I want to layout a page using LaTeX and distribute text snippets/blocks in predefined locations.

Something like this

+--------------------------------------------------------+
| +-------------+                                        |
| |bla  bla  bla|                                        |
| |bla bl ab lab|  +-------------+                       |
| |bla  bla  bla|  |bla  bla  bla|                       |    
| |bla bl ab lab|  |bla bl ab lab|                       |
| +-------------+  |bla  bla  bla|                       |
|                  |bla bl ab lab|                       |
|                  +-------------+          +----+       |
|                                           |more|       |
|    Ich und Du                             |text|       |
|    Müllers Kuh                            +----+       |
|                                                        |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

My guess is that I should go about this using a minipage or using boxes like

\begin{minipage}[b][2cm]{8cm}
    \mbox{more} \newline
    \mbox{text} \newline
\end{minipage}

Is there a tutorial or a 'how to' page that you know, that shows me how to do this - not a list all LaTeX idioms, I have some books for that. But my books are more focused on command lists, scientific publishing and math ..