Teaching Kafka: description
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More than anyone else’s the writings of Franz Kafka have inspired Arts and Humanities all over the world and provoked interpretative and didactic activities. Kafka invites new reading experiences and perspectives in an extreme form and therefore is predestinated for an interpretation from different points of view and with the help of different forms of art. Today not only literary critics and German teachers, but more and more, film directors and other artists present their view of Kafka’s texts.
The seminar is going to take up the didactic impulse and to further develop the intercultural learning process started in a cultural exchange programme in 2006/07 between Munich University and the German Department of Pune University/India and its theatre project KAFKAESK, some of whom will be invited. It was the first time ever, that a student theatre group from India performed Kafka in German language.
The aim of the seminar is to find out, whether Kafka’s short parabolic texts ask for different ways of teaching in different countries, and to experience different cultural views on Kafka by working with modern didactic methods like e.g. creative writing, dramatic interpretation or additional forms of visualization.
Some of the places are reserved for students from LMU Munich who will be teachers of German; the others are open to international students, who are interested. The seminar will be held in German language. Applicants must be prepared to present one German literary text about Venice and to discuss its didactic potential.
