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Show From Gotten berg Visiting prof no sour kraut By BRENT CURTIS Chronicle Staff Dr. Jacob Steiner is very courteous, cour-teous, has a charming smile, plus conservative but impecable dress to give the appearance of a Euro pean gentleman. He is in fact much more. Dr. Steiner is vising the University for fall quarter, as an alumni professor of German. Considered one of the leading Germamsts in the world, he is only 45. , s 'V ' '" : i ' v l v While serving as chairman of the Department of German at the University of Gottingen in Germany, Ger-many, Prof. Steiner was asked to come teach two courses at the University. He instructs Modern Occidental Drama, which not only concerns German authors, but also authors such as Thorton Wilder and Samuel Beckett," and a course on Gottfried Benn, a 20th century poet. On the students at the University as compared to the students he teaches in Germany, Prof. Steiner said,"They are in some ways different dif-ferent of course and one thing I appreciate highly is that students here are much more relaxed than over in Europe. They are. . . well, behaving more naturally I would say." As far as class instruction is concerned, con-cerned, "I appreciate the seminar discussion. I think it is a better way than lecturing only and I try to introduce to students my new points of view on literature. And in my two classes I have really good students. The discussion is on the high academic level." In addition to a long list of articles published in literary and scholarly magazines, Dr. Steiner has written several books, including includ-ing "Interpretation of the Duino Elegies" and "The Stage Direction," Direc-tion," which is a new point of view on drama discussing "the contention between spoken dialogue dia-logue and stage direction." Presently Pres-ently he is working on a larger publication expounding on the same idea and he is also writing a book on Franz Kafka, an Austrian novelist. Dr. Jacob Steiner, visiting alumni with his students in the" professor of languages, hopes to rna" University atJ play ping-pong and drink beer -Photo by John Fit Prof. Steiner noted a difference in the teacher-student relationship in the "States" as compared to Europe. "In Europe, you feel a little bit of a bar between your offical role and your real self. Here there is more human contact with everybody." Prof. Steiner said that he hoped to have a good relationship with his students, "not only in class, but outside the classroom also." And then he added with a smile, "perhaps go and have a beer or play ping-pong." |
