Masters Degrees (Modern Foreign Languages)

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    Nachwendefilme über die DDR im Kontext einer Arbeit mit Erinnerungsorten im kulturwissenschaftlich orientierten Landeskundeunterricht DaF/DaZ - "Sonnenallee", "Good Bye, Lenin!" & "Das Leben der Anderen"
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03) Acker, Diana; Annas, Rolf; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT : "Post-reunification films about the former GDR within the context of working with places of remembrance in cultural study based classes in German as a Foreign and as a Second Language - "'Sonnenallee', 'Good Bye, Lenin!' and 'Das Leben der Anderen'." This thesis looks at three recent German post-reunification films about the former GDR and discovers links to current historical knowledge in terms of the cultural and communicative memory of a society which is reproduced and manifested in places of memory. Therefore these films are analysed as such places in terms of new concepts in cultural science based German Studies that make German culture available as knowledge and furthermore the study tries to suggest steps to decode the language and its cultural concepts. By looking at different symbols in the films, in comments of the directors and the press as well as at the distribution and ratings, these films can be used as an example of three different “memories” in current German society which provide insights into the present communication in Germany. These most popular movies about the GDR are examples how cultural knowledge is debatted and selected for the cultural memory and can be prepared for german learners to participate in recent discourses that helps them to find a cultural position.