Buchners Kompendium Deutsche Literatur

The new literary history "Buchner's Compendium of German Literature" offers exemplary texts with interpretations, student-friendly biographies, historical backgrounds, questions on literary foundational knowledge, etc., in the spirit of a competence-oriented German language instruction. A consistent principle throughout the entire compendium is thematic and genre-historical longitudinal analyses.

Each chapter on the different epochs consists of seven sections:
1. An introductory guide text providing an overview of the epoch
2. A brief summary of the most important historical events and the context of the authors and their works
3. A tabular overview of other significant authors and individual work titles
4. A selection of important authors with short biographies, text selections, and interpretations of individual works
5. Important terminology, notes on literary awards, literary groups, etc.
6. Outlooks: further texts on contemporary references and perspectives that counteract mere accumulation of learning knowledge
7. Summaries and motivating questions to verify secured knowledge and promote judgment competence.