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135823 KO KO: Medea transmedial (2025S)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
We 19.03. 08:00-09:30 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Das KO findet von 9.00-10.30 Uhr statt.

  • Wednesday 19.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 26.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Digital
  • Wednesday 02.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 02.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 09.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Digital
  • Wednesday 30.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 30.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 07.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum 6, Kolingasse 14-16, EG00
  • Wednesday 07.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 6, Kolingasse 14-16, EG00
  • Wednesday 14.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Digital
  • Wednesday 21.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 21.05. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 28.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Digital
  • Wednesday 04.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 04.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 11.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Wednesday 11.06. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Saturday 14.06. 09:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 9, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The figure of Medea is considered one of the most fascinating female characters in theater history, whose fate has been repeatedly reimagined in literature to this day. In the course of literary history, her actions are staged in a spectrum that ranges from actively fighting against experienced injustice to unimaginably, unjustified atrocities. In terms of content, the material offers points of contact with current topics such as flight and exile, love and betrayal, women's knowledge of magic or healing, as well as power and revenge. In this seminar, we will focus on three different media versions of the Medea myth. Pierre Corneille's tragedy Médée (1635), Jean-Georges Noverre's ballet tragedy Jason und Medea (1780) and Christa Wolf's novel Medea. Stimmen (1996). Euripides’ Medea, who in a love-crazed rage becomes a child-murderer, is fundamental to the variation of the plot.
The aim of the colloquium is to provide an introduction to various interpretations of the Medea story from a gender- and media-reflective perspective that not only considers the innovative presentation of a well-known myth, but also the way the works are geared towards a specific (reading) audience. After an introduction to the Medea myth, to theater and ballet practices of the 17th and 18th centuries, and to the contemporary novel by Christa Wolf and literary theories of characterizing protagonists in drama and narratives by the seminar instructor, the above-mentioned texts will be analyzed with regard to a differentiated image of Medea and placed within their cultural and aesthetic context.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular attendance (examination-in-the-subject course), the below-mentioned partial performances (active participation in discussions, concept paper and its presentation, scientific podcast lasting 15 minutes including written submission of all cited and referred passages from primary and secondary literature in chronological order and a list of references in alphabetical order) are required for successful completion of the seminar.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular attendance (max. three absences) is required for this course. Students are expected to actively participate in the form of discussion participation, development of a concept for the podcast and presentation of the concept paper. The course is concluded with an independent oral work in the form of an academic, 15-minute podcast, which is uploaded to Moodle by the agreed date. The podcast must be accompanied by a written list of all quotations and references from primary and secondary literature in chronological order and a full bibliography of all quoted works in alphabetical order. The individual performances will be weighted as follows: active participation (25%), written assignments (concept-paper) and presentation (25%), podcast including references (50%). A total of 100 points will be awarded for all performances. A positive completion of the colloquium with a “sufficient” (4) requires the achievement of 60 points. At least 70 points are required for a “satisfactory” (3), 80 points for a “good” (2) and 90 points for a “very good” (1).

Examination topics

Regular active participation (a maximum of three unexcused absences), submission of a written concept paper and presentation of the concept paper and podcast including a chronological list of the quotes and references in chronological order and a full bibliography in alphabetical order.

Reading list

Primary sources (compulsory reading):
Corneille, Pierre (1980): Médée, in: Œuvres complètes I, hg. von Georges Couton. Paris, S. 533-609. [alternativ die dt. Übersetzung in: Schondorff, Joachim (1963): Medea. München/Wien: Langen-Müller, S. 111-160.
Noverre, Jean-Georges (1776): Medea und Jason. Ein tragisches Ballett von Erfindung des Herrn Noverre. Wien 1776.
Wolf, Christa (2008): Medea. Stimmen. Roman. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.

Secondary sources (recommended):
Dahms, Sibylle (2010): Der konservative Revolutionär. Jean Georges Noverre und die Ballettreform des 18. Jahrhunderts. München: epodium (derra dance research, 4).
Delmas, Christian (1996): Médée, figure de la violence dans le théâtre français du XVIIe siècle, in: Pallas Nr. 45, Médée et la Violence: Colloque international organisé à l’Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail les 28, 29 et 30 mars 1996 à l’initiative du Centre de Recherches Appliquées au Théâtre Antique (CRATA), S. 219-228.
Eichelmann, Sabine (2010): Der Mythos Medea: sein Weg durch das kulturelle Gedächtnis zu uns. Marburg: Textum.
Euripides (2023): Medea. Übers. u. hg. von Bernd Manuwald. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
Euripides (2018): Medea. Griechisch/Deutsch. Übers. u. hg. von Karl Heinz Eller. Stuttgart: Reclam.
Glaser, Horst Albert (2001): Medea: Frauenehre, Kindsmord, Emanzipation. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang.
Genette, Gérard (2010): Die Erzählung. Paderborn: W. Fink.
Krammer, Stefan (2017): „Medea revisited: zur Fragen der Alterität bei Christa Wolf“. In: Postkolonialität denken: Spektren germanistischer Forschung in Togo, hg.v. Amatso Obikoli Assemboni et al. Wien: Praesens, S. 207-216.
Lehmann, Johannes F. (2019): Zorn und Wut im Spannungsfeld der Literaturgeschichte, in: Emotionen: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, hg. von Hermann Kappelhoff, Jan-Hendrik Bakels, Hauke Lehmann und Christina Schmitt. Heidelberg, S. 180-184.
Pfister, Manfred (2001): Das Drama. 11. Aufl. Paderborn: W. Fink.
Scott, Claire (2022): Murderous mothers: late twentieth-century Medea figures and feminism. Oxford u.a.: Peter Lang.
Wygant, Amy (2007): Medea, magic, and modernity in France: stages and histories (1553-1797). Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate.

Association in the course directory

MA M2; MA M1

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