This course, taught in German, examines texts and artworks from World War I to the present which engage with the experience and cultural implications of warfare in first-person accounts, plays, poems, novels, paintings, sculptures, etc. We will consider the broad range of reaction to conflict throughout the century and critically examine the role that writers and artists have played as both critics and supporters of military actions. We will focus on works by Erich Maria Remarque, Ernst Jünger, Wolfgang Borchert, Georg Kaiser, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Gottfried Benn, Franz Kafka, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Heinrich Böll, Christa Wolf, and others.