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. …
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 …
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 …
Did You Know … that kings and peasants dressed up as Robin Hood?
Bow and arrow, green clothing with a hood. That can only be Robin Hood, can’t it? In fact, the stories about the outlaw in the Sherwood Forest were so …
Scientific Hackathon on Environmental Data - Digital Humanities Explores Weather and Climate
What potential does environmental data offer for the Digital Humanities? How can digital methods contribute to the analysis of weather and climate in …
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 …
