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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
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Table
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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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Robert Reimer and Reinhard Zachau
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