A language awakening book: Intercultural diversity, comprehensive mediatization, and general turbocharging - the realities of school are changing. A modern German lesson should also respond to this. In this volume, word artist and language mediator Timo Brunke addresses the profound changes in the lives of students. In his systematically structured collection of language games, he guides readers - from exercise to exercise - through six interconnected learning areas: perception, imagination, rhetoric, grammar, poetics, and rhapsody. The sequence of exercises is based on a curriculum that sensitizes students to the expressive possibilities of spoken language, awakens them, and encourages them to engage actively with (their own) texts. In this process, the spoken word consistently proves to be a concrete event that is life itself.