Resumen:
This article draws on a teaching experience in the form of a literary conversation in a German as a foreign language class and presents didactic approaches to the travel report The Walk from Rostock to Syracuse by F.C. Delius. As it thematises the motif of the educative journey as a longing for education and freedom, the work is analyzed in a close relation to the genre of the Bildungsreise based on classical models such as the Italian journey of Seume and Goethe. The literary educative journey leads the learners into a wider contextual knowledge as traveling in times of the German separation. As educative aspects of the reading, strangeness and aesthetic experience are taken into reflection by adopting different didactic methods such as the focus and integration method. In order to reach an adequate reading comprehension, learners are challenged by coping with the intertextuality and hybridity of the text.
