The research- and practice-oriented teaching, which encompasses all areas of German studies, features digital and innovative components, some of which were developed within as part of sponsored innovation projects (e.g. mediaeval learning app with city tour). The additional study programme DaF/DaZ adds to the spectrum of topics, as do numerous guest lectures, e.g. as part of the poetics lectureship with gender profile and the public-oriented lecture series. This is supplemented by regular excursions, creative writing classes and public project presentations.

The institute is involved in several Erasmus partnerships, including with universities in Ankara, Bari, České Budějovice, Krakow, Naples, Stockholm and Turku, as well as a closer partnership with Nizhny Novgorod. The scientific staff maintains close links with German-speaking countries and with German studies institutes in many countries of the world. In German linguistics in particular, the department participates in the English-language scientific discourse with scientific partnerships (partners are in Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, the USA and Slovakia, among others).

The seminar rooms on the humanities campus, which are also used by German studies, are all equipped with WiFi, projectors and document cameras. The campus also has a central computer pool and, at faculty level, learning workshops with a wide range of technical equipment. The institute also has two Smart Boards. The university library offers access to various electronic resources as well as subject-specific databases (author database, BDSL). The institute has a license for game-based learning (Actionbound).

Projects with third-party funding: ‘MehrSprache2’ (Langlotz with other disciplines), ‘Von der Avantgarde zum Algorithmus: Automatisierte Kreativität in Literatur und Musik’ (Röhnert with other disciplines). Digitale Edition deutschsprachiger Autorinnen des 18. Jahrhunderts (Schöll), Database project on Medientransfer Film/Theater (Schöll), Manual on ‘Ästhetische Theorie und Geschichte der Poetikprofessur’ (Schöll), dictionary project: ‘Schriftlinguistik’ (Neef); Journals (‘Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift’ (Berghahn), ‘Euphorion’ (Standke), ‘Literatur im Unterricht’ (Standke))

Cooperation arrangements in research and instruction with other disciplines within the department (especially English langauge and literature, educational and didactics of physics), with disciplines in other departments within the scope of the Master’s degree programme ‘Culture of the Technical-Scientific World’, and in the context of the central research fields of the TU (mobility, city of the future), with the TU language centre (study programme in German as a foreign language/German as a second language), Braunschweig University of Art and with non-university research institutions (e.g. Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Institute for Braunschweig Regional History)