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Max Frisch and Friedrich Duerrenmatt II: End-time scenarios and visions of destruction

Max Frisch und Friedrich Dürrenmatt II: Endzeit-Szenarien und Untergangsvisionen

851-0306-00L 2004S , 2005S 2 Credits

Duerrenmatt is known as a “painter of disaster,” not only as an artist, but equally as an author and playwright. Max Frisch still uses exploding water heaters, howling sirens, and a fire-reddened sky to show yet another spectacular downfall.

2004S

Filmed Theatre: Three plays by Max Frisch

Verfilmtes Theater: Drei Stücke von Max Frisch

851-0306-03L 2008S 2 Credits DS D-GESS

To read a theatrical text is one thing, to see the play on stage is another. Transmission of a theatrical production by film would be a third possibility. Using the example of three plays by the author Max Frisch, this third form of expression is compared to the respective texts.

Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Max Frisch und Friedrich Dürrenmatt

851-0307-00L 2003W , 2004W 2 Credits

How often they were annoyed about their twin-like fate! Ever since the end of the ‘50s, Frisch and Duerrenmatt were known to literary critics as well as to German-speaking readers and theater audiences as Castor and Pollux, the twins from Greek myth. In a 1961 interview, Frisch commented on this situation: “What else can we do but be friends?”

2003W

Literature and Film II: Comparative views of selected detective stories and their film versions

Literatur und Film II: Betrachtungen ausgewählter Kriminalgeschichten und deren Verfilmung

851-0309-02L 2006W 2 Credits DS D-GESS

Subject of these second lectures "Literature and Film" are detective novels and their film versions by four Swiss authors. The texts are different with regard to the contents, style and time of origin. Common to all is their literary quality.

Literature and Film: Bewilderments

Literatur und Film: Verstörungen

851-0309-03L 2007W 2 Credits DS D-GESS

Comparative views of three selected literary works and their film versions.

Literature and Film: Comparative views of selected literary works and their film versions

Literatur und Film: Vergleichende Betrachtungen ausgewählter liter. Werke und deren Verfilmungen

851-0309-00L 2005W 2 Credits

Film versions of literature have existed as long there have been films. Equally old are the controversies concerning whether turning literature into film is at all permissible and justified.

Literature and Film: Comparative views of selected literary works and their film versions

Literatur und Film: Vergleichende Betrachtungen ausgewählter liter. Werke und deren Verfilmungen

851-0309-01L 2005W 2 Credits

Film versions of literature have existed as long there have been films. Equally old are the controversies concerning whether turning literature into film is at all permissible and justified.

Literature in the Light of the "Two Culture"-Thesis / I

Literatur im Lichte der "Zwei Kulturen"-These / I

851-0309-04L 2008W 2 Credits DS D-GESS

This course examines two literary works of modern times with the "Two Cultures" thesis by the English physicist and novelist Charles P. Snow and its discussion from the sixties until today.The subtitles are:1. "Max Frisch's HOMO FABER and Maxwells demon"2. "Bertolt Brecht's GALILEO and the nuclear fission"

Max Frisch I: From journalism to writing

Max Frisch I: Vom Journalist zum Schriftsteller

851-0306-01L 2006S 2 Credits

In the thirties Max Frisch worked as a freelancer journalist. His articles about local topics, his book reviews and short stories soon made clear, that these were finger exercises, preliminary literary studies of a young man becoming a writer.The course will follow the branched path of this self-discovery process using biographical elements and selected texts.

Max Frisch II: Go away and return home in the work and the life of Max Frisch

Max Frisch II: Vom Weggehen und Heimkehren in Werk und Leben

851-0306-02L 2007S 2 Credits DS D-GESS

In the way water flows towards the Ocean Max Frisch saw a hidden invitation to follow his own inner watercourse way, to give in to his longing for wide open skies and distant horizons. He once called this feeling “homesickness for foreign lands.”Based on his texts and the stations of his life, it is to be shown here how he himself and some of his characters were molded by these emotions.