• The second assessor is determined by the first assessor in accordance with the Institute Council resolution of 14 February 2011 and in consultation with the Examinations Office according to content criteria and taking into account the requirement that one of the two assessors must belong to the group of university lecturers or be a private lecturer. (In individual cases, the responsible Bachelor's examination board may allow the BA thesis to be assessed by two full-time lecturers who are not members of the professors' group or private lecturers, BPO, General Part, § 22 (2)).

• At the latest when you have the registration form, which you must submit to the Examinations Office*, signed by your first assessor, the first assessor must inform you who the second assessor is. You then visit the second assessor during office hours and have the registration form signed by him/her if the current form requires this.
  
  *Note: If you have any questions regarding the admission of your Bachelor's thesis to the Examinations Office, please contact the Examinations Office!

• The preferred supervisor selection process, which runs via Stud.IP, must be completed before you register your Bachelor’s thesis with the Examinations Office. This means that you should only register your Bachelor’s thesis with the Examinations Office once your Institute has assigned you your first supervisor via the priority allocation process. It is there that you will be granted admission to undertake your Bachelor’s thesis.
  
• You may withdraw from the preferred supervisor selection process in German Studies at any time without giving a reason. Simply remove yourself from the relevant WPV-BA group and inform the administration office at of your withdrawal.
  
• Once the priority allocation process has taken place, it is only possible to change your supervisor during the current semester if there are still places available in the WPV-BA group for your newly selected preferred supervisor in Stud.IP! Please contact the administration office directly regarding any change.
  
• Withdrawal from registration with the Examinations Office is subject to the provisions of the Bachelor’s examination regulations.
  
• Furthermore, you do not yet need to meet the requirements for writing your Bachelor’s thesis as set out in the examination regulations in order to take part in the preferred examiner selection process in Stud.IP. Proof of these requirements must only be provided when you register with the Examinations Office!
  
• If you have taken part in the ‘preferred supervisor’ procedure for a summer semester, you must register your Bachelor’s thesis with the Examinations Office by 30 September at the latest (the relevant registration period is from 1 April to 30 September).
  If you have taken part in the ‘preferred examiner’ procedure for a winter semester, you must register your Bachelor’s thesis with the Examinations Office by 31 March at the latest (the relevant registration period is from 1 October to 31 March).
  

• In summary: To register your Master’s thesis, all documents must be fully completed and signed (including by your primary supervisor) by the registration deadline, i.e. by 31 March (winter semester) or 30 September (summer semester) at the latest. Please therefore ensure that you complete the forms and obtain the necessary signatures in good time (!), i.e. no later than one month before the deadline.

If it becomes apparent that you will not be able to do this, you will have to take part in the preferred supervisor selection process again for the following semester. By the time of the draw as part of the priority allocation process (please note the deadlines), you must therefore be certain whether or not you will register your Master’s thesis with the Examinations Office by 31 March (winter semester) or 30 September (summer semester) in order to take part in the preferred supervisor selection process for the following semester if necessary!

--> The Examinations Office would like to point out that a copy of your A-level certificate must be enclosed with your registration!

• Yes, you may write your Bachelor's thesis in WiSe 25/26 in any component, including language didactics or literature didactics.
  
• At this point, we would like to point out the following regulation of the subject-specific annexes for German Studies for the M.Ed. Gym, G, HR, whereby the M.Ed. examination regulations, which are the most recent at the time of your enrolment in the Master's degree programme, are always decisive.
  "Students should choose a subject area for their Master's thesis that they have not already worked on in their German Studies Bachelor's thesis. Subject areas include literary studies, linguistics, medieval studies, German as a foreign language, specialised didactics and Low German."
  • Please note: KJL is not a separate component. KJL belongs to literary studies. So if you are writing your Bachelor's thesis on the subject of Young Adult Literature, you are writing in the Literary Studies component!
  • Please note: Media Studies is not a separate component. Media studies is part of literary studies. So if you are writing your Bachelor's thesis in the field of media studies, you are writing in the literary studies component!

If you have any questions, please contact the office by email.

You can still register for the winter semester 25/26, even after the allocation draw, with the first-choice tutors whose WPV-BA groups still have places available, until 29 August 2025 (please note the following information regarding the accompanying course, second indent, if you have not yet enrolled on it).

Please then register immediately at with the following information, as the Stud.IP office is not automatically notified when someone registers late:

• Which WPV-BA group have you registered for?
• Have you already attended the accompanying course for the Bachelor’s thesis, or do you need to attend it in the winter semester 25/26? Ms Brören will then register you.
• In which component are you writing your Bachelor’s thesis? (This is not necessarily clear automatically, as some first assessors are authorised to provide initial assessments across multiple components. This information is important for the office to enrol you in the relevant accompanying course).

(You also have the option of joining a first supervisor’s waiting list, provided there are still places available on the list. However, this carries the risk that you may not be able to move up the list in time if no one withdraws from the WPV-BA group. Only a single registration is permitted in total: either where there are still free places or where there are still free places on the waiting list! All waiting lists will be deleted after 29 August 2025!).

First-time supervisors whose WPV-BA group no longer has any available places will not be able to supervise your Bachelor’s thesis during the current semester.

If, after 29 August 2025, you realise that you have missed the draw deadline, please contact the administration office directly by email. It must first be clarified whether you can still be admitted and, depending on the timing of your enquiry, whether it is still possible to join the accompanying course at the time of your registration.

If you have any questions, please contact the administration office by email. Please include a telephone number in your email where you can be reached. Some matters are easier to clarify in a conversation.