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Berliner Spaziergange: Architektur, Literatur und Film

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Focus Item #: 02846
Author/Editor/Translator: Reinhard Zachau, Margit Sinka & Rolf Goebel
ISBN: 978-1-58510-284-6
Format: Paperback
pp: 224

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Description

Berliner Spaziergänge: Architektur, Literatur und Film offers a virtual walk through German history since Berlin in its many historical and architectural districts offers a condensed version of German history.  The book covers pivotal points of time in the history of Berlin. Architecture, films and excerpts are all used to investigate the city's rich literary history.

Features

The six walking tours in the book contain excerpts from various texts inform students about the neighborhood and time period they represent.  Each historical section begins with a description and explanations related to principal Berlin buildings in that neighborhood. The sections also provide summaries, excerpts, interpretations, and exercises about literary texts that explore the neighborhood.

*English language material for Berliner Spaziergänge, including maps, available by clicking here

Market

For intermediate courses in departments of German with a focus on Berlin, Berlin culture, German culture, taught in German.

About the Authors

Reinhard Zachau (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) Professor of German at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. His publications include books on Stefan Heym (1982, 2002,  with Peter Hutchinson), Hans Fallada (1990, 1998, 2000), Heinrich Böll (1994), and Wolfgang Koeppen's adaptation of Jakob Littner's holocaust memoir (English version 2000, with Kurt Grübler; German version 2002, with Roland Ulrich).  Zachau's latest book is an introduction to German film, German Culture Through Cinema (2005, with Robert Reimer). Zachau is also the author of numerous articles on nineteenth and twentieth century German and Austrian literature.

Margit M. Sinka (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Professor of German and Head of the German Section at Clemson University. She holds an M.A. from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. in German from the University of North Carolina. She has presented and published on medieval German epics, medieval mysticism, 19th century literature, genre studies (the German Novelle and Kurzgeschichte), pedagogy, 20th century prose, the Holocaust Memorial, contemporary Berlin discourses, and on post-1945 German film. She is currently focusing her research on Berlin studies, including the representation of Berlin in postwar cinema. Her teaching includes 19th and 20th century prose and drama, German film, visual culture, and post-1945 German culture. From 2001 to 2004 she was the post-secondary Southeast Representative on the Executive Council of the American Association of German Teachers.

Rolf J. Goebel (Ph.D, University of Maryland) teaches at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.  He has published on German modernism and contemporary literature, especially Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Durs Grünbein; the representation of metropolitan space, especially post-reunification Berlin; and cultural theory (cultural hermeneutics, postcolonialism, media competition). In addition to numerous articles and conference papers, he has published three books: Kritik und Revision: Kafkas Rezeption mythologischer, biblischer und historischer Traditionen (1986), Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse (1997), and Benjamin heute: Großstadtdiskurs, Postkolonialität und Flanerie zwischen den Kulturen (2001)

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