Introduction

The Institute for German Studies and Media Cultures focuses on language, literature and cultural studies from a historical, contemporary and didactic perspective.

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Profile

On the following page you will find all the information you need about the Institute of German Studies, which specialises in language, literature and cultural studies from a historical, contemporary and didactic perspective.

Chairs

The Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures is currently organised into seven professorships, which focus on the following areas: Older and Early Modern German Literature and Culture, Applied Linguistics, German as a Foreign Language, Digital Cultures, German Linguistics and Language History, Media Studies, Modern German Literature and Modern German Literature and Didactics of German Language and Literature.

Managing direction

On the following page you will find the contacts of the Director of the Institute, the Student Advisory Service and the Secretariat.

Institute for German Studies and Media Cultures

In the field of linguistics, its theoretical foundations and the various application-related processes and structures of the German language form a central focus. In addition, comparative analyses of written and spoken language from a synchronic and diachronic perspective as well as intra- and intercultural communication are central.

Within the literary and cultural studies specialisation, literary and cultural history from the Middle Ages to contemporary literature form the central focus alongside literary and cultural theory. An important focus is on processes of literary canon formation, its mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, which also take gender and media theory aspects into account.

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