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Key Facts: Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur German Exam

4 Themen / 3 Aufgabenarten

Candidates choose and sign one of four Themen at each Anforderungsniveau, covering three Aufgabenarten families

Hinweise zur Abiturprüfung 2026 Deutsch, bildung-lsa.de

255 / 315 min

Written Bearbeitungszeit including Auswahlzeit at grundlegendem and erhöhtem Anforderungsniveau

Hinweise zur Abiturprüfung 2026 Deutsch, bildung-lsa.de

28.04.2026

Written Deutsch date in the 2026 main session; Nachtermin 03.06.2026, mündliche Prüfungen from 11 May 2026

Verwaltungsvorschrift Terminplan zur Abiturprüfung 2026, landesrecht.sachsen-anhalt.de

0 Pflichtlektüre

No centrally prescribed literary reading list; texts are chosen locally by teachers and Fachkonferenzen within the Fachlehrplan's framework

Struktur der schriftlichen Abiturprüfungen Deutsch, bildung-lsa.de

0–15 Punkte

Grading scale for each Prüfungsfach, from Note 1 (15–13 Punkte) to Note 6 (0 Punkte)

Verordnung über die gymnasiale Oberstufe, Sachsen-Anhalt

200 / 100 Punkte

Minimum Gesamtqualifikation: 200+ from Block I (§38) and 100+ from the five Prüfungselemente in Block II (§39), out of 900 maximum

Verordnung über die gymnasiale Oberstufe, Sachsen-Anhalt

Free 100-question English-language MCQ study bank for Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur Deutsch, mapped to the Fachlehrplan's literary-history, Lyrik, Drama, Epik, Sprachreflexion and Erörterung Gegenstandsfelder. Official exam: German-language Klausur, choose 1 of 4 Themen; 255 min (gA) / 315 min (eA) including Auswahlzeit; written date 28.04.2026. No fixed national Pflichtlektüre; not an official-format simulation; no fee for regular school candidates.

