Method for monitoring vehicle surroundings of a vehicle combination, in particular a commercial vehicle combination, consisting of a towing vehicle and at least one trailer using a monitoring system having a camera, the method having at least the following steps: - defining a monitoring area as a sub-region within a detection region of the camera, the monitoring system only monitoring the monitoring area for critical objects which can give rise to a collision probability, the monitoring area being defined and aligned such that the vehicle surroundings are located, at least in regions, in the monitoring area and, at the same time, the vehicle combination is not located in the monitoring area in that the monitoring area is aligned with the vehicle surroundings to the side of the specific vehicle combination without the specific vehicle combination being detected, - for this purpose, a variable (α, δ, ω, L) characterizing the alignment between the towing vehicle and the trailer via a performed steering movement being determined, the characterizing variable being a steering angle (ω) or a steering wheel angle (α) taking into account a transmission factor or an articulation angle (δ) between the towing vehicle and the trailer, characterized in that - depending on the determined variable (α, δ, ω, L) characterizing the alignment between the towing vehicle and the trailer, a manipulated variable (β) is established, by which the monitoring area is rotated within the detection region and thus dynamically adjusted so that the articulated vehicle combination is again not located in the monitoring area; and - identifying, by means of image processing, whether critical objects are located in the monitoring area in order to avoid a collision between an object, which presents a risk and is located in the monitored vehicle surroundings, and the specific vehicle combination. - defining a monitoring area as a sub-region within a detection region of the camera, the monitoring system only monitoring the monitoring area for critical objects which can give rise to a collision probability, the monitoring area being defined and aligned such that the vehicle surroundings are located, at least in regions, in the monitoring area and, at the same time, the vehicle combination is not located in the monitoring area in that the monitoring area is aligned with the vehicle surroundings to the side of the specific vehicle combination without the specific vehicle combination being detected, - for this purpose, a variable (α, δ, ω, L) characterizing the alignment between the towing vehicle and the trailer via a performed steering movement being determined, the characterizing variable being a steering angle (ω) or a steering wheel angle (α) taking into account a transmission factor or an articulation angle (δ) between the towing vehicle and the trailer, characterized in that - depending on the determined variable (α, δ, ω, L) characterizing the alignment between the towing vehicle and the trailer, a manipulated variable (β) is established, by which the monitoring area is rotated within the detection region and thus dynamically adjusted so that the articulated vehicle combination is again not located in the monitoring area; and - identifying, by means of image processing, whether critical objects are located in the monitoring area in order to avoid a collision between an object, which presents a risk and is located in the monitored vehicle surroundings, and the specific vehicle combination.