Well-founded specialist Educational experience: Teaching comprehensive basic knowledge/methodological skills for working with the German language, literature and media; Individual specialisation through the choice of the German major subject (Linguistics/Literature Studies) and two minor subjects; Further specialisation possible within the major subject in the areas of ancient German literature, modern German literature and German as a foreign language; Teaching of key qualifications for humanities. professional fields within courses as well as through the required work placement; Close cooperation with non-university partner institutions

Studies may start in the winter or summer semester; Research-oriented qualification with individual subject-specific specialisation thanks to two freely combinable compulsory elective subjects worth 40 CP (Medieval Studies; Modern German Literature in Media and Cultural Contexts; Holocaust Literature; Comparative Studies; Text and Media Linguistics; German as a Foreign Language); Specialisation in "Holocaust Literature": Germany's only institution closely linked to the "Arbeitsstelle Holocaustliteratur"; Close cooperation with non-university partner institutions; From winter semester 2025/26, new MA degree programme in German as a Foreign Language/German as a Second Language

Institute partnerships with, among others, Hanoi, Kazan (currently dormant), Lodz; Numerous Erasmus+ partnerships, e.g. with universities in Finland, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic; Further cooperation agreements, e.g. with the University of Calgary and Eastern Michigan University; Participation in Cotutelle proceedings (including with Lodz), also through involvement in the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC); Comprehensive supervision for internat. students (including welcome events during the course of studies, specially accredited exchange seminars); Website: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb05/germanistik/institut/internationales

Very well-equipped specialist library with access to the most important German periodicals, series, databases and e-portals; Direct access to the university library; Didactic workshop with high-performance scanners and computer workstations; Central equipment pool for computer-aided teaching/learning formats

Research centres: Centre for Holocaust Literature, Centre for Media and Interactivity (ZMI), Eastern Europe Centre Giessen (GiZo); Current research projects (third-party funding): Library of Polish Holocaust literature, edition of the diary of Emanuel Ringelblum, Germanica from the 17th century in the university library in Lodz, staging of holiness in the context of confessional disputes, scientific edition of the works of N.L. von Zinzendorf, futures of philology in the media revolution, syntactic basic structures of new high German, German as a second language: Skills and needs of newly immigrated young people

Close cooperation with Giessen Literary Centre (LZG); "Ger.Magazin": Online/Instagram magazine with student editorial team and ongoing editorial projects