Do you need to interpret a short story in your German class and are looking for a sample interpretation? The volume "Popular Short Stories Interpreted" is here to help you. Inside, you will find analyses and interpretations of the 18 most popular short stories taught in German classes. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the author. All short stories are fully printed, saving you potentially time-consuming searches for the original text. The subsequent sample interpretation, presented as bullet-point suggestions, demonstrates how the linguistic and formal elements of the short story can be easily understood. A structural outline for each short story summarizes all the important information on one page. The following short stories are interpreted: Georg Britting: "Fratricide in the Old Water" (1929), Wolfgang Borchert: "The Bread" (1946), Elisabeth Langg.