@BeccaCath - I've done two weeks work experience in a school in Germany, teaching classes both in English and German. I've also done other stuff like helping with a project to teach Y8 kids German through sport, being a language assistant for Y10 and Y11 speaking exams, etc. What literature are you reading? At school we're doing the ultra-crap "Ich fuehl mich so fifty-fifty" which I do NOT class as literature. I have a whole SHELF full of stuff: Brecht, Frisch, Der Vorleser, Der Besuch Der Alten Dame, Faust in translation, Die Weisse Rose, Schiller, Shakespeare in German, a few more modern books like Mieses Karma, which is hilarious, these books for teenagers about best friends falling in love with different guys (you know, the usual), Draussen Vor Der Tuer, Thomas Mann, and my favourite, a book of Goethe's poems. I adore it and carry it around with me so I can analyse them in my spare time. Right now I'm writing an essay comparing the attitudes in
Prometheus with
Grenzen Der Menschheit, and therefore did lots of research into the Sturm und Drang and the Weimarer Klassik movements, which was so interesting.
If you're interested in 20th century German stuff rather than 18th century, though, try "Stasiland" or "Die Weisse Rose", as well as watching Das Leben Der Anderen