The manual contains practical tasks for the collection of short stories by Austrian writers A. Schnitzler, G. von Homanstal, R. M. Rilke, I. Eichinger et al . Properly linguistic and communicative tasks allow you to implement a reading strategy, build monologues based on them, form the ability to analyze and interpret the artistic text in German. It is intended for students of the IV course of training "Pedagogical education (with two training profiles) training profiles "Foreign language (German), foreign language (English)" of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Chuvash State Pedagogical University . and . I. Yakovleva