Cultures of the city as a starting point for linguistic and cultural diversity and ... and school-transcultural approaches to teaching German

Due to national and international migration -- mainly away from the country and towards urban centres -- linguistic expressions and cultural habits are continuously changing in our society. This development clearly leads to increased linguistic and cultural overlap. One example illustrating this "multilingual metropolis phenomenon" is the neighbourhood language. Its forms of appearance can not only be encountered in larger cities and beyond; it also leads to literary changes and the development of special aesthetic genres such as the "Kanak Sprak". In this context it is obvious that transculturality and everyday multilingualism can no longer be ignored by didactics of German as the first language. Against the background of metropolitan youth language in multi-lingual and multicultural settings and its literary realization, the following contribution will first focus on the term 'transculturality?. Subsequently a model for a transcultural German didactics will be established. Adapted from the source document