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``Objektorientierte Datenbanksysteme -- Ein Praktikum'' contributes to filling a gap on the market. The book helps to understand how to develop object-oriented database applications. In contradiction to a lot of other books the concepts do not stand in the foreground, but their use. The explanations quickly become concrete. A continuous example (administration of a university department) enables the reader to follow the whole development trajectory of a database application. \(\text{O}_2\) is used as the object-oriented database management system (OODBMS). Most chapters finish with exercises. Example solutions for the exercises are introduced in the appendix. Cross-references support the reader in easily finding questions and solutions that belong to each other. The content of the book is as follows: After the introduction, the basic terms and concepts of OODBMS's are presented. Chapter 3 gives a short sketch on the process of developing an object-oriented database application. References to literature at the end of chapters 2 and 3 help the reader to verify his/her knowledge of the basis of OODBMS's. In chapter 4 the material starts to become concrete: Schema definition in \(\text{}O_2\text{C}\), data manipulation in \(\text{O}_2\text{C}\), an example of the development of an object-oriented application, an analysis of the example ``Administration of an institute'', conceptual design, logical design, the query language OQL, implementation of user-interfaces with O\(_2\) data protection and authorization control and ways to increase performance. A to the point summary on advantages and shortcomings of object-oriented database application development, is given in chapter 14. The appendix contains the example solutions, an introduction to the C programming language, a list of figures, a list of syntax definitions, a list of examples, bibliography, and an index. The book upholds what the title promises. The reader gets a well prepared methodical and practical document which concentrates on the essentials, and which clarifies the potentials of a promising, yet still limited, technology. The book is written in German. It is recommended not only to students of Computer-Science and Informatics but also to those persons who need a first and solid insight in object-oriented database application development. Surely, it is also valuable for the teaching staff of universities and high schools, who plan to realize or to expand a practical on object-oriented database systems.