Romanian German Perspectives in Literary Texts – A Plea for Use in the Daf/Daz Classes

In recent years, intercultural awareness and a competent comparative cultural approach have once again become the focus of German as a foreign language teaching, in part due to the publication of the CEFR companion volume. Textbooks have also been endeavouring to fulfil this desideratum for years, however, with only moderate success. This makes it all the more important to find authentic texts with which these learning objectives can be achieved. Texts by Romanian-German authors not only thematise these aspects, but in some cases make them the core of their literary statements, as in the case of the texts by Herta Müller. They are therefore a very worthwhile source of authentic teaching material, as this paper will show with regard to some specific aspects.