In the winter semester 2023/24, the poet and essayist Jan Wagner will take over the 42nd Paderborn Guest Lectureship for Writers.

The Paderborn Faculty of Arts and Humanities regularly offers its students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of history and the culture of remembrance

"Vielfalt stärken" is a benefit for the region

The pop-up event "Uni Underground", organised by the faculties of Paderborn University, gave pupils from the region the opportunity to get a taste of university life for three days.

The fourth "Paderborn Pop Lectureship" will be held in the winter semester 2023/24 by media manager and Grimme award winner Prof. Dieter Gorny.

Jean-Paul Couasnon passed away on 8 November at the age of 80. As a great friend of the "franco allemand", he showed exceptional commitment to Franco-German relations from an early age, particularly to the twinning of the cities of Le Mans and Paderborn.

Musicals, operas, operettas or revues - more than 1,400 amateur music theatres (AMT) provide entertainment with their performances in the German-speaking cultural area. In a new database on AMT, interested parties can now find all the information they need at a glance.

Change in the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Cultural Studies.

With the filling of the last Vice-Dean's office in the Faculty Council on 18 October, the new Dean's Office of the Faculty of Cultural Studies is complete for the term 2023 to 2027 and has taken up its official duties.

Every year, about 7,500 titles appear on the German-language children's and youth book market. The German Youth Literature Award offers help with orientation. Prof. Dr. Iris Kruse, Institute for German and Comparative Literature at the University of Paderborn, is the chairperson of the jury of critics who awarded outstanding works of children's and young people's literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 20 October. The prize, which is endowed…

In November, the Institute for German and Comparative Literature and the Centre for Contemporary German Literature at Paderborn University cordially invite all interested parties to further literary readings by well-known authors.

Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of the country in the north of Belgium, is an important economic, cultural, political and knowledge hub in the centre of Europe.

On Sunday, 22 October, the exhibition "Daring Visions - George Minne and Léon Spilliaert. From Symbolism to Expressionism." Also included are six museum suitcases from Paderborn university.