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.

On Saturday, 4 November, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the 30th annual conference of the Institute of History at Paderborn University will be held on the topic of "Fremd(e) - Faszination, Ablehnung, Anverwandlung".

The numerous contributions in the volume examine the relations of knowledge production from theoretical, historical, political and empirical perspectives.

On 18 October at 8 pm, a video will be presented at the Pollux cinema in Paderborn that was created as part of an artistic seminar for fashion textile design students at Paderborn university.

Paderborn University regularly recognises the top research of its academics. The Presidential Board has now awarded two young researchers a scholarship for their outstanding doctoral projects.

In the winter semester of 2023/24, the Institute of German and Comparative Literature and the Centre for Contemporary German Literature at Paderborn University invite all interested parties to a series of literary readings with discussions.