About the Faculty

For international researchers at the Faculty of Humanities, a German Language Course is offered Tuesdays, 14:00 – 17:00 at Warburgstraße 28, Room 3015 (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures / Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts'), beginning on October 14, 2025. The course is primarily aimed at...

On July 16, 2025, the Faculty Council re-elected Prof. Dr. Silke Segler-Meßner as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. Her second term of office will begin on March 1, 2026, and will again last five years. In this interview, she talks about her motivation, the challenges ahead, and her goals for the next five years.

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...