Illuminating the Dark Ages: Contemporary Adaptations of Medieval German Texts

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course explores how and why German-speaking authors of the 20th and 21st century, respectively, have adapted Middle High German texts for their contemporary audiences. We will discuss representative texts from a variety of literary genres ranging from a children's book (Hoppe) to young-adult/all-ages fiction (Grzimek) to literature for an adult readership (A. Muschg) and compare them to their source texts.