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TAUGHT IN GERMAN. Few traditions have placed more emphasis than German literature on the importance of walking for finding one’s way on earth and in the cosmos. From Schiller and Novalis to Thomas Bernhard and Werner Herzog, walking has been conceived not only as a journey outwards but also inwards into uncharted terrain of memory, the unconscious, and the imagination. In this course we will read short texts on wandering by Schiller, Chamisso, Goethe, Novalis, Tieck, Stifter, Walser, Bernhard, Herzog and Sebald with an eye toward the relationships that walking establishes between past and present, reality and imagination, time and space and inner and outer experience.