Universität Wien

080108 UE Vienna - City Space and Literature (2011S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 07.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 21.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 28.03. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 04.04. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 11.04. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 02.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 09.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 16.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 23.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 30.05. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 06.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 20.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Monday 27.06. 16:30 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The urban space of Vienna is an important subject of literature. It serves as a setting, as a carrier of historical and cultural meaning, and it resonates the emotional state of the protagonists. As an element of reality, which permanently exists outside the text, it anchors the fictive narration in the physical world. Literature studies serve as a starting point of the course. However, function and construction of city space in literature will not be the main focus; and the relationship between city and literature will not be investigated from within the lecture room. Rather, the urban places will be confronted with their literary elaborations in situ: Which qualities of a certain place are called forth, used and interpreted by the narration? How is the "literary place" related to the actual and historical appearance of the place? How is literature inscribed into the imaginary life of the city and its material structures?

Assessment and permitted materials

The assessment will be based on the lectures/tours executes during the course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

First of all, the urban space has to be made an object of observation - as part of a quite practical experience. The students have to prepare their lectures/tours in the city space itself: prove optical perspectives, estimate the width and boarders of places, reflect on the visibility of architectural history and other atmospheric or ephemeral qualities of space. They have to observe what is going to happen at a site, if they talk or read about that site. Literature will serve as the permanent material counterpart and as a point of orientation in this eventually confusing endeavour.
Along this way of practical experience, the course will lead to the reflection and cognition of urban space as a theoretical object of art history, literature studies and under the broader perspective of sociology of space and cultural studies.
The realisation, which has to pass through the tension between theoretical subject and the unfiltered conditions of street life, will serve as training for the practice of the "guided tour". Art historians do not only have to guide through inner and outer space during their academic curriculum, but equally in many future fields of professional practice.

Examination topics

During the course, the students will make guided tours through the city space. At selected places they will give short readings from the chosen narration. They will relate architectural monuments, streets and further urban structures with the literary narrations, their historical formation and their afterlife up to the present. On the one hand, the participants will provide historical analysis and reflexion of the media. On the other hand, they will prove the performative potentials and difficulties of the guided tour. The lecture has to be organised efficiently in the urban space and the readings from literature are to be planned according to their effect in situ.
The lecturer will offer a list of literary works, which do not only conceive a general image of Vienna, but are essentially based on individual streets, buildings and places. The students can also suggest literary works of all genres (even musical works or songs), under the condition that the direct confrontation of work and place promises a productive interpretation.

Reading list

Folgende AutorInnen und Werke werden zur Bearbeitung vorgeschlagen:

Franz Grillparzer, Der arme Spielmann, 1846
Adalbert Stifter, Turmalin (1852) / Aussicht und Betrachtung von der Spitze des Stephansturmes / Gang durch die Katakomben (beide publ. in: Aus dem alten Wien, 1870)
Max Winter, Im dunkelsten Wien, 1904
Arthur Schnitzler, Der Weg ins Freie, 1908 (u.a.)
Hugo Bettauer, Stadt ohne Juden, 1922 (und Kriminalromane)
Leopoldi Ehrlich, Der Sohn des Moses Mautner, 1927
Veza Canetti, Die gelbe Straße, 1932/33 (1990)
Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, 1930-43
Heimito von Doderer, Strudlhofstiege, 1951 / Die Dämonen, 1956
Hilde Spiel, Rückkehr nach Wien, 1968
Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina, 1971
Peter Henisch, Vom Baronkarl. Peripheriegeschichten und andere Prosa, 1972; Pepi Prohaska Prophet, 1986; Schwarzer Peter, 2000; Eine sehr kleine Frau, 2007
Frederic Morton, Die Ewigkeitsgasse, 1984
Gerhard Roth, Eine Reise in das Innere von Wien, 1991 (weitere Werke aus dem Archiv des Schweigens)
Doron Rabinovici, Ohnehin, 2004
Arno Geiger, Es geht uns gut, 2005
Peter Rosei, Wien Metropolis, 2005
Eva Menasse, Vienna, 2005

Sekundärliteratur:

Otto Brusatti u.a.: Am Ort der Handlung, Ausstellung Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek. Wien 1993
Knut Brynhildsvoll: Der literarische Raum. Konzeptionen und Entwürfe. Frankfurt am Main 1993
Michel Butor: Die Stadt als Text. Graz, Wien 1992
Angelika Corbineau-Hoffmann: Kleine Literaturgeschichte der Großstadt. Darmstadt 2003
Hubert Christian Ehalt (Hg.): Wien - die Stadt lesen. Diskurse, Erzählungen, Gedichte, Bilder. Weitra 2006
Eva Greil: Die Topographie der Wahrnehmung. Wientexte von der Frühneuzeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Diss. Wien 2004
Maurice Halbwachs, Das kollektive Gedächtnis. Stuttgart 1967 (1939)
Hedwig Heger: Wien. Eine literarische Entdeckungsreise. Darmstadt 2004
Gerhard Kapner: Architektur als Psychotherapie. Über die Rezension von Stadtbildern in Romanen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wien u.a. 1984
Volker Klotz: Die erzählte Stadt. Ein Sujet als Herausforderung des Romans von Lesage bis Döblin, München 1969
Magdalena Lueger: Die Funktion der Stadt. Wien in der österreichischen Literatur. Theorie, Tradition und Analyse ausgewählter Beispiele ab 2000. Dipl.Arb. Wien 2010
Gertraud Marinelli-König (Hg.): Wien als Magnet? Schriftsteller aus Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa über die Stadt. Wien 1996
Richard Reichensperger: Vorfreude Wien. Literarische Warnungen 1945-95. Frankfurt a.M. 1995
Klaus R. Scherpe: Die Unwirklichkeit der Städte. Großstadtdarstellungen zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne. Hamburg 1988
Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler: Umwege erhöhen die Ortskenntnis. Einleitung. In: Franz Hubmann: Auf den Spuren von Heimito von Doderer. Eine photographisch-literarische Reise rund um die "Strudlhofstiege" in Wien. Wien, München 1996, S. 7-14
Ders.: Die Strudlhofstiege. In: Interpretationen. Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts, Bd. 2, Stuttgart 1993, S. 7-31
Paul Christoph Schneeberger: Wien in österreichischen Romanen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Dipl.Arb. Wien 2007
Anne-Cathrine Simon: Schnitzlers Wien. Wien 2002
Horst Turk: Musils Wien. In: Frick Werner (Hg.): Orte der Literatur. Göttingen 2002, S. 310-334

Association in the course directory

F 160, F 250

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