The textbook offers a compact and concise presentation of the mechanics of elastic bodies and structures. It limits the content to the essentials while also bridging to specialized disciplines such as structural and solid mechanics, as well as the increasingly important field of computer-oriented mechanics. After an introduction to the fundamentals, it addresses planar problems, spatial problems, variational and energy principles. Further chapters focus on the mechanics of plates, rotational shells, and planar laminates. This book is intended for students of mechanical engineering and civil engineering at universities and universities of applied sciences, as well as for professionals and practitioners in industry and research. TOC: Fundamentals, planar problems, spatial problems, variational and energy principles, plates, rotational shells, planar laminates, appendix, literature, English technical terms, index.