UNC German Studies Consortium

Spring 2005

German Expressionism in Liturature and Art (3.0 sh)

Instructor:  Andreas Lixl (Professor of German, andreas_lixl@uncg.edu  Tel 336-334-5427)

Thursdays 3:15-5:45 p.m.

Description: The course focuses on German Expressionism is a literary and artistic movement that emphasized subjective experiences and emotions over materialist standards. Artists like Kokoschka, Marc, and Kandinsky, and writers like Brecht, Toller, and Lasker-Schüler gained significance between the turn of the century and 1925, an era of dramatic political, cultural, and artistic turbulence in Europe.