Verse Novellas - Medieval, rhyming, and worth listening to
Lecherous priests, cunning students, rebellious genitals—the characters in medieval verse novellas are extremely colorful. But unlike fables or fairy …
Spelling to the Power of Three – Punctuation, Reading Support and Reforms
Capitalization, placing commas, loanwords: Spelling is a necessary evil for many, a horror for most, and the subject of intensive research for a few. …
Ten questions for a book – “Educating Teachers for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship”
Ten questions for a book, posed to Prof. Dr. Britta Freitag-Hild, Stefanie Goertz, Prof. Dr. Isolde Malmberg, and Prof. Dr. Linda P. Juang, editors of …
Goden Dach, wie gait di dat? An online catalog at the University of Potsdam makes the surviving vocabulary of Brandenburg’s dialects publicly accessible
“Wist mir den Stieg ebber de Weesen?” If August Höhne, born in 1889, had asked for the way through the meadows in the broadest dialect, he might …
“I’d Rather Attend Lectures in the Afternoon Than Watch Netflix” – The Junior Studies Program attracts high school students from Berlin and Brandenburg to the University of Potsdam
Her schedule is full to the brim. That’s exactly how Maja-Jeanne Schmidt likes it. The 17-year-old attends the 11th grade in Oranienburg, is class …
Can Reading Give Us a Better Understanding of Nature? Literary scholar Sabine Röttig researches ecological children’s literature
Gundula Priebe is the only one who regrets that the century-old linden tree in her village is to be chopped down – in favor of traffic. Since the girl …
