Oxford German Network | Oxford German Olympiad 2014

1914: The Competition Tasks

Years 5 and 6:

Draw and label your classroom and yourself/friends as you might have looked in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in 1914.
Design a poster for a German, Austrian or Swiss company or product from this time, and add a description of the company or product.
Design a front cover for satirical magazine Simplicissimus, and add a description of your cover.

Years 7 to 9:

Design a film poster for a silent film from 1914 and write a blurb about the film.
Create an illustrated newspaper report on an event in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in 1914, or a newspaper advert for a German business in London (or in your city).
Create a brochure advertising Germany as a holiday destination (before World War I).

Years 10 and 11:

Write an account of an event that took place in 1914 from the perspective of a person who actually existed.
Make your own silent film based on a German-language story written or published between 1900 and 1914, and write a blurb for the film.
Read a German-language story published between 1900 and 1914. Write a story in response to it.

Years 12 and 13:

Write an essay or short story about any one event or any one figure from political, social, cultural or scientific life in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in 1914.
Write a German letter from the Front to a friend.
Analyse how Erich Maria Remarque's WWI novel Im Westen nichts Neues conveys the experience of war, or write a poem or short story based on one of the episodes.
Make a short silent film with subtitles based on a German-language story from 1914.

Open Competition for Groups or Classes (4+ participants)

Create a play or film about any aspect of life, events, society or culture in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in 1914.
Create an exhibition and/or website about any aspect of life, events, society or culture in 1914 for German, Austrian or Swiss visitors/users.

[Image above: Franz Marc, Tirol (1914)]