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Course: German Cultural Studies: History - Seminar

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Course title German Cultural Studies: History - Seminar
Course code KGN/KS20
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Cahová Ivana, Mgr. PhD.
Course content
Topics: Jews in Moravia Olomouc as a model of a provincial cultural centre Czech and German Olomouc theatre Personalities from the friends of Paul Engelmann(Max Zweig, Peter Engelmann, Bernhard Reich, Heinrich Groag, Anna Groag, Fridrich Pater) Olomouc branch of Jednota filozofická(J. L. Fischer, O.F. Babler)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
Learning outcomes
The seminar is meant to be a cultural-historical probe into the environment of Jewish Olomouc of the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century proving that not only Prague was a place where three cultures: Czech, German and Jewish used to meet. The course will mainly be focused on the significant personalities of the Olomouc intelligentsia and culture. The participants of the course will also acquire knowledge of general Jewish tradition and the history of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia.
Students will acquire overview of the general situation of the Jewish community in the Czech lands in the late 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries with the stress on the cultural and social development within the framework of the Moravian urban centre Olomouc. They will work with the texts of the Olomouc and regional authors and get to know the particularities of the German-Czech-Jewish cultural encounters in the provincial cultural centre. The course is a part of the Jews in Moravia module.
Prerequisites
The course is open for students of Jewish Studies and also for all interested students from different study programs.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Didactic Test, Dialog, Seminar Work

Credit. Presentation to the specified topic.
Recommended literature
  • (1981). Přehledné dějiny české literatury a divadla v Olomouci. Praha.
  • Brandes, Detlef. (2005). Der Weg zur Vertreibung 1938 - 1945. Pläne und Entscheidungen zum "Transfer" der Deutschen aus der Tschechoslowakei und aus Polen. München.
  • Brandt, Ahasver von. (2007). Werkzeug des Historikers. Eine Einführung in die Historischen Hilfswissenschaften. Stuttgart.
  • Brunn, Gerhard. (2002). Die europäische Einigung. Stuttgart.
  • Burckhardt, Jacob. (1995). Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Essen.
  • Duchhardt, Heinz. (2003). Europa am Vorabend der Moderne 1650-1800. Stuttgart.
  • Elias, Norbert. (1997). Über den Prozess der Zivilisation. 2. Bd.. Frankfurt a.M.
  • Fisch, Jörg. (2002). Europa im Zeitalter von Wachstum und Gleichheit 1850-1914. Stuttgart.
  • Gellner, Ernest. (1991). Nationalismus und Moderne. Berlin.
  • Goetz, Hans Werner. (2000). Proseminar Geschichte: Mittelalter. Stuttgart.
  • Görtemaker, Manfred. (1999). Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. München.
  • Gründer, Horst. (2000). Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien. Paderborn.
  • Hobsbawm, Eric. (1998). Das Zeitalter der Extreme. Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart.
  • Kocka, Jürgen. (2001). Das lange 19. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart.
  • Kolb, Eberhard. (1984). Die Weimarer Republik. München.
  • Müller, Winfried. (2002). Die Aufklärung. München.
  • Padberg, Lutz E. von. (2006). Christianisierung im Mittelalter. Darmstadt.
  • Pěkný, Tomáš. (2001). Historie Židů v Čechách a na Moravě. Praha, Sefer 2001. Praha.
  • Sellin, Volker. (2005). Einführung in die Geschichtswissenschaft. Göttingen.
  • Siemann, Wolfram. (1995). Vom Staatenbund zum Nationalstaat - Deutschland 1806-1871. München.
  • Sösemann, Bernd (Hrsg.). (2002). Der Nationalsozialismus und die deutsche Gesellschaft. München.
  • Štefanides, J. (2005). Deutschsprachiges Theater in Olmütz - ein Jubileum ohne Kontinuität? In Bodnaru, Adrian (ed.). Studii de literatura romana si comparata. Vol. XX-XXI/2004, s. 69-77.. Timisoara : Universitatea de Vest.
  • Štefanides, J. (2006). Německy mluvené divadlo v Olomouci - divadelní výročí bez kontinuity? In Sýkora, M. (ed.). Kontext(y). V. AUPO, s. 119-124.. Olomouc : Univerzita Palackého.
  • Topolská, L., Václavek, L. (2000). Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Literatur in Tschechien. Praha.
  • Wildt, Michael. (2008). Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus. Göttingen.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019_24) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2017) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Philology (2022) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 30.04.2025 23:58. Data created for academic year 2024/2025