German Studies 348 - TOPICS CULT & LANG OF GERMANY

Topics course. What connection do trade and manufacturing have to German literature, music, art, architecture and film? In this course we investigate the reciprocal influence of culture and commerce in Germany from the Hanseatic League to the present, with attention to famous companies and products as well as to the current economic situation. Included are works by, for example, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Adolf Menzel, Theodor Fontane, Gerhart Hauptmann, Kathe Kollwitz, Bertolt Brecht and Heinrich Boll. Conducted in German.

Topic: Made in Germany: Culture and Commerce.