Research profiles in the Department of German Studies
Professor Jan-Oliver Decker
Professorship for Modern German Literature and Media Semiotics
Research focuses in recent years have been:
- Transmedial storytelling
- Star images and fan cultures
- Children's and youth literature, young adult, all ages
- Analysis of digital formats in media networks
- Concepts of the person, eroticism and gender roles in the media
- Information and media literacy
Professor Hans Krah
Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Semiotics
Research focuses in recent years have been:
- Literature of realism, early modernism, synthetic modernism
- Narratology
- Privacy
- Multimodality
- Constructions of space and reality
- Popular knowledge transfer
- Textual anthropology
- Gender discourses
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Professor Markus Pissarek
Chair of Didactics of German Language and Literature
Research focus:
- Subject-specific professionalism research
- Evidence-based reading literacy research (support, diagnostics)
- Literary and media literacy
In addition, German didactics plays a key role in the third-party funded SKILL project as part of the Quality Offensive for Teacher Training.
Professor Julia Ricart Brede
Chair of German as a Second Language/German as a Foreign Language
Our research focuses on the areas of language in the subject, multilingualism and multilingualism didactics, writing and literacy, and the professionalisation of (prospective) teachers.
We use qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection and analysis to implement empirical projects.
Professor Andrea Sieber
Professorship of Medieval German Literature
Research focuses include:
- Literature from the Middle Ages to the early modern period
- Cultural studies approaches (reception of antiquity, gender studies, historical emotionality research, concepts of knowledge and non-knowledge)
- Media history and media theory
- Reception of the Middle Ages (film, Nibelungen myth)
- Medieval texts in German language teaching
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