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This article looks into the photojournalism of "Heute," a magazine produced by German American civilians. Framework of the biweekly photojournalism of "Heute"; Core elements of image-making discernible in the transition from fascism to "Heute"; Strategies developed by the photojournal to involve the installation of special effects into ordinary-yet-inspiring imagery of daily life.

The article presents views of several editors of the periodical on Heimat, an idealized view of country life in Southern Germany. Kata Gellen, one of the editors of the periodical feels that Heimat has become desubjectivized. She informs that some of the articles published in the periodical explore how Heimat is constructed and deconstructed in literature and motion pictures and the political and social implications of these cultural acts. She feels that Heimat is a serious matter and important from cultural analysis point of view.

The article offers information on the major writers embedded in the canonical dimensions in relation German literature in Germany. It states that authors Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka have made older literary world come alive for the present students. It notes that Mann is self-conscious in his relations to the literary past and to his own writerly vocation, while Kafka generates endless innovative responses.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including pedagogy of literature and German studies.