Fifteen short stories selected to offer a comprehensive overview of German 20th-century, short-story literature. Due to the simplicity of the stories presented, this title can be used with students from their second year of study of German. Kurzgeschichten includes short stories by some famous authors (Boll, Durrenmatt, Borchert, ecc.) and is divided into four themes: • the realistic short story • a world of symbols • modern fairy tales • short stories crossing the borders of reality