This article is devoted to analyse the stylistic characteristics of the verbal innovations taken from the German magazines. Each functional style has its own special features. Stylistic peculiarities of the modern German journalism consist in the evaluative connotation, in the metaphorical usage of the verbs and in the usage of grammar categories of the verbs. The evaluative connotation can beshown in semantics of the whole word as well as in its components. There are 27 evaluative models and only 3 of them are not active. The metaphorical sense of the innovations lies in the usage of the verbs in the fi gurative meaning, in the usage of the lexical items in the unusual communicative situation and in the obtaining of new shades of meaning. The grammatical peculiarities of the journalistic style consist in the digression of the grammar rules and norms of German in the usage of such categories as person, number, tense, voice and mood.