Winter Quarter 2026
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- GER 002-001 Elementary German
Yingwei Mu - GER 002-002 Elementary German
Seva Shinde - GER 011 Travel & Modern World
Chunjie Zhang - GER 021 Intermediate German
Aaron Saint John - GER 114 German Women & Film
Elisabeth Krimmer This course explores the work of some of the most important German actresses and women filmmakers from the Weimar Republic to the present, including the Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl and the German-American film star Marlene Dietrich. We will focus on changing conceptualizations of gender against the historical backdrop of 1) the Weimar Republic, gender experimentation and transgression; male anxiety in a Germany that lost the Great War 2) the Third Reich, the question of fascist aesthetics; gender and Nazi ideology; the documentary; 3) the post-war period: attempts to come to terms with the Nazi past, the melodrama; women as victims and perpetrators; 4) terrorism in 1970s Germany, German terrorism and its link to the Nazi past; women as terrorists and icons of innocence 5) recent internationally successful German films.
If you have questions, please contact emkrimmer@ucdavis.edu
GE: Arts & Humanities (AH); Visual Literacy (VL); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE)
- GER 120 Survey of German Culture
Chunjie Zhang - GER 143 Language Through Media
Carlee Arnett - GER 165E Nazi & Fascist Cinema
Jaimey Fisher