Organisation profile

The institute is at an intersection between linguistics, didactics, educational- and cultural sciences regarding research and teaching. It is involved in several degree programmes, such as "Teaching and Learning, B.A.", "Master of Education (M.Ed.)", the "Leuphana B.A." and the major in cultural studies (M.A.). Scientific research and the promotion of young scientists are a central concern of the institute. Furthermore, students have the opportunity to complete their doctoral studies (Dr. phil.).

The institute consists of two departments, German literature studies and their didactics and German language studies and their didactics.

Main research areas

Research Activities

Literature Studies and their Didactics

Applied Linguistics

Didactics of Teaching German

Modern German Literature Studies

German Language and its Didactics/ Applied Linguistics

German Language and its Didactics for Secondary Schools

  1. Interdisziplinäre Tagung Philologie und Gesellschaft - 2015

    Steierwald, U. (Speaker)

    18.09.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  2. Internationale Sommeruniversität "Narrative Sinnbildung" 2004

    Albes, C. (Speaker)

    30.08.200410.09.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  3. Internationale Tagung „Der Sturm – Literatur, Musik, Graphik und die Vernetzung in der Zeit des Expressionismus“ - 2013

    Steierwald, U. (Speaker)

    14.11.201316.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. International Yeats Summer School 2012

    Albes, C. (Participant)

    29.07.201210.08.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  5. Interne Weiterbildung Projektmanagement - 2015

    De Carvalho Rodrigues, T. (Participant)

    13.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  6. Interpretation und Kontextualisierung. Interkulturelle Perspektiven​

    Gann, T. (Speaker)

    22.09.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Islamischer Feminismus - Internationale Annäherungen

    De Carvalho Rodrigues, T. (Participant)

    03.02.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  8. It’s all about engagement with texts – Empirical findings about promoting students’ reading comprehension by well-structured texts

    Schmitz, A. (presenter), Schuttkowski, C. (presenter), Gräsel, C. (Coauthor) & Rothstein, B. (Coauthor)

    09.07.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Jahrbuch der Karl-May-Gesellschaft (Journal)

    Vollmer, H. (Editor)

    20042018

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  10. Jahrestagung des Mercator-Insitituts 2019

    Neumann, A. (Participant)

    25.03.201926.03.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch