Short Stories By Wolfgang Borchert In FLT

Abstract

The article approaches the potential of short stories by Wolfgang Borchert in FLT at students majoring German at the Faculty of Education in Hradec Kralove (the Czech Republic) because it is important for them as future teachers to understand the post-war situation in Germany so that they shall be able to explain both the historical-social changes and the development in the second half of the 20th century to their own pupils. The students’ knowledge and their interest in post-war Germany situation, in Wolfgang Borchert as a typical author of rubble literature and in the short stories as a literary genre were shown and compared through a questionnaire survey at the beginning and at the end of the literary elective seminar in the winter term 2018. This text presents in practical examples the possibilities how foreign language lessons can be enriched with a literary text about the post-war situation. Emphasized are the timelessness and the timeliness of the topic, the practice of existing foreign language skills during seminars activities, highlighted is the growth of students’ interest in the topic, the practice of existing foreign language skills during seminars activities, as well as the tendency of students to compare their present situation with the everyday life of the post-war period.]