Literature and Society since 1945

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 6
• Convenor and tutor: Alexander Weber
• Assessment: a 3500-word essay (100%)

You will read a selection of the most popular and influential texts of West-German and Swiss literature since 1945 and examine them in the light of the post-war society from which they emerged.

Editions in English will be available, but you are encouraged to read texts in the original language as far as possible.

Indicative module content

• Heinrich Böll, Gruppenbild mit Dame
• Enzensberger, The Sinking of the Titanic
• Günter Grass, The Meeting at Teglte
• Wolfgang Koeppen, Das Treibhaus, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch
• Christa Wolf, Der geteilte Himmel