Basal reader
The term reading book refers to a collection of texts or sections of text for the purpose of learning to read and the study of literary texts.
School reader
The school reader was already in the Latin schools of the Middle Ages, the Christian theological texts mediated. In the 15-16. Century joined the Realienbuch added with materials from nature and the environment. The Reformation influenced modern times differs in the school curriculum from the reader continue Bible, Catechism and Primer for the mediation of the alphabet (ABC - book ).
The reading book as an educational medium with moral purpose was exemplified in Eberhard von Rochow Childfriend 1776, which sought with sample stories to achieve the socialization into society. Based on the Catechism of the text was to understand its meaning and collectively to memorize.
In the 19th and early 20th century, reading books devoted by Enlightenment from roots and the growing nationalism. We first examined the attitude formation through poetry ( " German anthology " ) to convey one set, for example, since the German reading book Philipp Wackernagel 1843 aware of the national education and training, which is about falling back to the Middle Ages an alleged " German character " idealized and moralistic Exempeln the attitude to church, the emperor and family to work and obedience trained. These were in addition to the original texts, sayings, parables or fables.
National Socialism provided the reading books, drawing on romanticized blood - and-soil ideology with racist- nationalist ideas.
While reading books in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany a retreat into an apolitical the homeland competed ( seven ears of corn or silver freight), you sat in the reading books of the GDR in reliance on progressive literature traditions on the one hand on a consistent accounting with fascism, on the other hand, with the Cold War on the delimitation of the West and an ideological integration into the camp of "actually existing socialism ".
After criticism over the provincialism of the previous reading books emerged in the 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany a variety of reading books about the literary work book that was strongly contested by conservatives.
Due to the growing media diversity in the classroom, the debate on the reading book is ebbing. Its importance is preserved, among the many media.
Anthology
The term reading book has been preserved for the literary anthology for a wider reading public.
For notoriety came here and Others
- German Reader ( Hofmannsthal ), ed: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1922/23,
- German Reader. From Luther to Liebknecht, eds: Stephan Hermlin, 1976