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Whether you’re analysing everyday language, a tragedy or a modern novel, a trip to the library is essential. The German Studies programme doesn’t just involve reading ‘literature for pleasure’; it also focuses on academic texts exploring the historical, social and psychological contexts of language and literature, including in relation to modern audiovisual media.
In addition to the traditional, historical and systematic core areas of literary studies and linguistics, the German Department at Leibniz University Hannover offers specialised research and teaching focuses. These range from the literature of aesthetic modernism, through the cultural history of media perception and the performing arts, to the origins of contemporary language and language acquisition and teaching in multilingual contexts.