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Below are the German film and literature titles set for the EDEXCEL A level starting from September 2016.
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SET EDEXCEL GERMAN FILMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2016
SET EDEXCEL GERMAN FILMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2016
FILMSPRACHE APP (GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM APPS) - Learning German film - here is a good German language film app that has over 400 definitions of important terms in film language, film analysis and cinematic storytelling useful for basic and advanced film courses -
FILMS
ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND 2011 GERMANY SAMDERELI, YASEMIN - NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD
German Turkish family decide to go back to live in Turkey
ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND -UNTERRICHTSMATERIALIEN FÜR DIE SEKUNDARSTUFE
KEY TO ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND -UNTERRICHTSMATERIALIEN FÜR DIE SEKUNDARSTUFE
DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI/EDUKATORS (15) 2004 GERMANY WEINGARTNER,H. £19.99
Edukadors presents three idealistic activists trying to get by in a corrupt world.
Level: AS, A2, Subject: Film Studies, German, Media Studies
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY INGRID ARNOLD
DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI: ACTIVITIES BEFORE THE FILM
DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI ACTIVITIES AFTER THE FILM
ANSWERS FOR DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI ACTIVITIES AFTER THE FILM
GOOD BYE LENIN! (15) 2002 GERMANY BECKER, WOLFGANG £19.99
One of the biggest German comedies of recent times.
Level: A2, GCSE Subject: General Studies, German, History, Media Studies, Politics
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY CRISTINA MOLES KAUPP
GERMAN LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY HANNA OSTERMANN AND STEFFI BOOTHROYD
GOOD BYE, LENIN!: OSTALGIE UND IDENTITÄT IM WIEDER VEREINIGTEN DEUTSCHLAND BY SEÁN ALLAN
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: GOOD BYE, LENIN! : FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL GERMAN
Breaking down each scene, character and theme in Good bye, Lenin!, this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the film and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891847 2017 - £11.99
LEBEN DER ANDEREN/LIVES OF OTHERS (15) 2006 GERMANY H. VON DONNERSMARCK, F £19.99
Five years before the downfall of the DDR, party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subject: Film Studies, German, History, Media Studies
GERMAN LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY RENE KOGLBAUER & SIMONE SCHROT
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUPIL’S NOTES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER’S NOTES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER’S NOTES ANSWERS
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN : FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL GERMAN
Study guide to the German film.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891816 2017 - £11.99
LOLA RENNT/RUN LOLA RUN (15) 1999 GERMANY TYKWER, TOM DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £17.99
Heart-stopping suspense thriller of one woman ‘s desperate attempt to save her lover.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subject: German,English, Film Studies, Media Studies
GERMAN LANGUAGE WORK MATERIAL AUSTRIAN INST
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
ONLINE ‘BUILDING BLOCK’ WEB PAGE FOR TEACHING THE FILM
LINKS TO LITERATURE AND NOTES TO THE FILM
NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA/NOWHERE IN AFRICA (15) 2002 GERMANY LINK, CAROLINE £25.99 – ONLY AVAILABLE IN A GERMAN EDITION WITHOUT ENGLISH SUBTITLES
1938 a German Jewish family moves to Kenya to start a new life.
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILM-HEFT VON KLAUS-DIETER FELSMANN
GERMAN LANGUAGE WORKSHEET
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESS KIT
ROSENSTRAßE (12) GERMANY 2003 TROTTA, MARGARETHE VON £15.99
The film tells the story of a group of German women who were married to Jewish men and how their men and children were arrested and confined in a prison in Rosenstrasse by the Nazis. The women set up a protest group , demanding that the authorities give back their men.
GERMAN FILM NOTES TO ROSENSTRAßE
SOPHIE SCHOLL (PG) 2005 GERMANY ROTHEMUND, MARC DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Account of the last days of the White Rose resistance group members, Sophie and Hans Scholl.
