The course "Working Techniques in Literary Studies" is a propaedeutic exercise in which students of German Studies are introduced to working in literary studies and the necessary working techniques using a manageable object of study as an example and then try them out in practice.
This course is the lecture "Death" in Modern German Literary Studies, which was held in the winter semester 2022/23. From the point of view of literary studies, death is, of course, a motif: characters die or are brought to death in novels, tragedies, and tragedy plays, characters take their own lives, death is feared or longed for, sung about and lamented.