VIDEO: Parabolic features in German

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You are wondering what parabolic characteristics im German-classes come on? Which authors wrote important parables? And what makes the parable different from other narratives? Learn more about it here?

Parabola - the main features

  1. Parable comes from the Greek and means application.
  2. The parable is based on a parable that is expanded into a narrative. Thus the parabola is based on a parable, which also gives the name of the parabola.
  3. It is essential for a parable that it has an educational core.
  4. The reader should be brought closer to a social, religious or philosophical truth by means of a parable.
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  5. Already in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, the parable was fundamental as a narrative form for understanding texts. These old parables have been explained and interpreted particularly frequently using the example of the "prodigal son" from the New Testament.
  6. It is important that every single part of a parabola can be viewed according to reality. But the complete sense of a parabola only emerges through the whole story a parable.
  7. The fable is also based on the parable. The fable contains an educational punch line that is only revealed at the end of the story.

Works in German lessons

  1. Significant works within the literary genre of parables are the ring parables in Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" or "Before the Law" by Kafka.
  2. "Before the Law" by Franz Kafka is also known under the "Doorkeeper Parable". The interpretation of this parable remains open and varied.
  3. Kafka's parable, for example, can be interpreted against his own biographical background. He worked as a lawyer in Prague for many years, although he was reluctant to pursue this work.

As a lesson, parabolic features are often dealt with in German lessons. There are above all those Parabolas very popular with Lessing and Kafka. With Kafka in particular, however, one interpretation is open. It is not without good reason that dark and mysterious stories are said to be Kafkaesque. Essentially, parables are related to reality and want to instruct or clarify something for the reader.

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