{"id":860,"date":"2019-03-12T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=860"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:54:14","slug":"media-recommendation-sommers-weltliteratur-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2019\/03\/12\/media-recommendation-sommers-weltliteratur-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Recommendation: &#8220;Sommers Weltliteratur to go&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sommers Weltliteratur to go&#8221; (Sommer&#8217;s World Literature to go) is a German YouTube channel made by Michael Somme, and originally presented by Reclam (those little yellow books every German student knows and loves). Each episode summarises a literary work, from the German classics like\u00a0<em>Faust\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Parzival<\/em> to modern literature like <em>Der Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Harry Potter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The fun twist is that Sommer presents these works in vignette form, using Playmobil figures\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faust to go (Goethe in 9 Minuten)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMXvK6uScnY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The episodes are fairly short, normally between 6 and 12 minutes, and are a great way to brush up on your knowledge of German literature (and other classics), while also practicing your listening skills.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Die Verwandlung to go (Kafka in 11 Minuten)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MQiqPzzJOtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The language in the episodes isn&#8217;t too complicated, but it is sometimes spoken a little fast. I&#8217;d recommend starting with some books you&#8217;re already familiar with. Start with something like\u00a0<em>Der Herr der Ringe\u00a0<\/em>(<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>) or <em>Der gro\u00dfe Gatsby <\/em>(<em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>)\u00a0before moving on to Goethe, Brecht, and Kafka!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Der Herr der Ringe to go (Tolkien in 14 Minuten)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iDR0if391c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sommers Weltliteratur to go&#8221; (Sommer&#8217;s World Literature to go) is a German YouTube channel made by Michael Somme, and originally presented by Reclam (those little yellow books every German student knows and loves). Each episode summarises a literary work, from the German classics like\u00a0Faust\u00a0and Parzival to modern literature like Der Hobbit\u00a0and\u00a0Harry Potter. The fun twist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2019\/03\/12\/media-recommendation-sommers-weltliteratur-to-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Media Recommendation: &#8220;Sommers Weltliteratur to go&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,83,70,95,85,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced","category-film","category-german","category-intermediate","category-literature","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}