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The commemorative publication "Didactica, Cultura, Lingua - Perspectives of German" is a collection of contributions dedicated to Ulrich Steinmüller on his 80th birthday. The first part of the commemorative publication honors Steinmüller's contribution to the development of German language teaching in China. The second part deals with various topics in the field of culture and language, such as the significance of debating in German as a foreign language instruction and the role of media in learning. The third part addresses linguistic topics, such as the acquisition of spatial expressions in children with German as a second language and vocabulary in narrative texts by students with German as a mother tongue, second language, and foreign language. The fourth part presents contributions from the academic junior sector. The commemorative publication is a significant contribution to German-Chinese scientific cooperation. [Extracted from the article]

The present text is a book review of the work "Literary and Everyday Narration from a (Foreign) Language Didactic Perspective" by Renate Riedner and Simone Schiedermair. The book examines the significance of storytelling in German language teaching for foreign and second language speakers and develops didactic concepts to integrate everyday and literary storytelling into the classroom. The anthology "Narration" contains contributions on various aspects of storytelling, such as the use of poetic structures in creative writing in primary school, storytelling in welcome classes for teenagers, and the possibilities of interactive German learning at Egyptian universities. Other topics include the narration of refugee stories, the visual poetry of Ernst Jandl, and the importance of storytelling in language teaching. [Extracted from the article]