Kurzgeschichten interpretation wolfgang borchert biography
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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 spillror eller bråte 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 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 t
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The Bread
Short story by Wolfgang Borchert
"The Bread" ("Das Brot") is a short story by Wolfgang Borchert. The story takes places in post-war Germany where food was in short supply.
Background
[edit]Borchert wrote the story in The story was published for the first time in in a literature magazine called Das Karussell.
Plot
[edit]Shortly after World War II in Germany, an older woman wakes up in the dark of the night and catches her husband who is eating an extra slice of their rationed bread. They don't talk about what happened and a perplexed conversation takes place. They end up with the fact that there was nothing and they both woke up because of the wind outside and the sound of the rain gutter. They go back to bed. While they are trying to sleep, she hears her husband secretly eating more bread. The next evening she prepares dinner and gives him an extra slice of her ration of bread under the pretext that in the evening she can't take the bread all that well. T