The book "Steinig: Orthography" by Wolfgang Steinig and Karl Heinz Ramers offers a comprehensive introduction to the spelling of the German language. It is aimed at students as well as educators and seeks to acquire and solidify orthographic competencies. Through the linguistic reconstruction of orthographic regulations, key aspects such as grapheme-phoneme relationships, capitalization, hyphenation and compounding, foreign word spelling, and punctuation are addressed. The work also reflects didactic approaches that support the acquisition and stabilization of these competencies. The combination of a systematic-linguistic and didactic perspective makes this book a valuable resource for curriculum development and the study of linguistics.