Lit Project

Lit Project OII 2005

20.07.2006

Forum of Ora Baumgarten's class

Jülich

Jülich / virtual tour / news *

Gymnasium H. Overbach

Kaminer news

project coordinator

Links

Google reference

Amos Oz - A Manifestation of German-Israeli Dialogue

Israeli - Palestinian conflict reflected in cartoons

more projects: A B

The history of the Chotzen family in Berlin from the 1920s till today (online virtual tour)

Photo Gallery

class2, Johannes & group

class2, André & group

class2, Corinna & group

class2, Florian & group

Comparison of Contemporary German and Israeli Short Stories

Update

Test: Katzenstein OII (2) Pipes OII (1)

Halibut Shoes Power Point Presentation by Shirly Kaslasy & Keren Hen

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Overview

Author Profiles

Group Activities

Lit Theory

Collection of Texts

Etgar Keret: Shoes

Archive

Author Profiles

Amazon.co.uk / review

Wladimir Kaminer / homepage

zdf Portrait

Etgar Keret

Interview with Keret Jan 2005

Amazon.com / review

In this bestselling book Russian immigrant Kaminer describes life in Berlin since the Wall came down in a series of short, wonderfully understated and comic vignettes. [...]There is the German who learns Russian from a children's radio show and calls everybody "my little friend" and gets arrested for murder when he visits Moscow for the first time .... more ....

Keret's work grapples with questions of mortality, cast in the shadow of love. The book's cover illustration of a happy-faced cartoon man blowing his brains out typifies Keret's approach: grim, ironic, and bizarrely charming. His characters all seem to be halfway to death in one way or another, or just past it and looking back. more ....

Group Activities

	Themes	Links	Groups (Germ.) (27+24)	Groups (Isr.) (27?)
1	Wladimir Kaminer - a true representative of German Literature? (biographical aspects)	►Wladimir Kaminer / homepage ►Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union ►Interview with W. Kaminer	class1: Laura (mod); Christina H, Nadine, Sabrina class2: Johannes (mod); Phillip, Stephan, Annika, Johannes (from left)	Etgar Keret - biographical aspects in stories: yaniv(fishi), liron, doron, David Tufik, Inbar Schneid, Ran Zaken.Tamar Leshem, Sapir Ella, Ofek Mimouni, Naomie Zaken, Michal Rotbart (11)
2	Kaminer's literary style (e.g. supernatural elements)	►Russian Picaro ►Interview with W. Kaminer	class1: Marc (mod); Sebastian, Christine, Sven	Etgar Keret - literary style Naomie Zaken, Michal Rotbart (2)
3	Life in Berlin (as seen by W. Kaminer)	►Jewish Cultural Sites in Berlin ►Jewish community center ►Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin	class1: Thomas (mod); Isabella, Miriam, Aileen class1: Oliver (mod); Dominik, Robin, Matthias class2: André (mod); Armin, Julia, André, Caroline, Andreas (missing on photo) (from left)
4	The protagonists in Kaminer's fiction	►Russian Disco (Review)	class2: Corinna (mod); Caroline R, Martina, Hannah (from left)
5	Economic aspects in Kaminer's fiction	►Jews in Germany today ►Russian Berlin today	class1: Markus (mod); Patrick, Dennis, Thilo
6	Cultural aspects in Kaminer's fiction	►Jewish Cultural Sites in Berlin ►Jewish community center	class2: Christian (mod); Astrid, Tina, Thorsten, Robert	Etgar Keret - Cultural Aspects of Stories (no posts)
7	Historical aspects in Kaminer's fiction	►Virtual Jewish history tour (Berlin) ►Jewish Berlin rises again - with Russian help ►Erich Honnecker ►Jews in Berlin	class1: Daniel (mod); Christina B, Johanna, Lea, Julia class2: Florian H. (mod); Christian, Max, Florian K, Florian H, Dennis (from left)
8	Analysis of Lichtenbusch Station according to ONE of its typical elements	►		Analysis of "Shoes" - plot, theme, conflict, setting Yariv Gweta, Adi, Hagit Dadon, Danielle Haham, Roei Yehuda, Itai Chaimsky, Ayelet Oz (7)
9	Personal identification with one of the aspects of Lichtenbusch Station			Creative writing (inspired by Keret's Shoes) Tal, Shirly Kaslasy, Keren Hen, doron maman, gal kupshtein, David Tufik, Re'em Bergman, Hagit Dadon, maya weledniger (9)
		The history of the Chotzen family in Berlin from the 1920s till today (online virtual tour)

Lit Theory

Elements of Short Stories	Notes	Short Story Elements

Collection of Texts

Russians in Berlin

Lichtenberg Station

The Russian Bride

Shoes

Halibut

Archive

Russian Disco - Contents

Russians In Berlin

Presents from East Germany

Father's Advice

A First Apartment of My Own

My Father

My Mother on her Travels

The Sweet Homeland Far Away

My Wife Alone at Home

My First Frenchman

The Everyday Life of a Work of Art

Out of the Burden of Love

The Sergeant's Wedding

Relationships in the Berlin Hothouse

The Russian Bride

Love Rules the World

The Girl and the Witches

Suleyman and Salieri

Russian Telephone Sex

Gambling Systems

No Flies In Berlin

Jump Out of the Window

A Lost Day

The Woman Who Gives Life to Everyone

Business Camouflage

The Turkish Tom-Cat

The Russian Mafia Joint

No More Trips to Weimar

Nuts from Around the World...

The Professor

My Little Friend

The Birch Woman

Double Lives In Berlin

Lichtenberg Station

Stalingrad

Now I Was an Actor Once

In the Trenches at Stalingrad

Political Correctness

The Russian Disco

The Women's Spring Festival

The Colombo of Prenzlauer Berg

Berlin Guidebooks

The New Jobs

The Radio Doctor

Berlin Portraits

The Countess Who Wrote

The Girl with the Mouse in Her Head

Boring Russians In Berlin

Learning German

The Language Test

Why I Still Haven't Applied for German Citizenship

*Etgar Keret's "Shoes" materials* Shoes
	Partisans from Rovno in the Volhynia area of Poland prepare to join their comrades in the fight against their oppressors. As the Nazis planned a final Aktion, some Jews escaped and fled to the surrounding forests. more ...	image from Power Point Presentation by Shirly Kaslasy & Keren Hen	image from Power Point Presentation by Shirly Kaslasy & Keren Hen