Week

Lecture or Seminar

1

LECTURE 1: Introduction to the course

LECTURE 2: Themes and issues in

Weimar history and culture

2

LECTURE 1:  Political parties and social groups

LECTURE 2: Political parties (contd.);

phases of Weimar history

3

SEMINARS: Strengths and weaknesses of the Republic

(How were different social groups affected by the system?)

4

LECTURES: Brecht's poetry in the 1920s

5

SEMINAR 1: Brecht's nature poetry and love poetry

SEMINAR 2: Brecht's city poetry

6

SEMINARS:  Brecht’s politically committed poetry

7

LECTURES (Slide Illustrations): The Bauhaus

8

SEMINARS: The Bauhaus

9

LECTURE: War Literature

SEMINAR: Remarque, Im Westen nichts Neues

10

SEMINARS: Remarque, Im Westen nichts Neues

                      Jünger, Feuer und Blut