The research-oriented and practice-oriented teaching encompassing all areas of German studies is characterized by digital components and innovative moments, some of which were developed within the framework of funded innovation projects (e.g. Medieval learning app with city tour). An additional study programme DaF/DaZ expands the thematic spectrum as well as numerous guest lectures, for example in the context of poetics lectures and public-oriented lecture series. This is supplemented by regular excursions, creative writing classes and public project presentations.

Due to the interdisciplinary specialist Master's degree in Culture of the Technical-Scientific World, which – building on the expertise of our faculty (German Studies, English Studies, Philosophy, History) – forms a bridge to the natural and engineering sciences at the TU, which feed compulsory courses into this Master's degree, the Master's degree programme has a strong interdisciplinary nature, which also extends to the courses offered in teacher training. In addition to practicals, research-based learning and other innovative teaching concepts (blended learning,; non-university places of learning) are given space.

The institute has several Erasmus partnerships, including with universities in Ankara, Bari, České Budějovice, Krakow, Naples, Stockholm and Turku. The academic staff maintain close links with German-speaking countries (e.g. the universities of Vienna and Bern) and with German studies institutes in many countries around the world (UCLA Irvine, Princeton, Toronto, Oxford, London, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Guangzhou, Daegu, Tokyo).

The seminar rooms on the humanities campus, which are used by German studies, among others, 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. Various electronic resources can be used via the university library, including subject-specific databases (author database, BDSL, Reallexikon). The institute has an appropriate licence (actionbound) for game-based learning.

Nature writing, landscape, geopoetics, contemporary literature (Röhnert); Female writing in Expressionism (Röhnert); Children's and young people's literature (Standke); Didactics of German contemporary literature (Standke); New edition and translation of the legend "Keisir unde keisirin" by Ebernand von Erfurt (Schindler); German as a foreign and second language with sustainability (Neef); Word grammar of German (Neef); Ethics and narration (Schöll); Edition project on female authors of the Enlightenment (Schöll).

Collaborations in research and teaching with other subjects of the faculty (especially English Studies, Educational Science and Didactics of Physics), with subjects of other faculties as part of the Master's degree course "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 (German as a Foreign Language/German as a Second Language study programme), the Braunschweig University of Art as well as with non-university research institutions (Georg Eckert Institute, Herzog August Library, Institute of Regional History Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum)