The article is an analysis of Germany’s role in the eurozone crisis. It consists of three parts that subsequently present: 1) the concept and the reasons of eurozone crisis from the German point of view; 2) premises of the Germany’s role and challenges for Germany in the crisis mentioned above as well as 3) conclusion resulting from the crisis for new role of Germany in the EU. The timeframe of the analysis encompasses years 2010-13. The basic thesis of the article is: Christian democrat and liberal government led by chancellor Angela Merkel due to a giant economic and financial potential of Germany took a key role in actions for overcoming problems of indebtedness, saving and stabilization of the eurozone. Germany pushing forward with strategy of rigorous austerity within the frames of so-called fiscal pact from March 1st, 2012 did not gain a common approval in the eurozone, exposing itself for serious criticism on the part of indebted states, especially Greece. For its part Germany as a biggest creditor and guarantor of established financial instruments bear extraordinary risk in case of a default of the most heavily indebted southern eurozone states. The above mentioned situation gives birth to many domestic German fears and controversies signaled in the article in spite of the fact that since the end of 2013 some slight displays of improvement in the economic situation and in partial stabilization of the eurozone appeared.

In this article, the author is presenting – in the Polish German Philology – a new research literary method; in the German Philology – a main research literary method from the 90’s-a literary anthropology. The aforementioned literary research method is particularly important for exploration of the 18th century, when philosophy and philosophical anthropology were significant reference points for the literature and they both determined a present-day vision of the human being. Reaching back to the source texts allowed the author to polemicize with the widespread opinions, for example with a thesis about the potential faith of the Enlightenment in the almighty reasoning or possibly ignoring the reflective senses of the human being. The awareness of the imperfect sense apparatus of the human being and the need to improve it led to the inception of aesthetics.

The article is devoted to the attitude of writers from the GDR and the FRG to the construction and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The reactions in the RFG were varied, but there prevailed protest and indignation with the situation, whereas the GDR writers mostly supported the action of the authorities. Reactions to the fall of the Wall in 1989 were almost completely opposite: there were the writers from the GDR who responded first and protested against the reunification of Germany, receiving some unexpected support from the FRG writers – former critics of the construction of the Wall. This position should be, among others, explained by the popularity of the idea of the „third way“ among the intellectuals from both German countries, as well as by the attachment to the system of those writers who remained in the GDR until 1989.

The article aims at a description of „parliamentary speeches in European Parliament“ as political texts in the context of criteria resulting from existing classification of the types of political texts and complemented by external factors unique for the situation in European Parliament with a direct reflection in the language of politicians. 

As example follows an analysis of the speech of the German MEP Jens Geier on the expenditures on the building of the House of the European History.

The primary aim of the paper is to integrate two conceptions of discourse. The paper discusses the concept of discourse developed by American linguist such as R. Langacker concept (1987, 1991, 2009) which can be integrated with text linguistics developed by German linguists such as K. Adamzik (2001), W. Heinemann (2002) and the method of discourse linguistics (Spitzmüller/Warnke 2011).