Below are the German film and literature titles set for the OCR A level starting from September 2016.
All the titles are available to buy from us (order details at the bottom of the page)
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
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
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
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
BÖLL, HEINRICH: DAS BROT DER FRÜHEN JAHRE
Insecurity Walter Fendrich remembers the hunger and deprivation of the early, postwar years and is obsessed never to feel like that again. However one day his world is transformed when he meets a woman and discovers that love dispels his cravings as bread never could.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
DTV, ISBN: 9783423013741 - £9.95
BRECHT, BERTOLT: DAS LEBEN DES GALILEI
Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Suhrkamp, ISBN: 9783518100011 - £7.95
Suhrkamp Basisbibliothek, ISBN: 9783518188019 - £7.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - LIFE OF GALILEO.
Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9780413577801 - £9.99
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: BIEDERMANN UND DIE BRANDSTIFTER
Dark comedy is set in a town that is being regularly attacked by arsonists.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge, ISBN: 9780415027588 - £21.99
Suhrkamp TB, ISBN: 9783518100417 - £6.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FRISCH THREE PLAYS : "FIRE RAISERS", "ANDORRA", "TRIPTYCH".
Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9780413665607 - £14.99
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 - £3.15 (g)
Suhrkamp TB, ISBN: 9783518188132 - £6.60
Fischer TB, ISBN: 9783596258758 - £8.65
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
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
WOLF, CHRISTA: DER GETEILTE HIMMEL
First published in East Germany in 1963, the book tells the story of a young couple, living in socialist East Germany, where their relationship is tested by the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
GERMAN LANGUAGE VERSION -
DTV, ISBN: 9783423009157 - £10.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THEY DIVIDED THE SKY : A NOVEL BY CHRISTA WOLF.
University of Ottawa Press. ISBN: 9780776607870 - £18.95
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