Dr. Katrina Sark
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Berlin: City and Culture

UVic Continuing Studies - Fall 2016
Berlin Study Tour - May 2019
Course by Dr. Kat Sark
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Course Outline: 

(Subject to changes / in progress)
Week 1
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Introduction, History
  • Introduction: my work on Berlin
  • History​

VIDEO: Berlin in Motion

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 
  • How has Berlin changed since reunification?  
  • What cultural role does Berlin play in Germany and in Europe today?

LINKS:
  • East Berlin now and then 
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Berlin Study Tour Preview
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Berlin History
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Week 2
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Memorials and Museums
  • ​​​Pergamon Museum Berlin
  • Film Museum
  • Wall Museum at Check Point Charlie 
  • Jewish Museum Berlin 
  • Berlin Wall Memorial
  • STASI Museum and archives 
  • Underground Bunker tours 
  • Wannsee Conference House
  • German Museum of Technology 
  • Potsdam’s Sansoussi Palace
  • Berlin City of Women – Exhibition at the Ephraim Palais
  • ​Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial 
  • Museumportal Berlin
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Berlin Memorials
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Berlin Museums
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Week 3
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Architecture, Art, Photography
  • Kai Jakob, Street Art in Berlin 
  • Photo essay: Berlin Mitte
  • Berlin Wonderland (1990-1996)
  • Haunted Sites: Forgotten Places in Berlin and Surroundings
  • Art projects: Places of Remembrance (1993)
  • Richard Long: Berlin Circle ​​
  • Alexanderplatz TV Tower 

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 
  • Why are so many artists, designers, musicians moving to Berlin?  
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Berlin Architecture
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Berlin Art
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Week 4
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Theatre​
  • Berliner Ensemble – Behind the Scenes with Werner Riemann
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Visit of the Old Lady
  • Staartsoper Berlin
  • Deutsche Oper
  • Komische Oper
  • Friedrichstadt Palast and Postdamer Platz Theatre have musicals and spectacle-entertainment shows 
  • Most main Berlin theatres offer English subtitles for plays and operas – they also have guided tours that take you back stage into the historical theatres (might be available in English)
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Berlin Theatre
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Week 5
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Film​ and Documentaries
  • Berlin: Sinfonie der Großstadt (Walter Ruttmann, 1927)  
  • In Berlin (Michale Ballhaus, Ciro Capellari, 2009)  
  • Mauerpark (Dennis Karsten, 2010)
  • Suites Culturelles, Interview with Dennis Karsten
  • ​24 Hours Berlin (Volker Heisse, 2009)
  • ​Filmpark Babelsberg – film studios where UFA, DEFA, and contemporary German and Hollywood films are made

DISCUSSION:  
  • How is Berlin represented in film? 
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Berlin Cinescape
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Week 6
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Music
  • Marlene Dietrich, Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin (1954, Lyrics)
  • Hildegard Knef, Das ist Berlin (Lyrics) 
  • The Guardian: Bowie's Berlin
  • Suites Culturelles, U2 in Berlin 
  • Monbijou Theatre and Beach Bar Swing
  • Clärchens Ballhaus

VIDEO: Seeed Dickes B (2001, Lyrics)
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Berlin Music
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Week 7
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Fashion
  • F.C.Gundlach 
  • Vogue.de
  • Suites Culutelles, Berlin Fashion in Vancouver and Claus Jahnke Collection of Berlin and Vienna designs
  • S.Wert - Berlin Design
  • Visions & Fashion Exhibition
  • ​Suites Culturelles, Berlin Fashion Week 
  • ​Berliner Chic
  • Tracing the Locations of Berliner Chic
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Berlin Fashion
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Week 8
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Literature
  • ​Suites Culturelles, Berlin Ghosts and Other Inhabitants: New Berlin Fiction
  • Annett Gröschner – Living and Writing Berlin (interview with author)
  • Suites Culturelles, Berlin Fiction 
  • Berlin Short Fiction and Interview with Anja Tuckermann

DISCUSSION:  
  • How is Berlin represented in literature? 
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Week 9 
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Media and Podcasts 
  • ​SWR2 Kultur Info – podcasts on culture (auf Deutsch) 
  • Deutsche Welle – Nachrichten (auf Deutsch)
  • Podcast.de (auf Deutsch) 
  • BR Campus Talks – Bildung und Forschung (auf Deutsch)
  • D Radio Wissen – Podcasts (auf Deutsch) 