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1The Fachlehrplan Deutsch for the Sachsen-Anhalt Qualifikationsphase frames literary history 'von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart.' Which 18th-century movement, associated with Immanuel Kant's call to 'have courage to use your own understanding' (Sapere aude), marks this historical starting point?
A.Aufklärung
B.Romantik
C.Expressionismus
D.Naturalismus
Explanation: The Aufklärung (Enlightenment), roughly 1720-1800, promoted reason, individual autonomy, and critique of religious and political authority; Kant's 1784 essay 'Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?' gave the era its defining motto, 'Sapere aude' (dare to know). The Fachlehrplan explicitly anchors its literary-historical Gegenstandsfeld in this epoch as the earliest point students may study.
2Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama 'Nathan der Weise' (1779), famous for its Ringparabel promoting religious tolerance among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is a defining work of which epoch?
A.Aufklärung
B.Sturm und Drang
C.Weimarer Klassik
D.Realismus
Explanation: Lessing's 'Nathan der Weise' dramatizes Enlightenment ideals of reason, tolerance, and humanity through the Ringparabel, in which a father's three sons each believe they hold the one true ring, and a judge counsels each to prove his ring genuine through virtuous living rather than dogmatic claims to exclusive truth.
3The brief but influential literary movement of the 1770s and early 1780s, associated with the young Goethe and Schiller and prizing raw feeling, genius, and rebellion against convention, is known by which name?
A.Sturm und Drang
B.Biedermeier
C.Vormärz
D.Naturalismus
Explanation: Sturm und Drang (literally 'storm and stress'), roughly 1765-1785, took its name from a play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger and rejected Enlightenment rationalism in favor of subjective feeling, individual genius, and defiance of social and aesthetic norms — a direct forerunner to Romantic sensibility.
4Goethe's early epistolary novel 'Die Leiden des jungen Werthers' (1774), whose emotional intensity provoked a wave of imitation across Europe (the so-called 'Werther-Fieber'), belongs to which literary epoch?
A.Sturm und Drang
B.Weimarer Klassik
C.Romantik
D.Poetischer Realismus
Explanation: 'Die Leiden des jungen Werthers' is the paradigmatic Sturm-und-Drang novel: its unrestrained emotional subjectivity, rejection of bourgeois convention, and tragic ending exemplify the movement's cult of feeling over reason, published five years before Goethe moved to Weimar.
5Weimarer Klassik is conventionally dated from Goethe's return from his Italian journey (1786-1788) to Schiller's death in 1805 (sometimes extended to Goethe's death in 1832). Which ideal did this epoch's aesthetic program most centrally pursue?
A.A harmonious balance of form and content modeled on classical antiquity (the Humanitätsideal)
B.Fragmentary irony and the primacy of the unconscious
C.Photographically precise depiction of industrial misery
D.Montage and simultaneity of fragmented urban impressions
Explanation: Weimarer Klassik pursued 'edle Einfalt und stille Größe' (noble simplicity and quiet grandeur, borrowing Winckelmann's phrase for ancient Greek art), aiming at harmonious, humane self-cultivation (Humanitätsideal) achieved through balanced form — visible in works such as Goethe's 'Iphigenie auf Tauris' and Schiller's 'Wilhelm Tell.'
6The famous decade-long literary partnership and correspondence (1794-1805) that anchors Weimarer Klassik and shaped works such as Schiller's 'Wallenstein' trilogy and Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' was between which two writers?
A.Goethe and Schiller
B.Novalis and Tieck
C.Heine and Börne
D.Brecht and Weill
Explanation: The Weimarer Freundschaft between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, beginning in 1794, is one of the most productive collaborations in German literary history, and their exchange of letters and mutual critique underpins the classical aesthetic program associated with Weimar.
7The Romantik movement (roughly 1795-1840) is most closely associated with which recurring motif of yearning for the infinite and the unattainable?
A.Sehnsucht and the symbol of the blaue Blume (blue flower)
B.the Verfremdungseffekt of epic theater
C.the Sekundenstil of documentary realism
D.the montage aesthetics of the modern metropolis
Explanation: Sehnsucht (longing) — for love, nature, the infinite, the medieval past, or a mystical unity beyond everyday reality — pervades Romantic literature, and the blaue Blume became its emblematic symbol after Novalis introduced it in his 1802 novel fragment 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen.'
8Which symbol, introduced in Novalis's unfinished novel fragment 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen' (1802), became the emblem of Romantic longing for the unattainable?
A.die blaue Blume
B.der Steppenwolf
C.die Blechtrommel
D.der Zauberberg
Explanation: The protagonist Heinrich dreams of a mysterious blue flower whose search structures the entire Romantic quest for the infinite, art, love, and self-discovery; the blaue Blume has since become shorthand across German literary history for Romantic Sehnsucht itself.
9Joseph von Eichendorff's poem 'Mondnacht' opens: 'Es war, als hätt der Himmel / Die Erde still geküsst.' Which Romantic theme does this image of a silent kiss between sky and earth most directly express?
A.a mystical, harmonious union of soul and nature
B.an ironic critique of bourgeois marriage customs
C.a documentary account of rural poverty
D.a satirical portrait of Prussian bureaucracy
Explanation: 'Mondnacht' stages nature and the human soul dissolving into one another in a moment of quiet, almost pantheistic unity; the personified sky's kiss of the earth is a classic Romantic image of correspondence between inner feeling and outer landscape, culminating in the soul's imagined flight home ('als flöge sie nach Haus').
10Literary historians commonly divide Romantik into an earlier and a later phase. Which pairing correctly distinguishes 'Frühromantik,' centered in Jena around theoretical and philosophical writing, from 'Spätromantik,' centered in Heidelberg and Berlin and more oriented toward folk tradition?
A.Frühromantik: Novalis and the Schlegel brothers in Jena; Spätromantik: Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, and E.T.A. Hoffmann in Heidelberg/Berlin
B.Frühromantik: Goethe and Schiller in Weimar; Spätromantik: Lessing in Hamburg
C.Frühromantik: Büchner in Darmstadt; Spätromantik: Hauptmann in Berlin
D.Frühromantik: Brecht in Augsburg; Spätromantik: Kafka in Prague
Explanation: Frühromantik (roughly 1795-1804), centered on the Jena circle around Novalis and August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel, developed the movement's philosophical and aesthetic theory (Universalpoesie, Romantic irony). Spätromantik (roughly 1804-1840), centered on Heidelberg and later Berlin, turned toward folk song collection (Arnim and Brentano's 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn') and the uncanny fantastic tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann.

