Literature-Culture-Media: German Literature After the Wall

Education facts

Code: LIVR81

<p>When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, it wasn’t just politics that changed - literature took new directions too. In this course, you’ll explore how German-speaking authors have portrayed identity, history, and social transformation in a reunified nation.</p><p>This course offers both broad and in-depth insights into German-language literature after 1989, with a focus on novels. You’ll read and analyse works that reflect how Germany’s history and culture have evolved since reunification.</p><p>You’ll learn how literature addresses questions of identity, memory, and reckoning with the past - and how it contributes to shaping a new cultural self-image in modern Germany. The course also provides tools to interpret and analyse texts from both literary-historical and narrative-theoretical perspectives.<br/></p>

Entry requirements

90 higher education credits in Literary Studies, specialising in General, English, French, German, Russian, Scandinavian or Spanish literature.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Literature-Culture-Media: German Literature After the Wall

  Lund University

  Lund

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %