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Cooperation with Ghana – Shared Projects for the Internationalization of Teacher Education
In December, the Faculty of Arts and the Center for Teacher Training and Education Research (ZeLB) at the University of Potsdam signed a memorandum of... more
Love in middle high german – How medieval courtly love poetry provided knowledge about courting
When you open the door to Katharina Philipowski’s office, you seem to enter into a different time. Early modern portraits and reproductions of... more
The better half – Female writers and the „writing couple“
In literature, so-called “writing couples” have attracted a lot of interest for decades. Literary scholar Hannah Gerlach offers the first... more
“The struggle for new technologies and old prestige” – talking about books, technology and the role of digital humanities in the 21st century
The humanities love the book. And the book loves the humanities. But since the digital has entered culture and science, YouTube and Netflix... more
The Eulenspiegel of the Mark – Why a Brandenburg Prankster Could Turn a Literary Genre Upside Down
Pranksters who play practical jokes on others, make (almost) everyone laugh, and get away with it, are universally known. That there is someone else... more
Testing the Limits – A Special Research Area Investigates How Flexible Language Really Is
It’s Friday morning at a weekly market in Berlin. Those who visit the Maybachufer market in the district of Neukölln are treated to a little journey... more