Interkulturalität in Hermann Sudermanns "Die Ehre

People are different from other living things by their knowledge and skills. For people information is as essential as basic needs. Information is produced by people and transferred to the next generations. This is how humanity exists in a constantly developing society. It is necessary to transfer the existing knowledge to new generations. The mankind has found different ways to do this, but this transfer is at least a culture transfer and called acculturation. Because the culture of older generations has been transferred to new generations. Culture is not only the transfer of information between generations, but also between the nations. It has been observed that there are differences or similarities between the cultures of different nations after learning something about those cultures. The similarities increase depending on how close the nations are become. One of the values of a society is “honor“ and it is perceived differently in different the societies. The German author Hermann Sudermann examining this concept in his work “Die Ehre” and offers a different perspective. Because the issue handled in this work is one of the fundamental values of all nations, it provides a good source for studies in foreign language courses. Therefore, it is important to analyze this work in foreign language lessons for students to get familiar with cross-cultural understanding.