About the Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur German Exam

Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur Deutsch is the state German-language and literature examination for the Allgemeine Hochschulreife, taken as a Leistungsfach, a written Grundfach or an oral Prüfungsfach under the Oberstufenverordnung. Deutsch is one of Sachsen-Anhalt's three obligatorische Kernfächer (alongside Mathematik and Geschichte), belegungspflichtig across all four Kurshalbjahre of the Qualifikationsphase. Its content follows the Fachlehrplan Deutsch Gymnasium (Stand 01.08.2022): literary texts and motifs from at least two epochs spanning the Aufklärung to the Gegenwart, a Lyrikreihe, structurally varied epic works (Roman, Erzählung, Novelle) and dramas (aristotelisches, klassisches and episches Theater), pragmatic-text analysis and Erörterung, materialgestütztes Schreiben, and reflection on language, communication models and Sprachwandel. Unlike some other Bundesländer, Sachsen-Anhalt sets no single centrally fixed Pflichtlektüre list — teachers choose class texts together with students, guided by Lektüreempfehlungen within the Fachlehrplan's framework, which is why the written exam's Interpretation tasks work from unseen literary extracts rather than a shared prescribed novel or play. This free bank of 100 original multiple-choice questions is an English-language study adaptation designed to build and check factual and analytical command of that content. It is not a simulation of the official exam, which is written in German and answered in extended prose based on source texts.

Exam sponsor: Ministerium für Bildung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt (MB), supported by the Landesinstitut für Schulqualität und Lehrerbildung (LISA) and the Landesschulamt. The requirements and fees below concern the certification or admission exam, separate from our free practice resources.

Assessment

Official written Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur examination in Deutsch, sat either as Leistungsfach (erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau) or Grundfach (grundlegendes Anforderungsniveau); Deutsch can also be taken as an oral Prüfungsfach. Both niveaus receive four Themen built on texts the candidate has generally not seen before (up to roughly 1,500 words for textbezogene Aufgaben, up to roughly 2,000 words for the materialgestützte Aufgabe); the candidate selects and confirms exactly one Thema by ticking a box and signing. Because Sachsen-Anhalt leaves the choice of literary class texts to individual Fachkonferenzen and teachers within the Fachlehrplan's gattungs- and literaturgeschichtlichen Rahmen, the exam deliberately omits any Aufgabenart requiring knowledge of one shared, centrally prescribed literary work. This 100-question bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation only — it does not reproduce the German-language free-response format.

Time Limit

Written: 255 minutes at grundlegendem Anforderungsniveau and 315 minutes at erhöhtem Anforderungsniveau, both figures including Auswahlzeit, under the annually re-issued 'Hinweise zur Abiturprüfung Deutsch' and the RdErl. 'Vorbereitung und Durchführung der Abiturprüfung.' Only a Wörterbuch der deutschen Rechtschreibung conforming to the amtliches Regelwerk is permitted as an aid. In 2026 the written Deutsch date was Tuesday 28 April 2026 (Nachtermin Wednesday 3 June 2026); mündliche Prüfungen began 11 May 2026 and Zeugnisse were issued by 3 July 2026.

Passing Score

Subject performance is reported on the 0–15 Punkte scale (Note 1 = 15–13 Punkte, Note 6 = 0 Punkte). The Gesamtqualifikation requires at least 200 of a possible 600 Punkte in Block I from the Kurshalbjahresergebnisse (§38 Oberstufenverordnung) and at least 100 of a possible 300 Punkte in Block II from the five Prüfungsfächer/-elemente in vierfacher Wertung (§39), with no element scored 0, at least 4 Punkte in each element and at least 20 Punkte in vierfacher Wertung in three or more elements including one auf erhöhtem Anforderungsniveau. The 900-point maximum is converted to the Abitur-Durchschnittsnote via the national KMK table.

Exam / Certification Fees

No exam fee for regular enrolled school candidates; the Abitur is a state school examination in Sachsen-Anhalt. External and Nichtschüler routes are handled by the Landesschulamt and do not carry a published Deutsch-specific fee.

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Our practice resources: topics covered

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Study emphasis ~22%

Literaturgeschichte: Epochenüberblick

Aufklärung, Sturm und Drang, Weimarer Klassik, Romantik, Vormärz/Biedermeier, Poetischer Realismus, Naturalismus, Expressionismus, Neue Sachlichkeit, Nachkriegs-, DDR- and Gegenwartsliteratur.

Study emphasis ~18%

Lyrik: Gedichtinterpretation und Verslehre

lyrisches Ich, Metrum, Reimschema, Kadenz, Sonettform, Enjambement, Lyrikreihen and vergleichende Interpretation.

