlin
August 1 - 30, 2008
Course Information
This Program carries a total of 8 units. Enrolled students must take both courses listed. Auditing is not an option.
- Course Syllabus
- GER 118B (4 units)
Weimar Culture: Defeat, the Roaring Twenties, the Rise of Nazism
Knowledge of German not required. Expressionism in graphic arts, literature, film, New Objectivitiy, Brecht and Bauhaus considered in the context of the failure of the German experiment in democracy, the Weimar Republic of 1919-33. Offered in alternate years.
GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
- GER 198 (4 units)
P/NP Grading
Directed Group Study
GE credit: None
Required Texts
Textbooks
- Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (1928), trans. Ralph Manheim and John Willett Arcade Publishing ISBN: 1-55970-252-4
- Course Reader consisting of selections from The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, ed. Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg (1995) and other readings:
- Marieluise Fleiβer, Purgatory in Ingolstadt (1926) (in Course Reader)
- Thomas Mann, “Mario and the Magician” (1929) (in Course Reader)
We will also view the following films in class
- Robert Wiene (dir.), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
- Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel (1930)
- Fritz Lang, M (1931)
- G.W. Pabst, The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Ordering / Bookstore Information
You can purchase your books from the UC Davis MU Bookstore or another bookseller online. If you are mail-ordering your books, make sure to order them from the bookstore by June 1, ensuring you get them before you depart. You cannot get books sent to your address abroad. Instructions on how to order books from the bookstore are located at https://bookstore.ucdavis.edu/textbooks/.
Course Reader
The course will use a course reader. The cost is included in the program cost. All participants will receive their course readers with their orientation materials.
Travel Guide
Summer Abroad is supplying copies of Lonely Planet Berlin and Lonely Planet Germeny travel guides. Participants will get their guidebooks at the May 17th orientation. If you are unable to attend the orientation (non-Davis students), we will mail your guidebook with the orientation materials.
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