• Please refer to the subject-specific annex of the Bachelor's or Master's examination regulations that apply to you (M.Ed. G; M.Ed. HR; M.Ed. Gym; M.Ed. Wipäd; M.Ed. Sopäd; M.A. German Studies; M.A. DaF/DaZ). There you will find all relevant information for enrolment in courses.
  
• Please note the requirements for the curricular sequence when taking modules.
  Information on this can be found here.
  
• Here you will find summarised overviews of module allocation:
  • Primary school teacher training programme
  • Career goal teacher training for secondary modern school
  • Vocational goal teaching degree grammar school
  • Vocational goal: Teacher training programme
  • Vocational goal teaching degree Sopäd
    
• Students who began their studies before winter semester 16/17 should also note the information on the changes that have applied to all students since winter semester 16/17, which you can find here.
  
• If you need help organising your timetable for German Studies because there are overlaps or other problems, please contact the German Studies Office.

We urgently ask you to note this: The Institute for German Studies provides each and every student with a place in courses in accordance with the modules to be taken in the respective subject-specific annex (FSA) German Studies/German. However, the Department of German Studies cannot guarantee you a place in your preferred courses. If you have not been allocated a place in your preferred course or module, please switch to another course or module that you are allowed to take in accordance with the FSA that applies to you.

The allocation of places in German Studies courses is carried out in consultation with the Institute Director and the German Studies student body in almost all modules in a procedure that no longer requires students to be sitting at their computers at the start of registration.

Seminars, tutorials, exercises and colloquia are limited in number of participants in accordance with the quantitative teaching standards set by the Presidential Board.

We have provided detailed information on the enrolment procedure for you here.

Please read the information on the linked page and all the information on this page very carefully. Here you will also find a table with the exact registration times for each module.

You have been allocated a place on a course or module and are unable to attend the first session? Then please note the following:

In the first week of the semester, the lecturers of courses with limited attendance will check who is missing from the course without having at least contacted the lecturer by email and signalled their interest. These persons will be removed from the course.

The following applies to advanced modules: Students who are absent from at least one of the two compulsory components of an advanced module in the first session without having signalled their interest will be removed from the module. This also applies to students who are on the waiting list for a course from summer semester 20 in accordance with the decision of the Institute Council on 6 November 2019. (last Institute Council resolution on this procedure: 25/06/2025).

In addition, the rules for active participation according to point 2 (1) "Active participation (according to § 9 para. 5 BPO new)" of Annex 9, subject-specific annex German Studies of the BPO apply.

If you are registered for a course but are no longer interested in attending, please deregister immediately so that your fellow students can move up from the waiting list.

In the case of advanced modules, please do not forget to deregister from the associated exercise or the second associated seminar. Deregistration from the associated tutorial/seminar is not automatic!

Thank you!

It is not possible to swap places! With almost 2,000 German Studies students, we are unable to implement this. Therefore, please refrain from making such requests!

Waiting lists are set up for each limited-participation event, which are usually limited to 10 people. Experience has shown that longer waiting lists make no sense; they only raise hopes that cannot be fulfilled.

If you did not get a place in the lottery procedure, you can still register for courses that did not fill up in the lottery procedure until 19 April 2026. (Details on the registration procedure here).

Students who are on a waiting list may come to the first session of the course, provided they are on waiting list places 1 to 20, but must be aware that it will only be decided after the first session whether they will be allowed to attend permanently. It is therefore strongly recommended that you look for an alternative course/module in good time.

In the first week of the semester, the lecturers of courses with limited attendance will check who is missing from the course without having at least contacted the lecturer by email and signalled their interest. These people will be removed from the course or from the waiting list after the first session. The regulation on signalling interest therefore also applies to students on the waiting list (Institute Council resolution of 6 November 2019).

The following applies to advanced modules: Students who are absent from at least one of the two compulsory components of an advanced module in the first session without this signalling of interest will be removed from the module.

After the first session, students from the waiting list who have signalled their interest in the course to the lecturer once by email will move up to the vacant places in the order of their place on the waiting list, provided that there are no more cases of hardship to be considered (see top left). Afterwards, i.e. after the first session of the respective course and at the latest shortly before the second session, the corresponding waiting list will be deleted! Students who were on the waiting list will be informed by email that they have been removed from the waiting list. From the second session onwards, only those students who are on the regular list of participants may take part in the course.

Students who are registered for a course but are no longer interested in attending are asked, in the interests of fairness, to unsubscribe immediately so that students from the waiting list can move up. (In the case of advanced modules, please do not forget to deregister from the associated exercise or the second associated seminar).

Students who are neither on the list of participants nor on the waiting list for a course in the first week of the course because there are no more free places are not allowed to take part in the desired course.

If you would like to work alongside (!) your studies, please organise your working hours around your studies, not the other way round!

An academic appointment is not considered a case of hardship!

A long journey to the university is not considered a case of hardship!