Herbert Deinert        


<>Professor of German Studies, Emeritus

180 Goldwin Smith

(607) 255-5265, 255-8356

(607) 255-1454 (fax)

(607) 272-7282 (home)

E-mail: hd11@cornell.edu

REMEMBER THE CHARTER

I WOULD FOUND AN INSTITUTION
WHERE MINDS CLASH
SOULS MERGE AND BODIES
WITHIN THE LIMITS IMPOSED BY PROPRIETY
ATTRACT ONE ANOTHER


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List of courses I taught regularly within four-year cycles: (click to open)

GERMAN STUDIES 111
GOETHE, SCHILLER, AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES. / Freshmen Writing Seminar.

GERMAN STUDIES 151
KAFKA, HESSE, BRECHT, AND MANN. / Freshmen Writing Seminar.

Major Works of Goethe (1749-1832).
German Studies 357

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805).
German Studies 354

Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811).
German Studies 353

FAUST. TRANSFORMATIONS OF A MYTH.
German Studies 417.  (Also CompLit 417). All texts in English.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). The Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.
German Studies 395. In English.
 

Major links : click to open.
(find additional links in the individual course descriptions)

ABITUR PLUS 50.  Fuer die Freunde von damals.

Der Ackermann aus Boehmen

Jacob Boehme: Die Entfaltung des Boesen in Boehmes Mysterium Magnum

Brecht/Weill: The Threepenny Opera. Brecht: Mother Courage  Galileo

Kafka: The Judgment. Judgment without Trial, I.  Before the Law.  Judgment without Trial, II. Hungerkuenstler

Thomas Mann: Gender Ambivalence in Death in Venice.

Goethe: Egmont.  Faust the Colonizer.  Iphigenie. Gretchen. Helena. Novelle. Tasso. Murnau's Faust Film.

The Faust Book. JW von Goethe at 250.

Germans  Against Hitler (1944).  Germany 1989: The Protestant Revolution.

Martin Luther (1483-1546).  Luther on Authority, Law and Order.

Rilke:   Music as Metaphor

            Rilke und die Musik  (350k pdf file)

Ludwig Tieck:  Eckbert the Fair.

About MUSIC, a rag bag.

Gelassenheit:   Wider die falsche Gelassenheit
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Film:   Paracelsus. Wunschkonzert.

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Review of Gerhard Hahn, Die Einheit des Ackermann aus Boehmen

Review of Michael Pauen, Dithyrambiker des Untergangs.

Review of Andrew Weeks, Boehme. An Intellectual Biography.

Review of Jaroslav Pelikan, Faust the Theologian.

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In Memoriam:  Eric A. Blackall. Inta M. Ezergailis.  Elizabeth M. Wilkinson. An Ode to Joy - A season of Grief  (Virginia Tech)