German

In this class on the B1 level according to CEFR, students learn to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. They deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling to an area where German is spoken. Students learn to produce simple connected texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest. They acquire skills to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. The B1 level is split into two courses, the B1.1 course covers the first half of the level and the B1.2 course covers the second half of the level.

This lecture analyzes the three basic factors that have influenced modern Jewish identity: enlightenement, anti-Semitism, and Zionism. It examines the changes of how Jewish identity is understood. A special focus is placed on the differentiation of cultural or national and religious identity with an emphasis on feminism and queerness. Gender relations are examined within their respective religious, cultural, and social contexts. Social history and the history of the common man is discussed and a special focus is placed on the active participation of Jewish women in society as well as the intellectual and artistic life within European nation states.

Even if Friedrich Nietzsche liked to see himself as a "flame" leaping out of nothing and leaving only "ashes" behind him, his writings are integrated into philological and philosophical traditions. The list of his declared friends and enemies is long, as is the list of books he acquired or borrowed. Nietzsche's work cannot be thought of without antiquity, without Schopenhauer and without the confrontation with contemporary aesthetic and philosophical positions. In this respect, his work has a prehistory, but not only this: it has also experienced a turbulent reception history from turn-of-the-century aesthetics through the world wars and fascism to postmodernism, which often has little to do with Nietzsche's actual texts. In this lecture, selected passages from Nietzsche's work are subjected to a reading and examined for their influences in order to confront them with their history of impact. From the point of view of literary studies and aesthetics, the focus is on the early aesthetic writings around the BIRTH OF TRAGEDY, DIE FRÖHLICHE WISSENSCHAFT, ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA, as well as Nietzsche's own poetry.

In this class on the B1 level according to CEFR, students learn to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. They deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling to an area where German is spoken. Students learn to produce simple connected texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest. They acquire skills to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. The B1 level is split into two courses, the B1.1 course covers the first half of the level and the B1.2 course covers the second half of the level.