GERMAN YEAR 1 reading list 
             
            Language Courses 
             
            We strongly recommend at least one of the following grammar books, as you will 
            need them from first year on: 
               ●  Martin Durrell/Katrin Kohl/Gudrun Loftus. Essential German Grammar. 
                  London: Arnold, 2002. – for First and Second Year Students 
               ●  Hammer's German Grammar and Usage, ed. Martin Durrell, Edward Arnold. 
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                  5  edition 2011 – for Second and Final Year Students 
               ●  Hilke Dreyer/Richard Schmitt. Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen 
                  Grammatik. Ismaning: Hueber, 2000. – for First and Second Year Students, 
                  also available in English. 
               ●  Cecile Zorach and Charolotte Melin. English Grammar for Students of 
                  German. 4th edition. London: Arnold, 2004. – for students unfamiliar with 
                  grammatical terminology 
             
            The text book for ab initio students is: 
               ●  Dieter Sevin, Ingrid Sevin: Wie Geht's? An Introductory German Course (9th 
                  International Edition). Heinle Cengage Learning. ISBN: 9781439084090. 
             
            In addition, we will be working with the following book to extend vocabulary, which 
            will be vital in terms of your linguistic proficiency and your performance in the exams: 
               ●  Monika Reimann/Sabine Dinsel. Großer Lernwortschatz. Deutsch als 
                  Fremdsprache. Ismaning: Hueber, 2003. 
             
            For improvement of your reading and writing skills in German, we recommend the 
            following: 
               ●  Waltraud, Coles/ Dodd, Bill. Reading German. A course book and    reference 
                  grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 
               ●  Duensing, Annette/ Baumann, Uwe. Developing Writing Skills in German. 
                  London: Routledge, 2006. 
             
            GER4207 Foundations of German Studies (compulsory module for all students 
            taking German) 
             
            To get you started on the reading required for Foundations of German Studies, we 
            would recommend you acquaint yourselves with the following:  
             
            Language and Linguistics 
            Stevenson, Patrick, and others. The German-Speaking World: A Practical 
            Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues, 2dn edn. London: Routledge, 2017. [In 
            preparation for the course, see especially Part One: The Position of German In The 
            World.] 
             
            Literature 
            Heym, Stefan. “Auf Sand gebaut,” in Auf Sand gebaut, Filz, pp. 39–54. Munich: btb, 
            2005. 
             
            You might want to read the following article alongside Heym’s text:  
                    Kinzer, Stephen. “Anguish of East Germans Grows With Property Claims by Former 
                    Owners.” The New York Times, 5 June 1992. Available online: 
                    https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/world/anguish-of-east-germans-grows-with-
                    property-claims-by-former-owners.html 
                     
                    Film  
                    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Nosferatu (1922) 
                    Available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAX2WBzCh5Y 
                     
                    History  
                    Fulbrook, Mary. A Concise History of Germany, 2dn edn. Cambridge: Cambridge 
                    University Press, 2014. 
                     
                    Furthermore, we strongly recommend that you start, or continue, reading / listening 
                    to / watching as much German material as you can before you join us in September 
                    in order to give yourself a head start. Why not spend time over the summer 
                    familiarizing yourself with some aspects of German literature and culture? Explore 
                    contemporary fiction, for instance by our previous writers-in-residence: 
                    https://www.qmul.ac.uk/cagcr/writers-in-residence/writers-in-residence/.  
                    Some of them can be seen and heard on the web, see for instance 
                    https://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/culture-language-and-
                    literature/encounters-barbara-honigmann-and-judith-k%C3%B6hler or 
                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaGzmfGvoJU . 
                     
                    If you want to see what these authors made of London and QMUL (including some 
                    your future teachers), try Matthias Politycki: London für Helden. The Ale Trail 
                    (https://www.matthias-politycki.de/London-fuer-Helden~630) or Gregor Sander 
                    Tagebuch eines Jahres (https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835315587-gregor-
                    sander-tagebuch-eines-jahres.html).  
                     
                    And should you be in Germany over the summer (or have other ways of accessing 
                    German films), Gregor Sander’s novel Was gewesen wäre (“What would have 
                    been”) has been adapted into film and will come out in August 2019: 
                    https://www.kino-zeit.de/film-kritiken-trailer/was-gewesen-waere-2019 . 
                     
                    For those of you who need a little help in the form of translation, try the bilingual 
                    anthology Zwei Wochen in England. Österreichische AutorInnen in London (Two 
                    Weeks in England. Austrian Authors in London), edited by Heide Kunzelmann.  
                     
                     
                    You may also enjoy reading general book about Germany’s culture past and 
                    present, such as  
                         -    John Ardagh: Germany and the Germans. Penguin Books: Harmondsworth 
                              1995;  
                         -    Neil MacGregor: Germany: Memories of a Nation. Penguin: Harmondsworth 
                              2014; or  
                         -    Philip Oltermann: Keeping up with the Germans. A History of Anglo-German 
                              Encounters. Faber & Faber 2012.