Course No.: Hist. 520 Course Title: Weimar Republic: Politics and Culture Professor: Fr. Richard Rolfs S.J.

Bauhaus, Germany

Course description (principal topics covered):

An in depth study of Weimar Germany between 1918 and the advent of the Third Reich, 1933. The study includes the history of a period in which literature, art, music, drama, architecture, and film contributed to the socio-political development of Republican Germany. A period when the “outsiders” became the “insiders”, and struggled to keep the infant Republic form succumbing to the forces of reaction. No study of modern Germany can be complete without tarnished with the rise of the new-conservatives, and eventually fell into the decay of Nazism.

Prerequisites/Recommended Background:

History 101 plus at least one upper division European History course.
 

Required Texts/ References:
 

•  M. Esslin, Brecht
•  T. Mann, Magic Mountain
•  Krakauer, From Caligari to Hitler
•  H. Fallada, Little Man, What Now?

Course work/ Expectations:

Course consists of some lectures. Students are expected to prepare the reading assignments, and participate in weekly discussions. A term paper is required, which is based upon a topic agreed upon between students and professor. Students will also be responsible for presenting an oral report on the selected term paper topic.

Comments:

This fulfills the senior seminar requirement for history majors.