Mehr Info über die "Bücher für motivierte Studenten "

• Graded German ReaderA systematic introduction to reading German. A wide variety of texts arranged in increasing order of difficulty, ranging from a text on the metric system intended for beginning 101 students to some readable and amusing pieces of fiction and folklore.
• Münchhausens AbenteuerEasy reader version of the stories of Baron Münchhausen, the "lying baron" ["Lügenbaron"] who tells tales of such adventures as his ride on a cannonball, or a visit to the moon.  Terry Gilliam made a movie loosely based on these stories, and an older German movie based on these tales is on reserve at the LRC for part of this semester--see the list of movies on reserve at the LRC.
• Kein Schnaps für TamaraDetective story that begins with the narrator finding the body of a dead girl on a train trip.
• AsterixThis comic book series is actually translated from the French, but is very popular in Germany (Hartmut read it as a kid...). It's about a single village in Gaul that has continued to withstand and infuriate Julius Caesar by virtue of its inhabitants' resourcefulness, stubbornness, and a strength-giving magic potion whose secret is known only to the village druid. Only Obelix, who fell into a vat of the potion as a baby, permanently possesses the strength it gives. We've ordered the first in the series. Worksheets are available to help you through it if you want them--just ask Hartmut.