Method and device for displaying operating states of units of a vehicle

A device for displaying operating states of units of a vehicle, the device comprising:

• sensors for detecting the operating states of the vehicle units;
• a display device for displaying graphics objects for visualizing the operating states of the vehicle;
• and
• a control device which is coupled to the sensors and by which graphics data for displaying the graphics objects on the display device can be generated,
• wherein, using the control device, graphics data which actuate the display device are generated such that a first graphics object is displayed with a representation of the vehicle in a first state which can be changed such that the vehicle is represented in a second state from a viewing angle at which the vehicle unit, and the operating state of which information is to be output, is arranged at the front in the representation of the vehicle, and a second graphics object is generated with a graphics representation of the vehicle unit, which second graphics object is displayed in the changed graphics representation of the vehicle such that the arrangement of the second graphics object of the vehicle unit in the first graphics object of the vehicle corresponds to the real arrangement of the vehicle unit in the vehicle.