Overview
This Twentieth Century Berlin - People, Places, Words course from Freie Universität Berlin is about the city that was at the epicenter of the defining catastrophes of the twentieth century, including the First World War, the horror of the Nazi era that resulted in the Second World War and the Holocaust, and the long grubby Cold War that saw the city physically divided between capitalism and communism in an embodiment of the conflict between the American and Soviet worlds.
Yet amidst these horrors (and arguably because of them), Berlin was also a place where some of the most boundary breaking avant-garde art, progressive politics and anarchic subcultures of the twentieth century bloomed and died in the furnace of its constantly changing social, political and economic turmoil.
The livid imprint of this tormented history marks Berlin up until today, and demands to be known, studied and understood.
With this urgency in mind, in this course we examine the history of twentieth century Berlin through various lenses: the biographies of individuals, the words of writers who bore witness to the vertiginous social, political and physical changes the city underwent, and buildings and monuments whose physical construction, destruction and reconstruction reflected the ideological turmoil and conflict of those immense hundred years.
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Topics
- Revolutionary Berlin 1918: The Artist and The
- Activist
- The Weimar Years: Literary Witnesses
- Nazi Berlin: The Actress and the Filmmaker
- The Divided City: The Berlin Airlift of 1948 - 1949
- The Divided Heaven: Literature as Resistance in East Berlin
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Duration
- Part-time
- 2 days
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Sociology Modern History European Studies View 10 other Short Courses in European Studies in GermanyExplore more key information
Visit programme websiteAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Students should be able to speak and read English at the upper intermediate level (B2) or higher. No prior knowledge is required but the willingness to think beyond the usual framings on migration.
Required language skills
- The language of instruction is English. Language proficiency on an advanced Intermediate level (Mittelstufe II) is a prerequisite for participation. For orientation purposes, you can assess your language skills via the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
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International
1300 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1300 EUR for the full programme during 2 days. -
EU/EEA
1300 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1300 EUR for the full programme during 2 days.
Living costs for Berlin
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