Study emphasis ~14%

Dramenanalyse

Freytags Pyramide, aristotelisches versus episches Theater, bürgerliches Trauerspiel, geschlossene/offene Form, Personenkonstellation und Konflikt.

Study emphasis ~14%

Epik/Prosaanalyse

Erzählperspektiven, erlebte Rede, Rahmenerzählung, Novelle versus Roman, from Goethe and Kafka to contemporary Gegenwartsliteratur.

Study emphasis ~12%

Sprachreflexion und Sprachgeschichte

Kommunikationsmodelle (Bühler, Schulz von Thun, Watzlawick), Sprachwandel, Sprachvarietäten and Sprache-Denken-Wirklichkeit.

Study emphasis ~10%

Rhetorische und stilistische Mittel

Metapher, Anapher, Antithese, Chiasmus, Hyperbel, Personifikation, Ellipse, Oxymoron, Parallelismus.

Study emphasis ~10%

Erörterung und materialgestütztes Schreiben

lineare versus dialektische Erörterung, Argumenttypen, Materialdossier-based Zieltexte and Operatoren.

Preparing for the Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur German Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: Subject performance is reported on the 0–15 Punkte scale (Note 1 = 15–13 Punkte, Note 6 = 0 Punkte). The Gesamtqualifikation requires at least 200 of a possible 600 Punkte in Block I from the Kurshalbjahresergebnisse (§38 Oberstufenverordnung) and at least 100 of a possible 300 Punkte in Block II from the five Prüfungsfächer/-elemente in vierfacher Wertung (§39), with no element scored 0, at least 4 Punkte in each element and at least 20 Punkte in vierfacher Wertung in three or more elements including one auf erhöhtem Anforderungsniveau. The 900-point maximum is converted to the Abitur-Durchschnittsnote via the national KMK table.
  • Assessment: Official written Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur examination in Deutsch, sat either as Leistungsfach (erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau) or Grundfach (grundlegendes Anforderungsniveau); Deutsch can also be taken as an oral Prüfungsfach. Both niveaus receive four Themen built on texts the candidate has generally not seen before (up to roughly 1,500 words for textbezogene Aufgaben, up to roughly 2,000 words for the materialgestützte Aufgabe); the candidate selects and confirms exactly one Thema by ticking a box and signing. Because Sachsen-Anhalt leaves the choice of literary class texts to individual Fachkonferenzen and teachers within the Fachlehrplan's gattungs- and literaturgeschichtlichen Rahmen, the exam deliberately omits any Aufgabenart requiring knowledge of one shared, centrally prescribed literary work. This 100-question bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation only — it does not reproduce the German-language free-response format.
  • Time limit: Written: 255 minutes at grundlegendem Anforderungsniveau and 315 minutes at erhöhtem Anforderungsniveau, both figures including Auswahlzeit, under the annually re-issued 'Hinweise zur Abiturprüfung Deutsch' and the RdErl. 'Vorbereitung und Durchführung der Abiturprüfung.' Only a Wörterbuch der deutschen Rechtschreibung conforming to the amtliches Regelwerk is permitted as an aid. In 2026 the written Deutsch date was Tuesday 28 April 2026 (Nachtermin Wednesday 3 June 2026); mündliche Prüfungen began 11 May 2026 and Zeugnisse were issued by 3 July 2026.
  • Exam / certification fees: No exam fee for regular enrolled school candidates; the Abitur is a state school examination in Sachsen-Anhalt. External and Nichtschüler routes are handled by the Landesschulamt and do not carry a published Deutsch-specific fee. Official sources

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Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur German: Suggested Study Strategy

