The text volume for the high school graduation topic 2020 in Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia - and for all other federal states as well, since the last school year with the graduation trip in sight is marked everywhere by a spirit of departure and wanderlust. Vanessa Greiff extracts many aspects from the topic. It covers types of travel (on foot, by stagecoach, or by airplane), different kinds of journeys (adventure, cavalier, or educational trips), travel destinations (to Italy, into the mountains, or to the moon), but also the compulsion to embark on a journey (into exile) and the limitations imposed on free travel. This aspect-oriented arrangement enhances the practical usefulness of the anthology for teaching and private exam preparation. It includes poems from the Baroque period to the present: Fleming, Gryphius, Goethe, Schiller, Eichendorff, Rilke, Lasker-Schüler, Benn.