• 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, based on content criteria and taking into account the requirement that one of the two assessors must belong to the group of university lecturers.

• 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 him/her also sign the registration form if the second assessor's signature is required on the current form.
  
  *Note: If you have any questions regarding the admission of your Master'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 Master’s thesis with the Examinations Office. This means that you should only register your Master’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 Master’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-MA 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-MA 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 regulations set out in the M.Ed. or M.A. examination regulations.
  
• Furthermore, to take part in the preferred supervisor selection process via Stud.IP, you do not yet need to meet the requirements for writing your Master’s thesis as set out in the examination regulations. Proof of these requirements must only be provided when registering with the Examinations Office!
  

• If you have taken part in the ‘choose-your-supervisor’ procedure for a summer semester, you must register your Master’s thesis with the Examinations Office by 30 September at the latest (the relevant registration period is 1 April to 30 September).
  If you have taken part in the preferred supervisor selection process for a winter semester, you must register your Master’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 first supervisor) by the registration deadline, i.e. no later than 31 March (winter semester) or 30 September (summer semester). Please therefore ensure that you complete the forms and obtain the necessary signatures in good time (!), i.e. at least 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!

• The subject-specific appendices for German Studies for the M.Ed. Gym, GH, R, state:
  Students should choose a subject area for their Master's thesis that they have not already dealt with in their German Studies Bachelor's thesis. Subject areas are: Literary studies, linguistics, medieval studies, German as a foreign language, specialised didactics, Low German.
• Please note: KJL is not a separate component. KJL is part of literary studies. Students who have written their Bachelor's thesis in KJL have therefore written it in the Literary Studies component!
• For students who started their Master's degree programme in winter semester 21/22 or later, the following also applies:
  • Media Studies is not a separate component. Media Studies is part of Literary Studies. So if you wrote your Bachelor's thesis in Media Studies, you wrote it in the Literary Studies component.

If you have any questions, please contact the by email. Please include a telephone number where you can be reached, as some issues are easier to resolve by telephone.

Since it can be assumed that you are writing your Master's thesis in the GFL/German as a foreign language component, please include all (!) examiners who have a first reviewer authorisation in the cross table - i.e. all examiners with an 'x' in the column "Master's thesis module, GFL/German as a foreign language component" in the lottery procedure in Stud.IP in your priority list in order to increase your chances of finding a first reviewer from this component.

You can also register for a WPV-MA group after the draw. If the accompanying courses have already started, it must first be clarified, among other things, whether it is still possible to join the accompanying course at the time of your registration.

If you realise that you have missed the draw date, please contact the office directly by email with the following information.

• Which WPV-MA event would you like to register for?
• Have you already attended the accompanying course for your Master's thesis or do you still need to attend it? If the courses have already started in the semester in question, you must first clarify whether it is still possible to join the accompanying course.
• In which component are you writing your Master's thesis? (This is not necessarily automatic, as some first supervisors are authorised to write first reviews in several components. This information is important for registration in the corresponding accompanying course).

You cannot write your Master's thesis in the current semester with first supervisors in whose WPV-MA group there are no more free places.