Facultyof Humanities

Using funds from the Karl H. Ditze Foundation, the Faculty of Humanities awards one-time mobility grants for semesters abroad or other study-related stays abroad, as well as grants to support the exam period. The application deadline is June 24, 2026.

Hamburg’s most famous street is celebrating its 400th anniversary. In this interview, Dr. Dirk Brietzke, a research associate at the Center for Hamburg History within the Department of History, discusses the history of the Reeperbahn—a place caught between prostitution, world-famous music clubs, and organized crime.

For centuries, plaster casts of statues and other ancient sculptures have been an integral part of Art History and archaeological research. The University of Hamburg owns an extensive collection—and is now lending some of the pieces to the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Prof. Dr. Fanny Opdenhoff and Prof. Dr. Christof Berns from the...

Since April 1, 2026, Prof. Dr. Hilke Marit Berger has held a professorship in Digital Cultures and Imaginative Intelligence in the Department of Philosophy, Institute for Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Every year, numerous new researchers join the University of Hamburg. In this series, we introduce them and their fields of research. This time: cultural studies scholar Hilke Marit Berger.

As one of the equity and diversity measures of the Faculty of Humanities, a German language course is offered for early career researchers at the faculty with little prior knowledge of German. It takes place Tuesdays, 16:15 – 19:30 at Warburgstraße 26, Room 2002 (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures / Cluster of...