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS
DER UNTERGANG/DOWNFALL(15) 2004 GERMANY HIRSCHBIEGEL, OLIVER £15.99
Film of Hitler’s final days in his Berlin bunker which caused controversy by humanising the Fuhrer.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Subject: German, History, Media Studies
DOWNFALL AND BEYOND HITLER FILMS FROM GERMANY MARTIN BRADY AND HELEN HUGHES
GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS TO DER UNTERGANG
DER WALD VOR LAUTER BÄUMEN GERMAN 2003 ADE, MAREN £19.99 - ONLY AVAILABLE AS A USA REGION ONE DVD
Social awkwardness idealistic teacher begins her first job in a inner city school.
DIE WELLE/THE WAVE (15) 2008 GERMANY GANSEL, DENNIS £17.99
In an attempt to engage his students in politics, a high school teacher takes the controversial decision to turn the classroom into a Nazi-style dictatorship. But what starts out as an innocent social experiment ends in tragedy when the roots of fascism begin to take hold of the students.
GERMAN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM MATERIALS
SEQUENZPROTOKOLL UND DVD-OVERVIEW
TEACHING MATERIALS – QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FILM IN GERMAN
DAS WUNDER VON BERN/MIRACLE OF BERN (PG) 2003 GERMANY WORTMAN, SONKE £19.99
Set in the summer of 1954 when the West German team won the World World Cup and the country finally emerged from the shadow of the Second World War.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM NOTES BY TOBIAS HOCHSCHERF
GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMHEFT BY PHILIPP BÜHLER
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUPIL’S NOTES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER’S NOTES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER’S NOTES ANSWERS
SET EDEXCEL GERMAN LITERATURE FROM SEPTEMBER 2016
SET EDEXCEL GERMAN LITERATURE FROM SEPTEMBER 2016
ANDERSCH, ALFRED: SANSIBAR ODER DER LETZTE GRUND
Five people, in a small seaside town, attempt to save a statue due to be destroyed by the Nazis.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Diogenes, ISBN: 9783257236019 - £12.95
BÖLL, HEINRICH: DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM
Hard-working Katharina Blum spends a night with a young revolutionary on the run from the police. Innocent Katharina becomes implicated by the newspapers, who brand her immoral, a communist and an atheist. She becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and threats.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
DTV, ISBN: 9783423011501 - £9.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM
Vintage Publishing, ISBN: 9780749398989 - £8.99
BRECHT, BERTOLT: DER KAUKASISCHE KREIDEKREIS
Brecht set an ancient Chinese story in Soviet Georgia, where two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, justice is done and the peasant woman keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Suhrkamp, ISBN: 9783518188422 - £8.40
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE.
Bloomsbury, ISBN: 9780413544506 - £9.95
DÜRRENMATT, FRIEDRICH: DER BESUCH DER ALTEN DAME
Wealthy older woman returns to her hometown with a dreadful bargain: The townspeople are to kill the man who got her pregnant, then jilted her, in exchange, she will provide enough money to revitalise the town.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge, Paperback, ISBN: 9780415051408 - £21.99
(The full German text of Durrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English puting the work in its social and historical context.)
Diogenes, Paperback, ISBN: 9783257230451 - £12.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - VISIT
Grove Press ISBN: 9780802144263 - £10.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: DER BESUCH DER ALTEN DAME : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL GERMAN
This accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the play and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891939 2017 - £11.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: DER BESUCH DER ALTEN DAME
Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418399 2018 - £9.50
FRISCH, MAX: ANDORRA
Based on the author's own experience of anti-semitism in Switzerland.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge, ISBN: 9780415115643 - £21.99
Suhrkamp TB, ISBN: 9783518367773 - £10.75
Suhrkamp Basis Bibliothek, Paperback, ISBN: 9783518188088 - £8.50
Reclam, ISBN: 9783150081709 - £3.20
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FRISCH THREE PLAYS : "FIRE RAISERS", "ANDORRA", "TRIPTYCH".
Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9780413665607 - £14.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: ANDORRA : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL GERMAN. PRICE - £11.99
This accessible guide breaks down each scene, character and theme in Andorra, enabling students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical skills needed to write a successful essay.
