News published by the University of Klagenfurt concerning the Department of German Studies
The Senegalese literary scholar Mbagnick Sene discovered the works of Franz Innerhofer, Thomas Mann, Peter Handke, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Josef Winkler and Thomas Bernhard in his home country. Today, he is fascinated by identity, politics and the relationship between Africa and Europe in his research on transcultural literary studies.
Luka Plevnik was Carinthian champion in freeskiing (winter season 16/17) and lives by the motto: Why boring when it can be exciting? The German Studies student comes from Josipdol, a small village near Maribor. He fell in love with Klagenfurt during a semester abroad and decided to stay. Since then, he has been studying the master’s programme German Studies and uses the cities location not only to pursue his favourite winter sports, but also to go hiking or travel through the Alps-Adriatic region. In this interview, he tells us why he finds the German language so exciting and why he has had to laugh out loud several times in the library at night.
Mnemotechniken, also das Wissen darüber, wie man das Gedächtnis möglichst zuverlässig für das Behalten vieler Inhalte nutzt, gibt es schon seit der Antike. Angelika Kemper, Forscherin am Institut für Germanistik, erklärt im Gespräch mit ad astra, in welchen Kontexten die Gedächtnistechniken entstanden sind und wie sie bis heute fortwirken.
Forensische Linguistik ist ein Spezialgebiet der Germanistin Ulrike Krieg-Holz. Sie analysiert Texte von Erpressern und Drohbriefschreibern und baut ein neues Referenzkorpus auf. Ihre Forschungsergebnisse kommen auch der Kriminalistik zugute.
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