Projects and Publications

1. Recent Book Publications from the Chair

Post, Söhnke: Biographie - Sprache - Didaxe. Kulturdidaktik bei Erich Fried. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2020 (= Gesellschaftskritische Literatur - Texte, Autoren und Debatten 5).

Behrendt, Renata/Kreitz, David (Hrsg.): Autobiografisches Schreiben in Bildungskontexten. Konzepte und Methoden. Bielefeld: wbv 2021.
Weitere Informationen zu dieser Publikation: https://www.zqs.uni-hannover.de/sk/service-lehre/stimmen-von-lehrenden/

Herz, Cornelius: Ziele des Literaturunterrichts. Eine quantitativ-empirische Studie von beliefs bei Deutschlehramtsstudierenden. Berlin: Metzler 2021.

Behrendt, Renata/Post, Söhnke (Hrsg.): Heimat in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft. Literaturdidaktische Perspektiven. Berlin: Peter Lang 2022.
Weitere Informationen: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1216436

Röhrs, Steffen/Post, Söhnke (Hrsg.): Versehrung verstehen, Fachwissenschaftliche und fachdidaktische Perspektiven auf physisches und psychisches Erleben in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Darmstadt: wbg Academic 2023. Weitere Informationen: https://www.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/shop/43696/versehrung-verstehen

Ryl, Lennart: Gamification macht Schule? Elemente digitaler Spiele im Deutschunterricht. Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, Diss., 2023, XIII, 315 S., DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/14388.

Herz, Cornelius/Köncke, Luisa/Andermann, Marvin (Hgg.): How to tell stories digitally (fast?): Digitale Perspektiven auf Deutschdidaktik und Erzählen. MiDU - Medien im Deutschunterricht. 6 (2024) H.1 https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/midu/issue/view/291

Herz, Cornelius: Flickenteppich-Lernen: Mit der intertextuellen Cento-Methode mehrsprachige Literatur selbst schreiben. Rezeptionsorientierung mit Regional- und Minderheitensprachen am Beispiel Niederdeutsch. Hannover: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) 2026. Link zur Publikation: https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/render/2d2420ec-0153-4e5b-a420-ec01539e5b08 

Andermann, Marvin/Theilen, Ines/Herz, Cornelius: Lyrics im Deutschunterricht verstehen und selbst schreiben. Zwischen Pop- und Hochkultur rezeptive und produktive Kompetenzen im Umgang mit literarischen Texten entwickeln. Hannover: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) 2026. Link zur Publikation: https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/render/7575ffbe-979d-4db3-b5ff-be979d7db397

Müller, Annabelle/Herz, Cornelius: Digitales Leseverstehen mit Lernlandkarten: Kunstgeschichten mit Kurt Schwitters und Käte Steinitz. Kontexte, Handreichungen und Informationen für Lehrer*innen.  Hannover: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) 2026. Link zur Publikation: https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/render/46b1a88e-ebaa-4418-b1a8-8eebaa541828

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Networking

2.1 KJLM-Dialoge


KJLM-Dialoge (KJLM = German abbr. for children's and young adult literature and media): Once a year, practitioners and / or teachers in the field of children’s and young adult literature and media share insights from their work (2018–2020 in collaboration with Lisa-Marie Stremmer and Darlene Buxinski; from 2021 at Leibniz University Hannover)
2018: Annette Herzog
2019: Franziska Gehm und Horst Klein
2020: Elfie Donnelly
2021: Lena Gorelik (hosted by Renata Behrendt)
2022: José Fernández Pérez
2023: Nina Simon
2024: research semester
2025: Florian Dietz

2.2 Specialist days – German Subject Conferences and teacher training

Specialist days - German Subject Conferences and teacher training: In collaboration with the Deutscher Germanistenverband (German Studies Association) within the section of Lower Saxony / Bremen, we have been offering teacher training from 2022 onwards.

