S. Theatralität - Performativität - Medialität: Screening Socialist Sexualities: East German Social Life on DEFA Celluloid Film
Dozent:innen: Dr. Grit WesserKurzname: 05.155.24_280
Kurs-Nr.: 05.155.24_280
Kurstyp: Seminar
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Dates:Intro/Welcome event: 6th December 2024 (online 1 SWS)
18/19th January and 25/26th January 2025
Empfohlene Literatur
Selected Readings:Frackman, Kyle and Fay Stewart (eds.) 2018. Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation. Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer.
Frackman, Kyle. 2022. Coming Out. Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer.
Heiduschke, Sebastian. 2013. East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
McLellan, Josie. 2011. Love in the Times of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schicker, Juliane. 2022. ‘Gender, Sex, and the Socialist Personality in Herrmann Zschoche's Sieben Sommersprossen (1978).’ Feminist German Studies. 38 (2): 26-49.
Stewart, Fay. 2017. ‘“Nicht so schnell!”: Female Sexuality and Socialism in DEFA Youth Films’. Colloquia Germanica. 50 (1): 35-54
Inhalt
This block seminar examines social life in late socialist East Germany through cinema films produced by the GDR state-owned film studio DEFA. It explores the depictions of intimacies, desires, sexualities and gender relations in four popular DEFA films of the 1970s and 1980s that are today considered to have gained cult status. Over two weekends students will explore these films ethnographically to gain an understanding of the aspirational and pragmatic approaches to sexual politics and their (un)intended consequences in the ‘dictatorship of love’ (Stefan Wolle). We will contextualise and critically analyse these cinematic representations and their reception in the GDR caught between the ideals of the state’s promoted socialist morality and the reality of people’s everyday life in ‘actually existing socialism’. This seminar comprises four parts:Day 1: Youth and First Love.
Sieben Sommersprossen. Directed by Hermann Zschoche. DEFA, 1978.
Day 2: Marriage and Divorce.
Die Legende von Paul und Paula. Directed by Heiner Carow. DEFA, 1973.
Day 3: Uncensored Desires.
Solo Sunny. Directed by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase. DEFA, 1980.
Day 4: Non-Heteronormativity.
Coming Out. Directed by Heiner Carow. DEFA, 1989.
Termine
| Datum (Wochentag) | Zeit | Ort |
|---|---|---|
| 06.12.2024 (Freitag) | 12:00 - 14:00 | Online Sitzung |
| 18.01.2025 (Samstag) | 10:15 - 14:45 | 01 411 P101 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 19.01.2025 (Sonntag) | 10:15 - 15:45 | 01 411 P101 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 25.01.2025 (Samstag) | 10:15 - 14:45 | 01 411 P101 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 26.01.2025 (Sonntag) | 10:15 - 15:45 | 01 411 P101 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |