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Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following
activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S008346

Coordinator

Elisa Destro

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/13 - GERMAN LITERATURE

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 15, 2021 al May 29, 2021.

Learning outcomes

This course’s aim is to offer an introduction to the German Language Literature of the twentieth-century. At the end of the course students will be able to understand and explain the texts discussed during the lessons, to comment both their authors and their aesthetical style, to situate them in the historical, cultural and literary context of German twentieth-century.

Program

The course is held in Italian and is structured in a single module. The texts are first introduced in Italian and their most significant parts are then analysed in German.

During the course will be discussed the following texts:
- Thomas Mann: La morte a Venezia, Tonio Kröger (Oscar Mondadori) / Der Tod in Venedig (Reclam), Tonio Kröger (Reclam);
- Franz Kafka: Lettera al padre (Oscar Mondadori), Tutti i racconti (Oscar Mondadori): La condanna e La metamorfosi / Brief an den Vater (Reclam), Das Urteil (Reclam), Die Verwandlung (Reclam);
- Rainer Maria Rilke (selected poems);
- Georg Trakl (selected poems);
- Gottfried Benn (selected poems);
- Bertolt Brecht: Scritti teatrali (selected texts), Madre Courage e i suoi figli / Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Einaudi), A coloro che verranno / An die Nachgeborenen (copy provided during the course);
- Paul Celan: Fuga di morte / Todesfuge (copy provided during the course);
- Ingeborg Bachmann (selected poems);
- Peter Weiss: L’istruttoria (Einaudi)/ Die Ermittlung (Suhrkamp).

Students are expected to choose and read one of the following texts on their own:
- Heinrich Böll: Biliardo alle nove e mezzo (Oscar Mondadori) / Billard um halb zehn (dtv)
- Günter Grass: Il tamburo di latta (Feltrinelli) / Die Blechtrommel (Reclam)
- Christa Wolf: Il cielo diviso (Edizioni E/O) / Der geteilte Himmel (dtv)
- Peter Handke: Infelicità senza desideri (Garzanti) / Wunschloses Unglück (Suhrkamp)
- Thomas Bernhard: L’origine (Adelphi) / Die Ursache (dtv).

Copies of the selected poems and texts will be provided during the course.
Handbook: Marino Freschi, La letteratura tedesca (2008).
Non-attending students are kindly requested to contact the professor.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Marino Freschi La letteratura tedesca Il Mulino 2008
Thomas Mann La morte a Venezia; Tristano; Tonio Kroeger Oscar Mondadori  
Franz Kafka Lettera al padre Oscar Mondadori  
Peter Weiss L'istruttoria Einaudi  
Bertold Brecht Madre Courage e i suoi figli Einaudi  
Franz Kafka Tutti i racconti Oscar Mondadori 2017

Examination Methods

The final exam will be oral and held in Italian. The oral exam will cover the whole programme and it will consist in a conversation aimed at testing:
- the depth and width of the acquired knowledge;
- the ability to understand and analyse literary texts;
- the ability to discuss and connect different topics in a historic, cultural and literary perspective.
The final mark will be in 30ths.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE