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Michaela Kováčová, Veronika Jurková

• Da Freundschaften eine zentrale Rolle im Leben der Jugendlichen spielen und Schule nicht nur einen Bildungs-, sondern auch einen Erziehungsauftrag hat, ist es naheliegend, das Thema "Freundschaft" auch in den Deutschunterricht zu integrieren. [...] Die im schulischen Unterricht verwendeten Lehrwerke bieten zwar reichlich Material zum Thema "Freundschaft", der Einsatz von einem Spielfilm kann den Unterricht jedoch nicht nur medial bereichern, sondern auch die Schüler und Schülerinnen animieren, auf eine besondere Weise intensiv an ihren Sprachkompetenzen zu arbeiten und zugleich ihre interkulturellen und medialen Kompetenzen zu entwickeln.
• The article focusses on film education in foreign language education and documents a school project with a film based on Erich Kästner's novel "Das fliegende Klassenzimmer [The Flying Classroom]". The central topic of the novel and the film is friendship. Therefore, the first part deals with the role of friendship in adolescence. The second part is devoted to didactics of film-based education in the language classroom. The main component of the paper is the description and evaluation of a school project with the film "Das fliegende Klassenzimmer [The Flying Classroom]", put into practice on a sample of pupils from Slovak secondary schools. The evaluation was conducted in a quasi-experimental framework without a control group. Empirical results indicate that the pupils performed significantly better in the posttest in culture specific knowledge, vocabulary as well as in language- and film-competency. The discussion with the pupils showed that they were content with the classes and pointed out some advantages and problems of film-based education. The study concludes with a reflection by the teacher and recommendations for future film classes in language education.