Kurzgeschichten erzählen auf besondere Art: knapp, geradlinig, kommentarlos. Schlaglichtartig beleuchten sie Situationen und Ereignisse. Katastrophen sind ebenso Gegenstand wie ganz alltägliche Begebenheiten: Liebe, Glück, Unglück, Krieg, Gewalt, Tod. Die Materialien im Anhang erläutern die Funktion und Bedeutung der Kurzgeschichte und regen zum kreativen Umgang mit den Texten an.
Rainer Siegle Books
William Tell
- 32 pages
- 2 hours of reading
[Penguin Readers Level 1]William Tell is a good man, but his country is a dangerous place. The Swiss people don’t like the Austrian emperor or his governor in Switzerland. Can William Tell help them in their fight with the Austrians? Or is he a man of peace?
Effi Briest
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation.
Stundenblätter "Emilia Galotti"
- 81 pages
- 3 hours of reading