Magazine Tip: „FLUTER“
fluter is the youth magazine published by Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education. Released four times a year, each issue dives into one main topic – ranging from democracy and elections to climate change, digital culture, pop culture, or global conflicts. The magazine offers background knowledge, explains current debates, provides arguments for discussion, and shares real-life experiences from different perspectives. All editions are free to read, available both in print and as downloadable PDFs. In short, fluter makes complex social and political issues engaging and accessible for young readers.
Besides magazines, books are of course a great way to get to know the German literary language. As the language is often times a little bit too complex, several German publishing houses offer original literature in a shortened and/or simplified version to make the reading experience for beginners more enjoyable. Here is little selection of publishing houses and book series which could help you improve your German.
Here’s our list:
The Easy Readers series published by Klett offers both classic and modern German novels and short stories in simplified language. The series contains a variety of books by well-known German writers from different periods of the 20th century – from childhood classics such as Emil und die Detektive to historical books like Die Weiße Rose.
Tatort DaF is another series by Klett and offers “Krimis” (crime stories) for the language level A2 – B2. Just like the popular German crime show Tatort, the novels are located in different German cities and regions such as Hamburg or the Bodensee region.
Die DaF-Bibliothek published by Cornelsen boasts a great selection of novels from different genres, ranging from soap operas to crime stories. All of the books include illustrations, details about the respective regions and a glossary. They are also available as MP3s.
Liebaug-Dartmann, a small publishing house based in Meckenheim, not only has its own series of German grammar books in different languages, but also publishes small and nicely designed novels for both younger people and adults. The novels are suitable for beginners in the A2 level and contain additional information about vocabulary, grammar and different German regions.
Enjoy!
