Prof Dr Nanna Fuhrhop
Institute for German Studies

• Photos from the lecture
• Click here to open the fairy tale "How someone once wanted to steal from the FAS and only got himself into trouble".

To tell the exciting story of Harry Potter, the English author Joanne K. Rowling needed over 4,000 pages - but only 26 different letters. That's all the English alphabet has to offer and the German alphabet also consists of just 30 letters. Yet these few characters form the basis for a fascinatingly versatile phenomenon: writing. We encounter it in books and newspapers, on city maps and train tickets, on signs and ID cards. With its help, we can write essays and love letters, birthday invitations or text messages. Writing is the key to our world. But how did it actually come about? Is the shape of the letters a coincidence? What does writing look like in other countries, for example in China or Russia? You will find out this and much more in the lecture! Moderator: Anke Genius Wednesday, 26 August 2009
4.30 to 5.30 p.m.
Audimax, Hörsaalzentrum