About the Faculty

Since July 2025, Dr. Jan Horstmann has been the new head of the Digital Humanities Lab in the Faculty of Humanities. In this interview, he talks about upcoming projects and his plans for the further development of digital humanities at the faculty.

In addition to the University of Hamburg, the Ministry of Science, Research and Equalities also honors particularly excellent university learning opportunities every year. This year’s awards took place on 21 July 2025 in the State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky. Seven University of Hamburg lecturers also received...

Many legal issues, for example the question of property, are regulated differently in different societies. Prof. Dr. Jonas Bens, Heisenberg Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Studies in Culture and Arts at the University of Hamburg, is investigating the conflicts that arise from such normative pluralism.

How do video games and TV series portray the Christian religion? Three students at the University of Hamburg are researching exactly that, and traveling to the world’s leading computer game trade fair in Cologne to investigate. This is one of 9 student research groups funding by Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence...

After successfully completing the tenure track evaluation process after six years as a junior professor, Prof. Dr. Elsa Clavé is now W2 Professor of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia (Austronesian Studies) at the Asia-Africa Institute since July 2025. In this interview, she explains how she has benefited from the...

The conversion of the former command post and bunker on Heiligengeistfeld has created a sensation. The New York Times, for instance, named Hamburg one of 52 places to go in 2025 when the green bunker kicked off. University of Hamburg students are now creating visitor information videos. Historian Prof. Dr. Birthe Kundrus...