GERM 82.07 On Literary Adaptations - How to become a Transformer

Bad books make good movies? This is the question in today’s Germany more than ever. Transforming bestsellers into films, series, graphic novels and radio plays has become the latest trend. This course deals with this relatively new phenomenon. Not only will we talk about what sets one media apart from the other; the works by Wolfgang Borchert, Günter Grass, Christine Nöstlinger, Marcel Beyer, W.G. Sebald, Timur Vermes and Volker Kutscher all deal with the Third Reich: But can visuals do the same as texts here? And what about the change of the concept of “German guilt” in the past 75 years? Taught in German.

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Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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