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GRMN 6669

German Love Poetry

German Love Poetry

This course focuses on love poems from three centuries; from Goethe to Enzensberger, from Droste-Hülshoff bis Mayröcker. One focus will be on “poetic couples” who engaged in the dialogue of love via poems: Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler; Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.

Required Texts: Es schlug mein Herz.” Deutsche Liebeslyrik. Hg. Hans Wagener. (reclam, 2005)
Subject:
German
Department:
German
Division:
Language School
Requirements Fulfilled:
Literature

Sections in Summer 2010, LS 3 Week Session I

Summer 2010, LS 6 Week Session

GRMN6669A-L10 Lecture (Koch-Overath)