Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS) has enjoyed a tremendous increase of interest in recent years because so many teachers in high schools and colleges are finding that it reinvigorates their German programs. Some even claim that it has saved them. TPRS actually consists of two complementary pedagogical methods: (1) Total Physical Response and (2) Storytelling. Total Physical Response was developed in the 1960s and '70s by James Asher, a professor of psychology at San Jose State University, California, while Storytelling was created in the 1980s and '90s by Blaine Ray, a language teacher from Bakersfield, California. Ray used storytelling to supplement TPR and carry it into more advanced stages of language learning. The author hopes to contribute both to a better understanding of the method and to foster its wider use in German classes since there is so much promise and initial curiosity about TPRS. (Contains 24 footnotes. A sample of vocabulary lists from the first two weeks of instruction is appended.)