means of a particular emotional and aesthetic design of the raw material, language becomes a language work and reaches the highest form in poetry. As such, on the other hand, it also encompasses the word literary tradition (myth, legend, fairy tale, proverb, folk song) beyond the wording of the written down. Not all literature is poetry, not all poetry literature in word. " In contrast to this definition, which is not at first intelligible, our most famous literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki determines the literature with regard to the readers: " Literature has to be fun, to make people joy, pleasure and fun and even happiness. " (Spiegel 25/2001) Software Tool Overview Video Reich-Ranicki breaks with the so-called popular distinction between "Höhenkamm-" and "entertainment literary literature." According to Reich-Ranicki, it is true that, in an intelligent manner, we learn from literature. Reading books, "he says in his autobiography My Life ," we wanted to understand " above all ourselves ."