Reading book
The term reading book refers to a collection of texts or text sections for the purpose of reading how to learn and the study of literary texts.
School reading book
The school reading book appeared in the Latin schools of the Middle Ages , conveying Christian theological texts. In the 15./16. In the 20th century, the Realienbuch was added with materials from nature and the environment. The modern age, shaped by the Reformation, continues to distinguish between the Bible , the catechism and the primer for teaching the alphabet ( ABC book ) in school reading from the reading book .
The reader as an educational medium with moral purpose was exemplified in Eberhard von Rochow Childfriend 1776, which with Example stories the socialization tried to reach into society. Based on the catechism lessons, the text had to be understood and its meaning had to be learned by heart in summary .
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, readers turned away from their Enlightenment roots and towards growing nationalism . They sought first the Ethos education by sealing ( "German Chrestomathie ") to convey, they sat for. For example, since Philipp Wackernagel's German reading book in 1843, consciously on national education and upbringing, which idealized an alleged "German being" with reference to the Middle Ages and raised the attitude to the church, emperor and family, to work and obedience in moralizing examples. In addition to original texts, sayings , parables and fables were used .
The Nazis knew that reading books by resorting to romanticized blood and soil -Gedankengut with racist - nationalist ideas.
While reading books in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany a retreat in a non-political Heimatlichkeit competed ( Seven ears or silver load ), they sat in the reading books of the GDR in resorting to progressive literary traditions on the one hand on a consistent billing with fascism, on the other hand, to the Cold War on the demarcation from the West and an ideological integration into the camp of " real existing socialism ".
After the criticism of the provincialism of the previous reading books, a large number of different reading books emerged in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s, such as the literary workbook , which was heavily attacked by the conservative side.
Due to the growing variety of media in school lessons, the debate about the reading book has ebbed.
anthology
The expression reading book has also been preserved for the literary anthology for a wider reading public.
To fame came u. a.
- German reading book (Hofmannsthal) , Ed .: Hugo von Hofmannsthal , 1922/23
- German reading book. From Luther to Liebknecht , ed .: Stephan Hermlin , 1976, Reclam 1990 ISBN 3-379-00239-9
literature
- Swantje Ehlers (Ed.): The reading book. On the theory and practice of the reader in German lessons (= German Discussion Forum; Vol. 12). Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2003, ISBN 3-89676-724-0 .
- Brigitte Hauschild: A reading book exhibition in the Giessen University Library (= reports and works from the Giessen University Library; 24/1975). University of Giessen, Giessen 1975 ( digitized version ).
- Hermann Helmers: History of the German Reader in Basics . Klett, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-12-923540-X .
- Roland Kaufhold : Learning to read in the first class of elementary school with the "little white duck". Book review on D. Mauthe-Schonig, B. Schonig, M. Speichert: Learning to read in the beginning lessons. Workbook with stories about the “little white duck” and psychological and methodological-didactic tips. Weinheim / Basel 2000 ( Roland Kaufhold - books, reviews, texts & links ).
- Walther Killy : On the history of the German reading book . In: Eberhard Lämmert (Hrsg.): Germanistik, a German science. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 1967.
- Hermann Korte, Ilonka Zimmer (ed.): The reading book 1800–1945. A medium between literary culture and educational discourse. Lectures of the 2nd Siegen Symposium on Research on Literature Didactics (= Siegener Schriften zur Canonforschung; Vol. 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-631-55874-0 .
- Robert Minder : Reader as an explosive. Shown using French and German examples. In: Robert Minder: The discovery of the German mentality. Essays. Reclam, Leipzig 1992 and Readers Again or Why Literature? In: Robert Minder: Why literature? Speeches and essays. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 1971.
- Peter Martin Roeder: On the history and criticism of the high school reading book (= Marburg Pedagogical Studies; Vol. 2). Beltz, Weinheim / Bergstrasse 1961.
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