Kulturlandschaft Riesengebirge – Erforschung durch die Reiseliteratur und deren Didaktisierung

How to encourage students to read Enlightment literature in a foreign language? This article presents a proven method of working with German philology students with the travel literature of the 18th century. The described project was aimed at increasing the knowledge of students about a region, that is extremely interesting in terms of culture, namely about the Giant Mountains. The Giant Mountains, the border line between Bohemia and Silesia, have been described in various ways in the literature – in the case of aesthetic literature and non-fictional travel reports. The article is devoted to the history of early tourism in the Giant Mountains and the description of the authors of travel texts that were read with students as part of the project. An appropriate project implementation plan is the key to success: the aim is the simultaneous satisfaction of students and their language progress, as well as increasing the knowledge about the history of the studied region. The explanation of the way the project was implemented was described in the second part of the article, opening the possibility of its universal application among students of foreign philologies.