Research profiles in the Department of German Studies

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

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

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.

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.

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