Was bedeutete „Literarische Texte verstehen" im Fremdsprachenunterricht und was kann und könnte es bedeuten?

This article focuses on teaching literary texts in German as a foreign language in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. I start with a discussion of the importance of reading literary texts in current teaching. In the first part, literature teaching in the school context of the canton of Vaud is explained in the context of educational policy. In the second part, I present changes of the role of literature in foreign language teaching from a socio-historical and didactic perspective. In the third part, I discuss perspectives for the teaching of literature within the framework of current action-oriented approaches.