2d Englisch A. Seiler


Cult Figures, Cult Books, Cult Movies, Cult Objects
From Lord Byron to Marilyn Monroe, from "Casablanca" to Coca-Cola, England and America have provided the world with perfect specimens of cult figures and cult objects. This course tries to capture the magic and the effect of selected individuals and artefacts from various cultural spheres. The course will leave room for creative written and oral contributions by its participants.

Mohamed Ali, Woody Allen, Elizabeth Arden, Louis Armstrong, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Christiaan Barnard, The Beatles, Samuel Beckett, John Lennon, Che Guevara, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Federico Garcia Lorca, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Marlene Dietrich, Mao Tse Tung, Franco, Lenin, Fidel Castro, Salvador Dali, Martin Luther King, Alfred Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Gianni Versace, Mahatma Gandhi, Bob Dylan, Steven Spielberg, Princess Diana, Ernest Hemingway, the DC-3, the PC, your cult figure, cult book, cult movie or cult object.