The Vienna Ball in German Language Classes With International Students as a Hypertext and Performative Space

In the era of ever-increasing differentiation of available knowledge, interdisciplinary learning is a promising pedagogical method that allows students to see the relationship between different phenomena and consolidate skills in a broader context. Thus, the training is based on a comprehensive formulation of problems considered in the prism of various disciplines that complement each other. The Vienna Ball, chosen as а topic of German language classes at the Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences, is essentially a hypertext that includes many sub-themes and meanings of a cultural, social, historical, linguistic nature. This phenomenon as a communication platform for politics, business, culture and the media, promotes the deepening of existing economic contacts and friendly relations between peoples, and serves as a platform for supporting charitable projects. The importance of the Vienna Ball for enhancing new international and multicultural contacts is obvious. The article features disclosing the didactic potential of this cultural phenomenon in foreign language teaching in different optics: hypertextual, performative and aesthetic. The Vienna Ball is a spectacular action in a certain place and at a certain time, and, therefore, one of the possible approaches to the topic within the framework of an interdisciplinary method is performance. Performance, as the co-creation of the sender and recipient, is able to generate strong emotions in students and allow them to find a unique vision of problems in the field of social, political or cultural sciences for each individual. This lesson structure is most suitable for undergraduates who are ready for reflection, analysis and systematization of their professional knowledge.