Author: Geoff Brammall , Paperback, 96 pages, Publisher: Hodder Education , ISBN: 9781510435636, Published: 28 Sep 2018
HERMANN, JUDITH: SOMMERHAUS, SPÄTER UND ANDERE ERZÄHLUNGEN.
Set in todays Berlin this elegant, measured, reflective collection of stories of the monotony of modern urban life and the promise of bright colours lying just out of reach of our grey daily routines.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Fischer TB. ISBN: 9783596147700 - £9.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE SUMMER HOUSE, LATER.
Flamingo ISBN: 9780007115761 £9.99
HERRNDORF, WOLFGANG: TSCHICK
Mike doesn't get why people think he's boring. Sure, he doesn't have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) One day Tschick, the odd new boy at school, shows up at Mike's house and dares him to go on a road trip with him.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Rowohlt TB, ISBN: 9783499256356 - £12.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - WHY WE TOOK THE CAR
Andersen Press. ISBN: 9781783440313 - £7.99
FILM VERSION
TSCHICK/GOODBYE BERLIN (15) 2016 GERMANY AKIN, FATIH £18.99
Comedy drama adaptation of Wolfgang Herrndorf's best-selling cult novel. In this coming-of-age story of two friends steal a car and take the trip into the countryside in search of excitement and adventure.
KAFKA, FRANZ: DIE VERWANDLUNG
When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed
into a dung beetle.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Reclam, ISBN: 9783150099001 - £3.50 (g)
Suhrkamp TB, ISBN: 9783518188132 - £6.60
Fischer TB, ISBN: 9783596258758 - £8.75
Routledge, (Annotated) ISBN: 9780415098779 - £20.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES.
OUP ISBN: 9780199238552 - £7.99
THE TRIAL: METAMORPHOSIS: IN THE PENAL COLONY : THREE THEATRE ADAPTATIONS FROM FRANZ KAFKA PLAYSCRIPT.
Amber Lane Press Ltd ISBN: 9780906399842 - £9.99
KONIG, KARIN : ICH FÜHL MICH SO FIFTY-FIFTY.
1989, Sabine lives in Leipzig but is torn with the decision of leaving and joining her older brother who lives in West.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
DTV, ISBN: 9783423780209 - £9.95
MANN, THOMAS: TONIO KRÖGER
Tonio Kröger becomes a famous writer living in southern Germany and believes an artist must be an outsider to "respectable" society.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Fischer TB, ISBN: 9783596213818 - £6.45
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN AND OTHER STORIES.
Minerva ISBN: 9780749386627 £10.99
OSSOWSKI, LEONIE: STERN OHNE HIMMEL
Last days of World War II, five young Germans discover a Jewish boy hiding in a cellar and must decide if they should turn him in to the Nazi authorities as required by law.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
GULLIVER VON BELTZ & GELBERG ISBN: 9783407789853 - £8.10
PLENZDORF, ULRICH: DIE NEUEN LEIDEN DES JUNGEN W.
Absurd, funny and touching, this cult German bestseller of life in the GDR is a hymn to youthful freedom.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Suhrkamp TB. ISBN: 9783518368008 - £9.40
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE NEW SORROWS OF YOUNG W.
Pushkin Press. ISBN: 9781782270942 - £10.99
SCHLINK, BERNHARD: DER VORLESER
15-year-old Michael Berg has a chance meeting with an older woman, Hanna, which leads to far more than he ever imagined. However Hanna has a dark secret.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
Diogenes TB, ISBN: 9783257229530 - £12.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE READER -
Phoenix, ISBN: 9780753804704 - £8.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: DER VORLESER : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL GERMAN
Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist terminology.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471890161 2017 - £11.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: DER VORLESER: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL GERMAN SET TEXT
Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418382 2018 - £9.50
TIMM, UWE: DIE ENTDECKUNG DER CURRYWURST
The narrator of the story, interviews Lena Brücker and her story of how she invented curry sausage. As the story slowly emerges, she also tells the story of a love affair that took place at Zero Hour (die Stunde Null) in 1945 in Hamburg
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
DTV ISBN: 9783423128391 - £11.95
ESB. (Easy Readers German) ISBN: 9780850480108 - £6.75
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