Magisterarbeit
Barbara Maher (Author), Vesna Kondrič Horvat (Mentor)

Abstract

This Master’s Thesis deals with an elaborate analysis of Birgit Vanderbeke’s novel, Geld oder Leben, which is a narrative about the life of a nameless female first-person narrator, from her early childhood in East Germany to her adolescence and adulthood in West Germany. With her coming of age, it soon becomes clear that she frowns upon capitalism and the obsession with money, and refuses to live in accordance with the capitalist norm which consequently sets the novel's critical tone towards capitalism and capitalist society. By including the historical events which had happened in this forty-year period and cleverly intertwining them with the narrative, it becomes clear that the novel cannot be fully comprehended nor correctly analyzed without some understanding of the historical period of the divided Germany and the insight into the two economic systems, socialism and capitalism. Since this novel also exhibits considerable potential for its integration into the interdisciplinary GFL- (literature) lessons at the grammar school level, the Master's Thesis offers a variety of suggestions and activities for exploring its teaching potential.

Keywords

Birgit Vanderbeke;Geld oder Leben;deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur;Pop-Literatur;Pop-Art;Geteiltes Deutschland;DDR;BRD;Sozialismus;Kapitalismus;Konsumgesellschaft;Literaturunterricht bei DaF.;

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Year of publishing:
Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
Organization: UM FF - Faculty of Arts
Publisher: [B. Maher]
UDC: 821.112.2.09(043.2)
COBISS: 100286723 Link will open in a new window
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Secondary language: Slovenian
Secondary title: The Literarization of Life in Birgit Vanderbeke’s Novel Geld Oder Leben and the Integration of the Novel into the Interdisciplinary GFL-Lessons
Secondary abstract: This Master’s Thesis deals with an elaborate analysis of Birgit Vanderbeke’s novel, Geld oder Leben, which is a narrative about the life of a nameless female first-person narrator, from her early childhood in East Germany to her adolescence and adulthood in West Germany. With her coming of age, it soon becomes clear that she frowns upon capitalism and the obsession with money, and refuses to live in accordance with the capitalist norm which consequently sets the novel's critical tone towards capitalism and capitalist society. By including the historical events which had happened in this forty-year period and cleverly intertwining them with the narrative, it becomes clear that the novel cannot be fully comprehended nor correctly analyzed without some understanding of the historical period of the divided Germany and the insight into the two economic systems, socialism and capitalism. Since this novel also exhibits considerable potential for its integration into the interdisciplinary GFL- (literature) lessons at the grammar school level, the Master's Thesis offers a variety of suggestions and activities for exploring its teaching potential.
Secondary keywords: medpredmetno povezovanje;nemščina kot tuji jezik;magistrska dela;interdisciplinary GFL- literature lessons;master theses;Literarni liki;Učenje in poučevanje;Nemščina;Univerzitetna in visokošolska dela;
Type (COBISS): Master's thesis/paper
Thesis comment: Univ. v Mariboru, Filozofska fak., Oddelek za germanistiko
Pages: 1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (VIII, 91 str.))
ID: 14369279