#74 – Kurzgeschichte auf Deutsch – Bloß weg hier!

A young woman who feels trapped in a life that she absolutely no longer wants. That’s exactly what today’s short story is about. You know, learning with stories is very effective because you are interested in what you are currently dealing with, because a good story also contains excitement and simply ensures that you remain fully focused. And stories are also something that stays with us longer. All of these are reasons why learning with short stories is really very effective and why I also offer it at Deutsches Geplapper. In any case, remember that you can use the podcast transcript for this podcast episode, for this short story and for all other episodes. This means that you can also read along to understand everything. And reading and listening at the same time is also a very effective method of expanding your vocabulary and improving listening comprehension. I hope you enjoy the short story. Welcome to German Chatter. I am Flemming, German coach at Natural Fluent German. This podcast is for you if you want to improve your listening comprehension, expand your vocabulary, get to know real everyday German and find out more about Germany. You can find the transcripts to read along at www.naturalfluentgerman.com. By the way, German chatter is also available on YouTube. And now have fun listening. Hello dear German learner, hello dear German learner, nice that you have tuned in again here at Deutsches Geplapper. And I don’t want to talk to you for too long before I start with the short story. I would just like to say one small thing again, and that is that I am very, very excited about the registrations for my language garden for fluent German. I have been able to take on many, many members who are now devoting themselves to their German and learning very, very intensively with my language garden and improving their German. And that makes me extremely happy. It’s just great to see that there are so many people who are really willing to improve their German. And if you haven’t managed to register for the language garden, then don’t worry. I will definitely open this language garden again in a few months so that you too have the chance to register there. Yes, otherwise, you might see it behind me. I have a different background. If you watch the episode on YouTube, it’s not the background you’re used to. But the podcast remains the one you are used to. I just moved out of my apartment, it was all very stressful, and so I’m in a new environment now. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy this short story. I already said, you can just use the transcript, read along as you go, it will definitely help you get a better understanding of the content. And then you should listen to this episode and this short story at least three times. The more, the better the sentence structures and new vocabulary are memorized. Write down everything, all vocabulary, all parts of sentences, all groups of words that you don’t know, so that you can repeat them regularly. Well, otherwise I’ll start with the short story. Have fun! Just get out of here. Lisa sat silently in front of her desk and stared blankly out the window. It was a lovely afternoon. Warm, sunny, the birds were singing their songs and the leaves of the oak tree that stood outside her window in the yard rustled in the gentle summer breeze. On days like this, Lisa usually didn’t stay in the apartment, but went outside to capture life. But today they didn’t care about the weather or the people passing by on the street below. She didn’t want to know anything about it, didn’t want to see or hear anyone. She just wanted to get away from them. Away from this city where she felt like a prisoner. Crammed in between walls and concrete and nothing but concrete. He had promised her, her friend. Simon wanted to move to the country with her. Somewhere where she would step out the front door in the morning and see meadows and forests. That’s how he pictured it for her. Lisa had been looking forward to this day, longing for it. Now that she thought about it, the morning view from the terrace was the only thing that kept her going in the hell of rocks and wheels and smog that had been her home for the past two years. “How could people voluntarily spend their entire lives here?” she asked herself. But Simon had promised her that everything would change soon. Yes, he did. And yet nothing had changed except his promise. “Lisa, you have to understand me. I’ve been waiting for this opportunity for three years and now it’s finally here. I can’t move away now. Not now that my career is really taking off. Let’s stay here for a few more years. There’s also a lot more going on here. You can do something here every day.” He’d said that after telling her about his promotion. She was happy for him and immediately asked him if the daily driving wouldn’t annoy him. He would have to drive more than an hour every day from their new apartment, which they had looked at last week. She had been perfect. Spacious and quiet, not far from a small lake, but from the industrial landscape further north. Lisa had already seen herself jogging the few kilometers to the lake every morning in the summer, then taking off her sweat-soaked clothes and diving into the refreshing water, into the life she wanted so much. She was very excited for days and had even started packing a moving box with all sorts of small items, even though she knew that the move wouldn’t take place for two months at the earliest. Everything had already been clarified with the landlord. The rental agreement was now on the desk in front of Lisa.