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Foreign language teaching represents a place that combines linguistic and cultural learning. The Alps as a culturally diverse living space are suitable as a topic for culturally reflective teaching. The focus of the paper is to explore how the concepts of Places of Memory (Erinnerungsorte) and Patterns of Interpretation (Deutungsmuster) can be used inclusively in teaching German as a foreign language. After an introduction of the two concepts, considerations of compatibility and didactic potential are made. This is followed by a presentation of the two concepts using the Alps as an example. On the one hand it is about life in mountain villages and cultural identity, on the other hand it is about traditional costume. The goal of the exercises is a critical examination from different perspectives. Specifically, they aim at providing access to Patterns of Interpretation as well as the development of discourse competence and symbolic competence for orientation in official German-speaking regions and, beyond that, one's own positioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]