My classes are very interesting this semester! (Hey let's talk about something else for a while, while my irritation level decreases) I am currently researching the wine-industry/-history in South-Germany for my Freiburg History class, preparing for a Referat on Thursday. I have a European Union class tomorrow, which is helpful because my knowledge on the past 60 years is lacking. Today I had a Literature class and a Environment-Protection language course. My 5th course is a USA-Germany-history and politics class.
The Literature class has been most interesting. The course covers German and Austrian philosophy and literature around the turn of the century (19th to 20th). So far we have read Ein Brief by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, some Wittgenstein and some Ernst Mach. The topics are dense, but I'm very proud of my understanding so far. This Saturday, our class is going to Vienna for a week, to go to museums, Cafés, monuments and the like... :D
Also for the Literature course we have to give a Referat and I chose to present the works of Stanley Kubrik (since we will be watching Eyes Wide Shut, based off the novel Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler, which we will read soon.) It started as a curiousity, but now it has become more of a fixation. I want to know everything. I've seen Dr. Strangelove and Spartacus in the past, not nearly enough. I watched A Clockwork Orange this weekend and have started Full Metal Jacket. Then it will be The Shining, Lolita and 2001... I have books checked out, wiki pages read, Seth at hand... this project is going to be AWESOME. Any discussions on Stanley Kubrik are very very welcome.
OK, back to the boring reading. Sigh.
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