German Language and Literature, Department
Fakultät für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Fakultät für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Germanistik
Kaiserstraße 12, Geb. 20.30
D-76131 Karlsruhe
Telephone: +49 721 608-2151
https://www.kit.edu
Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT
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Institut für Germanistik
Kaiserstraße 12, Geb. 20.30
D-76131 Karlsruhe
Telephone: +49 721 608-2151
https://www.kit.edu
Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT
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Basic information
- Teaching staff at the department
9
- Total number of students at the department
380
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
60
Teaching in core subjects
- German as a foreign language: 0%
- Ancient German Literature: 31.8%
- Modern Literature: 62.4%
- Linguistics: 0%
- Historic Linguistics: 5.8%
- Other fields: 0%
Support during the study entry phase
- Total score for support in the study entry phase
9/14 points
Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
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Further information provided by the department
Special features regarding teaching
Cultural-studies-based specialisation in ‘Literature and Knowledge’; Synergies with other degree courses.; Annually variable key topic areas (2021/22 NdL: ‘Salvation/Saviour’, Medieval Studies: ‘Perception and constructions of the Orient’; ‘Time and the narration of history’); created for the M.A. Master classes on the theme of the year, renowned intern. Scientific foundation,; Teaching head with Polish colloquium of KWU Bydgoszcz, Springschool ‘A medial view of the German-Polish culture of remembrance’ April 2022; ‘Karlsruhe Medieval Colloquium’, annual inter-univ. advanced seminars (6 locations); Research-based. classes alongside projects; regular guest lect.
Special features regarding the international orientation
Academic links with Beijing, Ontario (Kingston, CA), Bergamo, Bologna, Urbino (I), Klagenfurt, Cadiz (E), Ùstí nad Labem (Cz), Lille (F), Sousse / La Manouba Tunis (Tunisia), Cameroon; EPICUR participations
Special features regarding research activities
Specialisation in literature and knowledge; 2 DFG projects in medieval studies (‘Encyclopaedic Storytelling’, Edition ‘Barlaam and Josaphat’; Prof. Herweg); The Uncertain Knowledge of Literature: Director of the eponymous SNF-ProDoc () Prof. Bergengruen (KIT) with Prof. von Arburg (Lausanne, Prof. Schnyder (Neuenburg); DFG project specialisation programme "Aesthetic proper times. Time and representation in a polychronic modernity.’ Term: 2017-2020 (Prof. Bergengruen); HEIKA project on AI in cooperation with Prof. Kleinke (Heidelberg) and workshops on the subject of AI with Tongji University Shanghai, admitted Nov. 2021 (Prof. Böhn)
Other special features
The MA course can also be started in the summer semester
Further information on research activities
Further information about study entry phase
Website of the Student Council
online-application
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Last Update 2022: Data collected by the
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