2022
German Subject Conference on inclusion and the A-level-relevant topic ‘Woyzeck’ on 24 June
2022. Please refer to the poster for further  details.

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2023
A concise guide for teaching A-level students on gender-neutral language and Georg Büchner. Further details can be found on the poster.

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2024
A concise guide for teaching A-level students: On 3 June 2024, Alexander Košenina will give a talk on Heinrich von Kleist’s "Der zerbrochne Krug". Please refer to the poster for further information.

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2025
Lower Saxony-wide German Subject Conference at LUH: On 5 February 2025, the Chairs of Didactics of German Language and Literature, in collaboration with the LSE’s Centre for Continuing Professional Development, the RLSB Hannover and the German Subject Association (Fachverband Niedersachsen / Bremen im Deutschen Germanistenverband), are organising the German Subject Conference with over 170 participants having announced their attendance. Please refer to the programme for further information.

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2026
Lower Saxony-wide German Subject Conference on 19-20 March 2026 at LUH: The Chairs of Didactics of German Language and Literature, in collaboration with the LSE’s Centre for Continuing Professional Development, the RLSB Hannover and the German Subject Association (Fachverband Niedersachsen / Bremen im Deutschen Germanistenverband), are organising this year's German Subject Conference with about 150 participants having announced their attendance. Please refer to the programme for further information.

2.3 Further conferences and guest lectures

2022
International student exchange with conference on teacher training (in collaboration with colleagues from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas and the University of Warsaw; September 2022). Please refer to the poster for further details regarding the professional development programme.

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2023 
On 11 January 2023, a dialogue event will take place in collaboration with the Liberal Jewish Community of Hanover and Eva Thüne (Bologna) organised by Söhnke Post. Please see the poster for further details.

2023
On 12 June 2023, Andrea Rapp from Darmstadt will be speaking at the German Department on the topic of “Digital Humanities and Digital Literacy – with a critical assessment of ChatGPT”. Please see the poster for further details.

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2023
The Chair of Literature Didactics cordially invites you to a series of interdisciplinary workshop discussions on 30 June (developed in collaboration with Marlene Kowalski and Söhnke Post). Please see the poster for further details.

2023
Specialisation programme for teacher training: A guest lecture by Nina Simon will take place on 11 December 2023, followed by another guest lecture by Eva Thüne (with Söhnke Post) on 18 December 2023. Please refer to the poster for further details.

2024
From 5 to 7 February 2024, the Chair of German Literature Didactis will host the Winter Academy of the Low German Teaching Network "LeNie" organised by the University of Greifswald, which spans the region between Ghent and the Island of Rügen. Please refer to the flyer for further information(in collaboration with Johannes Krüger). Impressions of the Winter Academy can be found below (see photographs).

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Impressionen von der Winterakademie

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(c) Johannes Krüger
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(c) Johannes Krüger
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(c) Johannes Krüger
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(c) Johannes Krüger
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(c) Lasse Branding

2024
On 6 May 2024, Matthias Leichtfried (University of Vienna) will give a guest lecture entitled ‘Understanding hermeneutic AI? Hermeneutic challenges in teacher training for the subject of German.’ Please refer to the poster for further information.

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2025
On 11 December 2025, hosted by Söhnke Post and his Low German courses, different guests will discuss the entanglements in the fields of Sorbian and Low German Studies including Christiane Ehlers, Grit Lemke, Měto Nowak and Cornelius Herz accompanied by a screening of Lemke's "Bei uns heißt sie Hanka" (2023). Please refer to the flyer for further information.

2025 / 2026 
Jennifer Witte (Osnabrück) and Alicia Gauter (Magdeburg) will give guest lectures in the research colloquium on the topics of "Interdisciplinary literature teaching" (Jennifer Witte, 01 December 2025) and "Constructions of identity – the Low German theatre in Gladigau" (Alicia Gauter, 19 January 2026).

2026
An interdisciplinary international workshop on minority and regional languages and cultures will take place on 27 April 2026. Further information can be found in the following pdf.