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The Faculty of German Studies and Arts
(Fachbereich 09 Germanistik und Kunstwissenschaften)
The Faculty of German Studies and Arts is one of the biggest faculties at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. It consists of seven departments, in which teaching and research are organized:
- Department of Modern German Literature (Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur)
- Department of Medieval German Philology (Institut für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters)
- Department of Media Studies (Institut für Medienwissenschaft)
- Department of Art History (Kunstgeschichtliches Institut)
- Department of Fine Arts (Institut für Bildende Kunst)
- Department of Musicology (Musikwissenschaftliches Institut)
At the Faculty of German Studies and Arts, research covers a broad range of linguistic and artistic areas. It is a leading center for research in:
- german dialects and language varieties
- communication and pragmatics
- second language acquisition and teaching (German)
- cognitive linguistics
- literature and media
- digital edition of German literature
- digital edition of middle high German literature
- medieval manuscripts
- audio-visual and digital media
- art history documentation
- early music, opera
Deutscher Sprachatlas, the leading research center in the field of dialects, nonstandard and regional varieties of the German language, is part of the Faculty. Aside from housing a dedicated and approachable team of researchers, it holds a unique and extensive collection of data and documents, a specialist library and equipment for data acquisition and analysis.