  • Deutsche Welle podcasts (in English)
  • Spiegel – news (in English)
  • Young Germany – news and culture (in English)
  • List of podcasts to learn German (in English)
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Week 10 
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Magazines
  • ​Zitty – Berlin event program (auf Deutsch) 
  • Tip Berlin – city event program (auf Deutsch) 
  • ​Missy Magazine – feminism and pop culture (auf Deutsch) 
  • Exberliner – English newspaper (in English) 

​Blogs
  • I heart Berlin – unconventional bucket lists
  • ​Slow Travel Berlin – life and culture
  • Stil in Berlin – life and culture
  • ​Berlin Reified – life and culture 
  • Suites Culturelles – Berlin Highlights: Cafés and Book Stores​
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Week 11
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LGBTQ+ 
  • Himmelreich - Queer bar in Friedrichshain 
  • Marienhof - Queer-friendly bar in Prenzlauer Berg
  • Heile Welt - Gay bar at Nollendorfplatz (gay district) 
  • Cafe Berio - Parian-style cafe in the gay district at Nollendorfplatz, with outdoor tables facing the sidewalk for people-watching
  • Hafen - Gay and lesbian bar at Nollendorfplatz 

  • LGBTQ+ Guide to Berlin
  • Official City of Berlin LGBTI* Guide to Berlin
  • 11 Queer spots in Berlin  
  • Gay Museum Berlin
  • Wikipedia: LGBTQ+ culture in Berlin ​ ​
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Books:  

  • Brian Ladd, The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape. Chicago: University Press, 1997.
  • Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.
  • Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. New York: Vintage Books, 2015.
  • Susan Ingram and Katrina Sark, Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion. Bristol: Intellect Press, 2011.
  • Susan Ingram (ed.) World Film Locations: Berlin. Bristol: Intellect Press, 2012.
  • Karin Bauer and Jennifer Hosek (eds.) Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin. New York: Berghahn, 2018.  

Films:

  • The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
  • The Educators (dir. Hans Weingartner, 2004)
  • Goodbye Lenin! (dir. Wolfgang Becker, 2003)
  • The Tunnel (dir. Roland Suso Richter, 2001)
  • Run Lola Run (dir. Tom Tykwer, 1998)
  • The Legend of Paul and Paula (dir. Heiner Carow, 1973)
  • One Two Three (dir. Billy Wilder, 1961)
  • Berlin: Sinfonie der Großstadt (dir. Walter Ruttmann, 1927) 
  • Der blaue Engel (dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1930) 
  • Der geteilte Himmel (dir. Konrad Wolf, 1964) 
  • Der Himmel über Berlin [Wings of Desire] (dir. Wim Wenders, 1987)
  • Faraway So Close (dir. Wim Wenders, 1993)
  • Berlin is in Germany (dir. Hannes Stöhr, 2001)​  
  • Berlin Calling (dir. Hannes Stöhr, 2008) 
  • Wir sind die Nacht (dir. Dennis Gansel, 2010)

TV Shows:

  • Charité (on Netflix) - first season is set during 1888 and the years following at Berlin's Charité hospital. A second series aired in Germany in February 2019. This season is set from 1943 to 1945. The cast has been replaced with completely different actors due to the great time lapse between the seasons.
  • The Same Sky (original title: Der gleiche Himmel, on Netflix) is a 2017 German TV miniseries set in Cold War Germany and portrays the fate of two families on either side of the Berlin Wall. The story revolves around the relationship between an East German "Romeo" agent – a spy who uses seduction as a way to unearth secrets — and his female target in the West.

Shops:

  • Mall of Berlin (Leipziger Platz) and Arkaden am Potsdamer Platz 
  • Mauerpark Flee Market (Sundays only) – great for strolling through on your own time 
  • Dussmann Bookstore (Friedrichstraße 90, 10117 Berlin U+S-Friedrichstrasse) – open 10am – 12am, closed on Sundays – large collection of Berlin books, DVDs, Music, and now also a large English book section 
  • Original Unverpackt – packaging-free supermarket in Kreuzberg 

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