• 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 examiner procedure via Stud.IP precedes the registration of the Bachelor's thesis at the Examinations Office. This means that you only register your Bachelor's thesis at the Examinations Office after the Institute has assigned your first examiner in a prioritised lottery procedure. This is where admission to the Bachelor's thesis takes place.
  
• Withdrawal from the preferred examiner procedure in German Studies is possible at any time without giving reasons. Simply unsubscribe from the relevant WPV-BA group and inform the office at of your withdrawal.
  
• A change of examiner in the current semester is only possible after the priority lottery procedure on 15 August 2025 if there are still free places in the WPV-BA group with the new examiner you have selected in Stud.IP! Please contact the office directly regarding a change.
  
• Withdrawal from registration at the Examinations Office is subject to the regulations of the Bachelor's examination regulations.
  
• Furthermore, you do not yet have to fulfil the requirements for writing the Bachelor's thesis required by the examination regulations in order to participate in the desired examiner procedure in Stud.IP. These must only be proven when registering with the Examinations Office!
  
• If you have taken part in the preferred examiner procedure for a summer semester, you must register your Bachelor's thesis at the Examinations Office by 30 September at the latest (respective registration period 01.04. to 30.09.).
  If you have taken part in the preferred examiner procedure for a winter semester, you must register your Bachelor's thesis at the Examinations Office by 31 March at the latest (respective registration period 01.10. to 31.03.)
  

• Therefore: All documents for the registration of the Master's thesis must be completed and signed (also by the first assessor) by the registration date, i.e. by 31 March (winter semester) or 30 September (summer semester) at the latest. Therefore, please ensure that you complete the forms and obtain the required signatures in good time (!), i.e. at least one month before the deadline.

If it is foreseeable that you will not be able to do this, you will have to take part in the preferred examiner procedure again for the following semester. By the time of the draw as part of the priority lottery procedure (note deadlines), you must therefore know for sure whether or not you will register the Master's thesis at the Examinations Office by 31 March (winter semester) or 30 September (summer semester) in order to participate again in the preferred examiner procedure for the following semester!

--> The Examinations Office would like to point out that a copy of the Abitur certificate must be enclosed with the 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 also register for the WiSe 25/26 after the draw with the first assessors in whose WPV-BA group there are still free places until 29 August 2025 (please note the following information on the accompanying course, 2nd indent, if it has not yet been taken).

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

• In which WPV-BA group have you registered?
• Have you already attended the accompanying course for the Bachelor's thesis or do you have to attend it in winter semester 25/26? Mrs Brören will then enter it.
• In which component are you writing your Bachelor's thesis? (This is not necessarily automatic, as some first supervisors are authorised to write first reviews in several components. The information is important for the registration in the corresponding accompanying course by the office).

(You also have the option of putting yourself on the waiting list with a first-time reviewer, provided there are still places available on the waiting list. However, there is a risk that you may not be able to join the waiting list in time if you do not withdraw from the WPV-BA group. Only one entry is possible in total, either where there are still free places or where there are still free waiting list places! All waiting lists will be deleted after 29 August 2025).

You cannot write your Bachelor's thesis in the current semester if there are no more free places in the WPV-BA group of your first supervisor.

If you realise after 29.08.025 that you have missed the draw date, please contact the office directly by email. It must first be clarified whether you can still be accepted and, depending on the time of your request, whether it is still possible to join the accompanying course at the time of your registration.

If you have any questions, please contact the office by email. Please include a telephone number where you can be reached in your email. Some issues can be clarified more easily in conversation.