Hardship provision: Long-term illness
Hardship provision: Long-term illness
Summer semester 2026
If you are suffering from a long-term illness, please proceed as follows to register for German Studies courses:
- Please send in the period from 14.07.2025 to Fri, 22.08.2025 at the latest, i.e. before the start of registration for the courses, send an email to with the subject "Härtefallantrag" in which
- you informally request that the hardship provision "Long-term illness" be applied to you;
- you state your Stud.IP user name. Please note: this is not your email address. Rather, you will find the user name when you log into Stud.IP, click on "Profile" and then on "Personal details". It has the form of "EMustermann" or "EMustermann1". The user name is required so that we can clearly identify you in Stud.IP.
- Attach a file to this email with a scanned or photographed current doctor's certificate of illness stating the duration(The doctor's certificate must state that you have to accept considerable restrictions in attending courses due to your illness and in what form. The certificate must not be older than 6 months, in the case of chronic illnesses [if this is clearly stated on the certificate] not older than 3 years). The submitted certificates will of course be treated confidentially and will be destroyed immediately upon receipt.
- Please note: Incomplete and late proposals cannot be considered!
- If you do not wish to send your documents by email, please mention this briefly in the email. We will then arrange a personal appointment with you.
Otherwise, enrol for the German Studies courses as normal(see notes here). You will be included in a list in Stud.IP that is not visible to the outside world and this will be added to the registration procedure so that your enrolment requests (see description of registration procedure) are given top priority.
Please only attach the above-mentioned documents to your proposal. The submission of your preferred courses has become obsolete with the new procedure!
A new proposal must be submitted for each semester!
Please note:
There is no general entitlement to consideration of the hardship application; it depends, among other things, on the available capacities in the courses.
The application applies to German Studies courses that take place in the degree programmes offered by the subject. For other subjects, please enquire about the regulations in the respective subject or School. (All relevant information for the educational science modules in the PB can be found at https://uol.de/fk1/studium/bildungswissenschaftliches-curriculum/organisation-der-module.