1Build one timeline of literary epochs from Aufklärung to Gegenwart with one or two anchor works and authors per epoch, since the Fachlehrplan explicitly spans that full range for its Gegenstandsfeld.
2Practise Gedichtinterpretation on real poems — always connect a named Stilmittel to its effect ('wodurch...') rather than just labelling it; graders reward the Zusammenspiel von Gestalt und Gehalt, not device-spotting alone.
3Learn the three Aufgabenarten families (Analyse/Erörterung pragmatischer Texte, materialgestütztes Schreiben, Interpretation literarischer Texte) and what each Operator (analysieren, interpretieren, erörtern, beurteilen) actually demands, since you choose only one Thema on exam day.
4Since Sachsen-Anhalt has no fixed Pflichtlektüre, make sure you know your own class's chosen novel, play and Lyrikreihe in depth — this bank builds transferable analytical skill (Erzähltechnik, Dramenaufbau, Verslehre) that applies to whatever texts your Fachkonferenz selected.
5Rehearse the Erörterung argument types (Sach-, Normen-, Erfahrungs-, Autoritätsargument) and practise weighing their relative Überzeugungskraft — this is explicitly assessed in both the Analyse and Erörterung pragmatischer Texte task types.
6Give the Sprachreflexion Gegenstandsfeld real study time (Bühler, Schulz von Thun, Watzlawick, Sprachwandel, Sprachvarietäten) — it is examinable across several Aufgabenarten and is often under-revised relative to literature.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the official Sachsen-Anhalt Deutsch Abitur exam multiple-choice?

No. The official written paper is a German-language essay Klausur: candidates choose one of four Themen and write an extended, argued response — analyzing a pragmatic text, interpreting a literary text, or composing a materialgestützter Zieltext. This bank is an English-language MCQ study adaptation for learning and checking the underlying content and analytical concepts, not a simulation of the official format or a substitute for essay-writing practice.

Why are the questions in English when the exam is in German?

This bank is a study aid for building factual and analytical command of the Fachlehrplan content in English. German literary titles, authors, and technical terms — lyrisches Ich, Personenkonstellation, Erörterung, Weimarer Klassik and so on — are preserved exactly as used in the curriculum, so you can carry the vocabulary straight into German-language revision.

Does Sachsen-Anhalt have a fixed Pflichtlektüre list for the Deutsch Abitur?

No single, centrally prescribed reading list exists. The Fachlehrplan sets a framework — texts and motifs from at least two epochs between the Aufklärung and the Gegenwart, a Lyrikreihe, and structurally varied epic and dramatic works — but individual teachers and Fachkonferenzen choose the specific class texts using official Lektüreempfehlungen. Because texts differ from class to class, the written exam's literary Interpretation tasks are based on texts unfamiliar to the candidate rather than a shared prescribed work.

Which content does the exam cover?

The Fachlehrplan Deutsch Gymnasium (Stand 01.08.2022) organises the Qualifikationsphase into five Kompetenzbereiche: Sprechen und Zuhören, Schreiben, Lesen, Sich mit Texten und Medien auseinandersetzen (literary and pragmatic texts, Lyrikreihe, drama, and media/Theaterinszenierungen), and Sprache und Sprachgebrauch reflektieren (communication models, Sprachwandel, Sprachvarietäten, persuasive strategies).

How long is the written exam?

255 minutes at grundlegendem Anforderungsniveau (Grundfach) and 315 minutes at erhöhtem Anforderungsniveau (Leistungsfach), both including Auswahlzeit. Only a Wörterbuch der deutschen Rechtschreibung matching the official spelling rules is an allowed aid. Exact times and the Themen/Aufgabenarten combination are re-issued every year, so check the current 'Hinweise zur Abiturprüfung Deutsch' through your school or the Bildungsserver.

Is Deutsch compulsory in the Sachsen-Anhalt Abitur?

Deutsch is one of Sachsen-Anhalt's three obligatorische Kernfächer (with Mathematik and Geschichte), with four Kurshalbjahresergebnisse required in Block I under §38 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 of the Oberstufenverordnung. Candidates must also include at least two of the three subjects Deutsch, Mathematik and Fremdsprache among their five Abiturprüfungsfächer, so Deutsch is very commonly — though not automatically for every individual combination — one of the actual exam subjects.

When was the exam held in 2026?

In the 2026 main session the written Deutsch exam was set for Tuesday 28 April 2026, with a Nachtermin on Wednesday 3 June 2026 for candidates needing a resit. Mündliche Prüfungen began on 11 May 2026 and Zeugnisse were issued by 3 July 2026, with roughly 5,600 candidates sitting the Abitur across Gymnasien, Gesamtschulen, Gemeinschaftsschulen mit gymnasialer Oberstufe, berufliche Gymnasien, Freie Waldorfschulen and Schulen des zweiten Bildungsweges.

Is there an exam fee?

No. The Abitur is a state school examination in Sachsen-Anhalt and regular enrolled school candidates pay no fee. Nichtschüler and second-chance routes are administered by the Landesschulamt and have no published Deutsch-specific fee.