The author performs a theoretical analysis of the educational experience in philology
teachers' professional training in Germany in the context of solving scientific problem of
literary competence development. Internal and external factors of this process have been
determined both by socio-political realities, economic, philosophical, cultural, psychological
factors, and the dynamics of the literary process in developed countries, content diversity of
literary studies, methodological, aesthetic, methodological factors of mastering literature
process have been emphasized. Particular attention has been paid to designing strategies
for studying modern literature based on Bourdieu's theory providing a detailed
understanding of specific contexts and holistic understanding of the literary field due to
metadiscourse analysis. Through the use of empirical data the process of literary field
theory establishing in the German literature study has been explained, attention has been
focused on reviewing the G. Grass' latest novel by literary critics under the influence of
external and internal factors of literary process development that specifies educational
process of literary competence development
