Wide range of courses in the departments of German Linguistics, Modern German Literature and German Medieval Studies; Teachers are qualified in university teaching through internal continuing education courses; commendation of teaching staff with university teaching prizes for teaching concepts; very well-equipped reference library with over 150,000 media items; group rehearsal room, tutorials for introductory sessions; The teaching is supplemented by external practicals, guest lectures and partnerships with houses of literary, theatres and other literary institutions

Numerous ERASMUS partnerships; very good international connections of teaching staff to other European and non-European research institutions (German Linguistics: e.g. Sweden, Finland; the Netherlands; Italy; Switzerland; Luxembourg; Literary Studies: e.g. United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia, India, China).

PC workstations in the library, practical rooms with multimedia equipment, linguistics lab for digital processing of audio and video data.

Numerous third-party-funded projects in the form of individual projects on Linguistic Variation, Language and Cognition, Literature of the Late 18th Century and Classical Modern Literature; Participation in Collaborative Research Centres "948: Heroes, Heroizations, Heroisms" and "1015: Vacancy. Concepts, rooms, figures" and linguistic and literary research graduate college; Alexander von Humboldt institute partnership with St. Petersburg to "Turgenev's European networks"

Creative writing offers; Variety of student theatre groups (e.g. ‘Laut + Lyrik’) to practice creative-performative techniques in the transmission of literature