About the Faculty

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...

How does a sense of belonging develop at the university—and how can we shape it together? With our kick-off event, “ReAction – Building Belonging,” on April 23, we invite all students, faculty, and interested members of the community to the Audimax to explore, discuss, and experience the topic of academic belonging...

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch of the University of Hamburg has been awarded Germany’s most prestigious research prize. The professor of modern German literature received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for her work in the field of the poetics of knowledge.